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Create a project and add jobs

Written by the Jobivo team · Updated 2 min readMobile only

Start a project, put jobs into it, and give it a team.

What creating a project does

A project is a name that related jobs sit under. Creating one gives you a single page for those jobs, with shared dates, a team, a board and a timeline.

A project needs only a name. You can add jobs to it straight away or later, and a job can be taken out again without losing anything on it.

Where to start

Open Jobivo on Home and tap Projects at the top. Tap Add Project at the bottom right. New project opens.

Home with Projects selected at the top and the Add Project button at the bottom right
Home, with Projects selected.

Name the project

Type the Project name, such as “Mill Lane refurbishment”. Description is optional. Status starts at Planning, and you can set it to Active or Complete.

Under Schedule, tap Start date and Target date if you know them. Both are optional. The target date cannot be before the start date.

The New project form with Project name typed in as Mill Lane refurbishment, a short description, Status reading Planning, and a Start date and Target date set

Create the project

Tap the tick at the top right. If the name is missing, the form marks the field. The new project opens on its Jobs tab, with its number in the bar at the top.

The filled New project form
The new project open on its Jobs tab, reading No jobs in this project yet, with + Create job and + Add jobs at the bottom
The tick, and the project that opens.

Add existing jobs

Tap + Add jobs at the bottom. Add jobs lists your jobs by name with the customer under each. Tap each job that belongs in the project, then tap the tick at the top right.

Jobs already in the project are shown ticked. Untick one and save to take it out of the project. The job itself is not changed.

The Add jobs screen listing jobs with their customer names, three of them ticked including Replace hallway radiator for Harrison Lettings Ltd

Create a new job inside the project

Tap + Create job. New job opens with this project already chosen. Fill in the customer and the job name as usual and tap Create job.

A project's Jobs tab with four job cards and the two buttons at the bottom

Give the project a team

Once the project has a job, a Team card appears under its dates. Tap it to open Project team and tick the people working on the project.

Ticking someone puts them on every job in the project, and on those jobs' tasks. The row then says how many of the jobs they are on. Untick them to take them off.

A project's header showing the name, status, dates card and the Team card reading Assign
The Project team sheet with two members ticked and reading On all 5 jobs
The Team card, and the Project team sheet.

Deleting a project keeps its jobs

To remove a project, open it, tap the ⋯ at the top right and choose Delete project. Jobivo asks Delete this project? Tap Delete to go ahead or Keep to leave it.

The jobs are kept. They are taken out of the project and stay in your job list. The project's own files and drawings are deleted with it.

The Delete this project? alert over a project page, with its message about jobs being kept and the Delete and Keep buttons