KOS Developer's Portal

Project Management

A project is a collection of artifacts devices, run groups, images, hardware profiles, and releases. The project management tool enables admins to customize who has access to each of these collections—by minimizing the visible work in each project, keeping artifacts focused in one area, and implementing the lock feature.

The lock feature prevents people from disturbing static projects between engineering cycles, ensuring the integrity of the project’s state. Additionally, the project management tool allows for limiting vendor and consultant’s access to sensitive developments. The Switch Project UI lets users quickly switch between the projects that the administration has enabled for that particular user.

Project Management is only available to KOS studio admin user.

View list of projects

Login to KOS Studio, select Settings (in the upper right corner of the screen) > Project Management
Project management opens in a new window. Here you can see the list of projects available for your organization.
You can click on each project to view the details. Consider following :
1. Public Project: Public Projects are indicated by Public Tag on the project. The project details section displays a note saying all organization members can access the project.
2. Restricted Projects: Public Projects are indicated by Restricted Tag on the project. Users can be added or removed from the project’s access.

Create a project

Login to KOS Studio, select Settings (in the upper right corner of the screen) > Project Management
Project management opens in a new window. Here, you can see the list of projects available for your organization.
On the project management window, click on “Create new project”
Fill in the details about the project on the “Create new project” pop-up
1. Name - The project’s name should be unique within your organization
2. Description - Description of the project
3. Restricted - Indicate if all the organization’s members can access the project.
4. Lock - Indicate if you want to lock the project so that it can not be edited.
Click on “Create” to create a project

Edit a project

Login to KOS Studio, select Settings (in the upper right corner of the screen) > Project Management
Project management opens in a new window. Here, you can see the list of projects available for your organization.
Select the project you want to edit.
On the project management window, click on edit icon
Update the details about the project on the Update project pop-up
1. Name - The project’s name should be unique within your organization
2. Description - Description of the project
3. Restricted - Indicate if all the organization’s members can access the project.
4. Lock - Lock the project so it can not be edited
5. Hide - Hidden projects are not displayed on the switch projects screens, and this is a great way to block access until you are ready for other users to access them.
Click on “Update” to update project details.

Delete a project

Login to KOS Studio, select Settings (in the upper right corner of the screen) > Project Management
Project management opens in a new window. Here, you can see the list of projects available for your organization.
Select the project you want to delete.
On the project management window, click on delete icon [delete icon]
Delete Project pop-up displays, as deleting projects can not be reversed, user should type in the exact name of the project to be deleted.
If the project name typed in the text box matches with the project being deleted, delete button becomes active. Click on delete.

Consider the following :

Deleting a project deletes all the artifacts, devices, images, and all other project data, and once deleted, it can not be reversed.

Assign / Remove users to a restricted project

Login to KOS Studio, select Settings (in the upper right corner of the screen) > Project Management
Project management opens in a new window. Here, you can see the list of projects available for your organization.
Select the project you want to add users to from the list.
In the project details section, you can see list of users who have access to project.
For public projects, all active users within your organization have access and is indicated on the project details screen.
For private projects, KOS Studio displays the list of active users within your organization using Sharing Permissions section.
Here you can click on the checkbox next to the user you want to give or remove access to.
Selected users can switch to the restricted project via the Switch Project screen.