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title: "Projects dashboard"
description: "Find, sort, filter, create, and archive the projects you work on."
---

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# Projects dashboard

The dashboard is the workspace-level home for your projects. It is separate from
the project sidebar: use it to choose a project, not to manage a project’s
delivery work.

Every project belongs to an **organization** — organizations own projects,
not individual users. Access flows from the organization down: joining an
organization does not by itself grant access to its projects, and being
removed from an organization removes access to every project it owns. See
[Organizations, roles, and permissions](/studio/permissions) for the full
model.

![Heizen Studio Projects dashboard showing project cards, search, grid/list controls, active-project filter, and sorting.](/images/heizen-studio/home.png)

## Find a project

Use **Search projects…** to filter by project name. The dashboard can display
projects as cards or as a list. Use **Sort by → Name** for an alphabetical view
or **Sort by → Last Updated** to bring the most recently changed work to the
top.

The **Health** status summarizes the project’s sprint health. Hover or focus the
status to review the names and pause reasons of paused sprints.

Turn on **Active projects only** when you want to hide archived projects from
the working view. If the filter leaves the list empty, disable it or create a
new project.

## Create a project

Choose **Create Project** from the empty state, the plus button in the global
header, or the dashboard route. Enter the project name and submit. Studio
creates the project, then takes you to its Sprint Board.

## Switch projects without going home

When you are inside a project, use the project name in the breadcrumb to open
the project switcher. Search for a project and select it. On desktop, `⌘J` on
macOS or `Ctrl+J` on Windows/Linux opens the same switcher.

## Archive or restore a project

Project admins can archive a project from [Project Settings](/studio/settings).
Archived projects move to **Archived Projects** in the profile menu. Restore a
project there when it needs to become active again.

## Organization-level tabs

The dashboard sits beside four other organization-wide tabs:

- **Catalog** — reusable builds shared across the organization's projects. See
  the [Catalog guide](/studio/catalog).
- **Members** — every person in the organization, their **Owner**, **Admin**,
  or **Member** role, job title, and join date. Select multiple rows with the
  checkboxes to **Remove** several members at once, or use a row's role
  selector to change one person's access. Choose **Invite member** to bring
  someone new into the organization by email.

  ![The organization Members table with two rows selected, showing the "1 member selected" bulk action bar with Clear and Remove.](/images/heizen-studio/team-members-bulk.png)
- **Leaderboard** — see the [QA leaderboard](/studio/qa-leaderboard) across
  every project in the organization.
- **Settings** — organization name, workspace URL, logo, and the
  organization's [GitHub connection](/studio/integrations#github).

Project-level membership is managed separately from [Project
Settings](/studio/settings); the organization Members tab controls who
belongs to the organization at all, not who has access to one project. See
[Organizations, roles, and permissions](/studio/permissions) for how the two
combine.

## Link previews in chat

When you paste a Studio link into Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, or a similar app, the
preview card shows what the link points to:

- **A specific item** — wiki page, canvas, story, ticket, file, meeting, sprint,
  requirement, test plan, or catalog entry — shows its title and the opening
  lines of its description.
- **Any other page** shows the page name and project, for example
  “Backlog · Ontology”.

Anyone who has the link can see this preview, including people without access
to the project, but opening the page itself still requires signing in.

## How it works

The dashboard keeps the active/list preference and sort preference locally in
your browser. Project data itself remains scoped by the signed-in account and
the project permissions returned by Studio.

> **Use global search for work inside a project**
>
> The dashboard search finds projects. The global search in the header is for
> project work such as tasks, tickets, and other records; see [AI assistant and
> search](/studio/ai-assistant).

Source: https://docs.heizen.work/studio/projects/index.mdx