Projects

Watch this video to see how projects and permissions work in Miro

Projects are essentially folders of boards with the option to manage user access for a smaller group of people within a team. Projects are here to help you organize your boards and make them easier to find and share. In other words, a project is a group of boards that you can share with your teammates all at once.

Available for: Team, Education, Business, Enterprise, Consultant plans
Set up by: team members

⚠️ Note that projects are not available on Free plan. If you downgraded to Free plan, you cannot edit/delete your existing projects unless you upgrade.

⚠️ Projects can only be viewed and used by team members.

Projects overview

All the team's projects to which you are invited are listed alphabetically under the team name on the dashboard. Next to the name of the project you see the avatars of the project participants. Click a project name to see the project details.

Projects on dashboard

Project and board sharing settings

When you invite a project member, you can set their role (editor, commenter, or viewer) for all boards in the project at once. Their access rights to a specific board can then be increased via the board's Share menu: for example, a project viewer may be invited as an editor to a board located in the project. 

⚠️ Please note that the highest level of access granted (either at the project level or the board level) will apply for a given user. For example:

• if a board is located in a private project but is shared with the whole team, all team members have access to it
• If a board is not shared with anyone explicitly but is stored in a project shared with the team, all team members have access to it

Creating projects

Click the +Add button in the left sidebar to create a new project. Set the name for the project and feel free to add members and boards.

Creating a new project

Changing project details

Set up by: project owners, co-owners, editors

The creator of a project and the participants invited as co-owners and editors can invite other people and add existing boards to the project. New boards can be created by any participant. Only the project owner and co-owners can rename the project and toggle the Anyone in your team can view this project setting. 

Renaming a project

Adding members to projects

Set up by: project owners, co-owners, editors

Project members can:

• access all boards within the project, both present and all newly created or added to the project
• create boards within the project
• be notified of all changes in all boards within a project

The project invitation procedures are very similar to sharing a board. To add team members to a project, click the Add Members button in the project settings. Note that only team members can be invited to projects.

The option to add project members

Select members from the list and set the access level for them (editor, commenter, or viewer). Select Notify members if you need to send notifications. Click Done.

Adding projects members

Sharing project with the whole team

A project may be shared with the whole team in one click by its owner or co-owner. Open the project menu and enable Anyone in your team can view this project option.

✏️ Team Admins can configure default sharing settings for newly created projects.

Sharing a project with the team in one click

Reassigning roles and ownership and removing members

If you would like to change the participant's role or remove them:

1. Open the project settings.
2. Open the menu next to their name.
3. Choose the new role (editor, commenter, viewer, or owner) or click to Remove them.

Changing access rights of a project participant

Note that a removed member may still retain access to project board via email invitation or via team/Company/public access.

To change the project owner:

1. Open the project settings.
2. Open the menu next to the name of the owner-to-be.
3. Choose Is owner in the user's menu.

When you transfer a project to another user, it doesn’t change a board owner for the project boards. 

Adding boards to a project

There are several ways board editors can move boards to a project:

• to add several boards to one project at once, click the Add boards button in the project settings:
  
  Adding boards to the project using the project settings

• open the board’s information card and select the project to attach the board to:
  
  Adding the board to a project via the board settings

• on the dashboard, click the three dots on a board and choose Move to project:
  
  Adding a board to a project from the dashboard 

Please note that putting a shared board in a private project won’t make the board private — users with whom this board is shared will still be able to access it.

Moving boards to another project or removing it 

You can move a board to another project or remove it the same ways you add a board to a project. Open the settings and from the project names list choose another name or choose None. This can be done in two ways:

• from the board’s information card:
  
  Removing a board from a project via the board info card

• from the dashboard by clicking the three dots and choosing Move to project:
  
  Moving a board from one project to another

Leaving or deleting a project 

To delete a project you must be its owner. Open the project settings by clicking the project name and choose Delete project. Deleting the project does not delete boards within it.

The option to delete a project

All the other members will see the button named Leave project. The option will not appear if the project is shared with everyone in the team.

After leaving or deleting a project you will still have access on the dashboard to the boards shared with you via email or team access. They will be visible on your All boards page.

⚠️ After downgrading to Free plan projects are not editable and there's no option to create new ones.

Frequently asked questions

1. When I move a board to a project, does the board link change?
   - No, it does not.
   
   
2. Can I duplicate a project in one click?
   - No, this is not currently possible. You can duplicate project boards, create a project, and move board copies to the new project.
   
   
3.  Is there a way to archive a project?
   - No, at the moment, this functionality is not supported. Deleting a project doesn't lead to removing boards.
   
   
4. Can I share projects with people outside my team?
   - No, but you can share particular boards with people outside your team. Check out possible options here.
   
   
5. Can I create a link to a project?
   No, it is not currently possible.
   
   
6. How do I create a board inside a project?
   - Switch to the project on your team dashboard and click New board. Note that boards created from the All boards section do not fall into a project but you can move them later.