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Project groups

Organize your projects board into the columns that match your pipeline — create, rename, recolor, reorder, and delete the groups your projects move through.

Project groups are the columns on your projects board — the stages a job moves through, like Lead, In Progress, and Complete. Every project lives in exactly one group, so your board doubles as your pipeline. Foreman starts you with a sensible set of groups, and you can shape them to match how you actually run work.

Where groups live

  1. From the sidebar, open Projects.
  2. Make sure you're on the board — use the Board view toggle. Each column is a group.

Note

The List view shows the same projects as a table, where you can filter by Group — but groups are created and edited on the board.

Add a group

  1. On the board, click Add group at the end of the columns.
  2. Foreman creates the group and opens it for you to name and color right away.

Rename, recolor, or delete a group

  1. Click a group's header to open the Edit group window.
  2. Change its Name and pick a Color.
  3. Click Save.
  4. To remove it, click Delete.

Don’t see this?

Creating and editing groups requires project-group management access. If you don't see Add group or can't open a group's editor, your role can view the board but not change its columns.

Note

A group can't be deleted while projects are still in it — move those projects to another group first. And you'll always keep at least one group, since every project needs a column to live in.

Reorder your columns

Drag a group's header left or right to put your columns in the order your work flows. The board reflows to match.

Put a project in a group

There are two ways:

  • On the board — drag a project's card from one column into another.
  • On the project — open the project's edit form and pick its Group.

New projects land in your first (left-most) group automatically, so there's never a project without a home.