🔁Inactive projects (Project simulation)

If you want to plan a new project in the background first - create tasks, plan resources and dates, run through numbers - create it as inactive. You can change the status at any time, even after creating or duplicating a project.

Typical use cases for inactive projects:

• Planning a project without notifying assigned people
• Simulating planning variants
• Comparing with active projects
• Pausing or putting a project on hold without archiving it immediately

Setting a project to inactive

1. Open the project
2. Open Manage project via the ⋯ Options menu
   
   
    
3. Switch to the Settings tab
4. Disable the toggle under Active project

Properties of an inactive project

Inactive projects differ from active ones mainly in their notification behavior - but there are also differences in the workload view and for costs/budget:

• Inactive projects are marked as such in many places
• Notifications: If participants are added to tasks or set as watchers, they receive no notifications
• My tasks: Tasks from inactive projects do not appear in the My tasks view
• Home widget "My upcoming tasks": Tasks from inactive projects are not shown there
• Workload: Inactive projects are not shown in the workload view - tasks from inactive projects therefore do not factor into capacity calculations
• Costs / Budget: Inactive projects are treated like active ones - budget and costs continue to be included in totals and reports. The portfolio filter (Active only) can be used to exclude inactive projects if needed

Reactivating a project

There are three ways to activate a project:

• Via the ⋯ Options menu in the project
  
  
   
• Via the light blue banner shown in every tab of the inactive project - click Activate project on the right
  
  
   
• Via Manage project > Settings > enable the toggle under Active project

Related articles

• Project settings
• Watching tasks/projects