---
title: "Project Setup"
description: "A Project is a workspace for Datastores and Processes. It provides the business or use case separation within your Account. Assign Users to a Project in the capacity they need by assigning them Project Roles."
url: "https://eightwire.io/knowledge-base/project-setup/"
category: "Create a Project"
generated: "2026-09-16"
---
# Project Setup

> A Project is a workspace for Datastores and Processes. It provides the business or use case separation within your Account. Assign Users to a Project in the capacity they need by assigning them Project Roles.

## Create a Project

Navigate from the Dashboard to Projects and click +New

On the Security Tab, click +Add to select Users and assign a Project Role.

Click Next to go to the Basic Tab

![Create a Project (screenshot)](https://eightwire.io/_astro/project-setup-1.BzHDpayA_1N6PSi.webp)

Name the Project.

Provide an optional description (You can edit these fields at any time)

Click Create

![Create a Project (screenshot)](https://eightwire.io/_astro/project-setup-2.IWrJQQMO_19FKiC.webp)

## Project Dashboard

![Project Dashboard (screenshot)](https://eightwire.io/_astro/project-setup-3.DabG9u2E_ZRF70C.webp)

**Datastores** — create your datastores, display any external datastores.

**Process Groups** — define data transfer definitions.

**Users** — assign Account users to a Project.

**Audit** — report all activity in the Project.

**Settings** — set up Project level notifications - for example failed batch notifications.

**Tags** — define tags that can be applied to any object/column in your Project, giving them additional meaning.

> *A Datastore is unique to a Project — to use it in another Project within your Account, share it, or duplicate it.*

Now that your Project is ready to work with, check out the next steps: [Create a Datastore](https://eightwire.io/knowledge-base/create-and-connect.md) or [Assign Project User](https://eightwire.io/knowledge-base/assign-project-users.md)