Initial setup of OpenProject for administrators

This section will guide you through some basic recommendations for setting up your OpenProject instance as a system administrator and for preparing it for its users. For the backend setup and initial technical configurations for on-premise editions please have a look at the respective section in the installation guide.

Before adding users we recommend to check and configure the following topics:

Topic	What to set up
Language settings	Set up available languages
User settings	Default user settings, user deletion, user consent
Roles and permissions	What users can do (Roles) and the permissions for those roles
User groups	Create groups that are linked to projects, with a role, and users
Avatars	Allow users to upload their photo or Gravatar
Calendars and dates	Default working days and time and date formats
General settings	Set host name, protocol and welcome text
Authentication	Set up authentication methods for users
Announcements	Set an announcement to be shown to users on login
Start page	Set up the home page, shown after login

If required, especially for on-premises versions, it might make sense to have a look at these sections, too:

Topic	What to set up
Configure outbound emails	Set up SMTP on the server to send email
Configure incoming emails	Receiving email by the server