Subprojects overview

Projects can contain multiple subprojects.

From the summary page for a project, you can manage subprojects with the following menu items that display when you click the Manage Linked Objects icon (Page with pencil and chain links image).

  • Add Project: creates a child project.
  • Add Request: creates a child project request.
  • Link Existing: creates a child link to one or more existing projects or requests.
  • Remove: removes existing links to one or more child projects or requests.

Note the following behaviors.

  • Security policies must be the same for parent and child projects.
  • The summary page for a project shows the links to all of its direct subprojects.
  • A project can have a child-parent relationship with either another project or a program, but not both. That is, if a project is linked to a program, it cannot be linked to a parent project.
  • After you add a subproject, you cannot change the security policy of the parent or child project; you must first remove the link.