First Steps
You can open a project's settings, and know why the control is missing or the save is refused.
**Project Settings** is where a project is renamed, archived, deleted, and where its people are managed. Everything that changes the project itself is here; nothing inside the project — no budget, no plan — is touched from this dialog.
The tooltip reads **Open Settings**.
**Only the owner can open a project's settings.** If the row's **Role** column says **Guest**, there is no settings control on it, and that is correct rather than a permission you can be granted. A project has one owner, and only they change the project.
You can still open the project and work in it. What you cannot do is rename, archive, delete it, or manage who else is on it.
**Saving needs a connection.** The project lives on the KOSMA server, so every change made here has to reach it. While you are offline or in local-only mode the controls are unavailable, with a tooltip saying so.
This is the same rule as creating a project, and it has the same consequence: a lost connection stops you reorganising your projects, and does not stop you working inside one.
**Changes are staged until you save.** Nothing in this dialog takes effect as you click. A rename, an archive, a guest added or removed — all of it applies when you save, and closing without saving discards the lot. That is deliberate: it lets you set up several changes and commit them together.
The name field carries no separate label — it shows the placeholder **Project name…** until you type. Edit it, save, and the new name appears in the projects list straight away.
**A rename touches nothing else.** The budgets, plans and cost control sets inside keep their own names, the project keeps its history, and anyone you have added stays added — so renaming is safe at any point in a production, including the common case of a working title that needs the real one once the production is greenlit.
**A project saved with an empty name becomes "New Project".** The field does not refuse an empty value and nothing warns you. That matters mostly because a list with two or three *New Project* rows is hard to work with, and the only way to tell them apart is **Created** — or opening them. If you find one, rename it here.
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