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Terminate a Project
If you decide to manually end a project or a program, there are several actions you can use. The primary difference between these actions is how much access users have to data once the projecthas ended. Administrators can later restart or recover terminated project and programs.
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For information on terminating a project that has objects shared to or from PDM, see Deleting Projects or Shared Objects.
To terminate a project, use one of the following methods:
• Navigate to the project information page. From the Actions menu, select Suspend, Cancel, Complete, or Delete.
• Navigate to the Projects or Programs table. Select Suspend, Cancel, Complete, or Delete from the right-click actions menu.
Action
Description
Suspend
Remove the project from the active list.
• Automatically executed plans are moved to the Suspended state.
• Team members are allowed read-only access to project data and plan.
• Administrators, project managers, and owners can continue to create and modify project content and plan items.
Cancel
Remove the project from the active list.
• If the project includes an automatically executed plan that is in the Running state, the plan is moved to the Suspended state.
• In an automatically executed plan, in-process activities are marked as Suspended.
• All users are allowed read-only access to project data.
• Project managers and administrators can add and modify plan items.
Complete
Remove the project from the active list.
• If the project includes an automatically executed plan that is in the Running state, the plan is moved to the Suspended state.
• In an automatically executed plan, in-process activities are marked as Suspended.
• All users are allowed read-only access to project data and plan items.
Delete
Completely remove from the list of available projects and programs.
• Users, including managers, cannot view or access the project.
• Data saved within the project does not appear in search results.



Suspended, Canceled, or Completed Projects and Programs
Administrators and managers can restart a project that has been suspended, canceled, or completed by navigating to the project information page and selecting Actions > Start.
You can also navigate to the Projects or Programs table and select All Projects by State from the views drop-down menu. Select Start from the right-click actions menu.
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If a project is suspended, the corresponding plan is also suspended. When the project is resumed, the plan must be manually resumed in a separate action.
To automatically resume the plan, set the following property to true:
com.ptc.projectmanagement.plan.resumePlanOnProjectResume



Deleted Projects and Programs
Once you delete a project, you cannot restart it or access it, and it is removed from the Projects and Programs tables.
You cannot permanently delete all references to the project in the database. Instead, deleted projects and programs are hidden in the database until an organization administrator either restores it or permanently deletes its content.
To restore a project:
1. Navigate to Organization > Reports.
2. From the Projects table, select Deleted Projects from the table views.
3. From the right-click actions menu, select Restore to return the project to the active projects list. You can also restore deleted project information by saving it as a new project.
To permanently delete the project data:
1. Navigate to Organization > Reports.
2. From the Projects table, select Deleted Projects from the table views.
3. From the right-click actions menu, select Remove Content.
Once the content has been removed, you cannot restart the project. However, a row for the deleted project permanently remains in the Deleted Projects view.