System Administration guide

Welcome to the OpenProject System Administration guide.

In order to make changes to settings affecting your entire OpenProject environment, you need to navigate to the OpenProject administration.

If you are an administrator on your OpenProject environment, you can access the administration by clicking on your user Avatar in the upper right corner and selecting ->Administration from the dropdown menu.

Click on one of the categories in order to proceed with the configuration.

Overview

Popular Topics	Description
Users and permissions	How to manage users, groups and permissions in OpenProject?
Work packages	How to configure work packages, types, status and workflows?
Custom fields	Set custom fields for work packages, Spent time, projects, versions, users, groups and more.
Enumerations	Set enumerations, e.g. work package priorities, time tracking activities, document categories, and more.
System settings	Configure your system settings, e.g. a welcome text block on the landing page, display settings, email notifications, incoming emails, repositories, and more.
Authentication	Configure authentication methods in OpenProject, e.g. OAuth, OpenID, Two-factor-authentication, LDAP, and more.
Announcement	How to create a system announcement?
Design	Create your own design and make it compliant to your company’s Corporate Identity, upload logo and customize colors.
Colors	Configure colors used in the system, e.g. status colors, work package types, priorities and more.
Enterprise Edition	Upgrade your Community Edition to the Enterprise Edition and enter your valid Enterprise token.
Budgets	Configure your currency and create cost types in OpenProject.
Backlogs	Configure your backlogs settings in OpenProject, e.g. story types to be displayed in the backlogs, task types, and more.
Billing	Manage your OpenProject Cloud Edition, e.g. subscribe to the Cloud Edition, upgrade, downgrade, cancel, and more.
Plugins	Manage plugins in OpenProject.
Webhooks	Add and manage webhooks in OpenProject.
Information	View the latest system information status.