The PROJECT field is the child of the AREA field. This relationship is more fully explained in the page on Business Area lists. The default project is used as the default project for all layouts, fields and values within the entire project, and each of these objects may be inherited from the default project to other projects within the business area. Each business area has a minimum of two projects, the default project and a data project. The default project only stores default metadata for the entire set of projects within the business area, and never stores any issue data. The remaining projects may store metadata that overrides the metadata within the default project as well as issue data for that project.

By convention, the default project always has a value for the field PROJECT_ID of zero. When a business area is created, the first two projects are named XXXX_DEFAULTS and XXXX_DATA where XXXX is the name of the business area. When you are modifying the data for a project, there are a number of behavior setting values you can override. The behavior settings are default-wide settings; if you provide entries within the default project, the values become the values for the entire business area. If you provide an entry within any project other than the default project, then the value is only used for that project. The project-level settings that override the settings stored within the behavior settings are modified within the edit screen for any specific Project.  Use the list management utility, or navigate to the PROJECT field within the data dictionary and edit the project field which will store the values that override the behavior settings.

For email notification the list of behavior settings that you can modify is:

  • AD_HOC_EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS
  • AD_HOC_EMAIL_FROM_SENDER
  • EMAIL_ADMINISTRATOR_NAME
  • EMAIL_ADMINISTRATOR_USER_ID
  • EMAIL_FROM_USER_NAME
  • EMAIL_FROM_USER_ID
  • SUPPRESS_STANDARD_EMAIL_LIST

There is a further behavior setting that can be set at the Project level.  This is EDIT_TAB_TITLE.  By default, this system-wide behavior setting is:

ExtraView – $$ID$$

You may set your own template for the display of the title in the browser tab title by altering this setting, Project by Project.  You can include the following fields within $$ characters and the appropriate title will be displayed on the browser tab:

  • ID
  • ALT_ID
  • AREA
  • PROJECT
  • STATUS
  • CATEGORY
  • PRIORITY
  • PRODUCT_NAME
  • Any text field