Summary
The Projects page lists a workspace’s projects and is the starting point for everything you do with them: create one, import one from elsewhere, duplicate one to build on existing work. Each project carries a fixed identifier chosen at creation — the one field you cannot change later.
Creating a project
New project opens the Create a project dialog. The General tab asks for three things: a name, an identifier and a description; the Metadata tab holds the status, the badges and the version, which you can also set later.
Create a project
Set up a new research project. You can configure datasets and plugins later.
The name and description can be changed at any time. The identifier cannot — and it is the one point to watch at creation.
The identifier is permanent
The identifier appears in the project’s address and in its exported tree. It is set at creation and cannot be changed afterwards: 2 to 50 characters, lowercase letters, digits and hyphens. Linkr suggests one from the name; pick something short and stable — mimic-mortality rather than test-project-2.
Starting from an existing project
Starting from scratch is not always the right move.
Import
Bring in a project produced elsewhere, from an archive or a git repository. See Import and export.
Duplicate
Build on a project from the same workspace — useful to run the same analysis over another period or another unit.
An import reports what is wrong
An imported project may contain format anomalies — a broken reference, an unknown column. Linkr imports it anyway and tells you what it found, rather than refusing outright. A project to fix beats an import that fails without explanation.
Finding a project
As projects multiply, two mechanisms help.
- Search filters the list by name.
- Badges are labels attached to projects: a domain, a unit, a funding source. Written
Source::MIMIC, a badge falls into a category declared in the workspace settings and shows in two tones. - The status — Active, Completed, Archived or Draft — separates work in progress from a finished, shelved or not-yet-started project.
The list’s filter button combines both, and sorting is set in the same place.
Actions on a project
The card’s ⋯ menu gathers everything you do to a project without opening it.
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- Edit reopens the creation dialog, with an extra Attribution tab — the identifier stays greyed out.
- Export and Versioning lead to the project’s Versioning & export page, on the matching tab. See Project versioning.
- Duplicate creates a copy in the same workspace.
- Settings opens the project settings: its members, its folders, its deletion.
- Delete, reserved to the owner.
Deletion cannot be undone
Deleting a project erases its cohorts, datasets, dashboards and code. If that work has value, export it first — or better, version it.
Going further
- Your first project — the full walkthrough, from creation to dashboard.
- The data pipeline — how data moves inside a project.
- Versioning — tracking a project’s history and sharing it.