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title: Project Contacts
keywords: project contacts, contact management, project contacts field, client contacts, contact persons, contact details, add contact to project, remove contact from project, new contact, choose contacts, project stakeholders
summary: How to link contacts to a project from the Contacts field on the project page, including viewing linked contacts, adding existing or new contacts, and removing them.
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# Project Contacts

## What are project contacts?

Project contacts are the people at your client's organization who are involved with a project. You link them to the project so that everyone working on it can quickly find the right person to contact.

Contacts are stored in one central directory (see [Contacts](../clients/contacts-page.md)). Linking a contact to a project does not create a copy of that person — it simply adds them to the project as one of its contacts.

## Why manage project contacts?

- **Quick access** - See who to contact for a project without searching your notes or email
- **Shared information** - Everyone on the project sees the same contacts
- **Direct navigation** - Click a contact to open their details and the other projects they are involved with
- **Reuse** - The same person can be linked to several projects

## Viewing project contacts

1. Open the **Projects** page and click the project you want to view.
2. In the **Project properties** panel, find the **Contacts** row.
3. Each linked contact is shown as a clickable link. Click a name to open that contact's page.

If a project has no contacts, the row is empty.

![Project properties panel showing the Contacts row with a linked contact](../screenshots/project-contacts-viewing.png)

## Adding contacts to a project

### Add an existing contact

1. Open the project and click **Edit project** in the **Project properties** panel.
2. In the **Edit project** dialog, find the **Contacts** field under **Properties**.
3. Click the **Contacts** field to open the list of contacts, then select the one you want. Use the search box to find a contact by name.
4. Click **Save project**.

You can add several contacts to the same project. Each one appears as a tag inside the field.

![Edit project dialog with the Contacts field and the New contact button](../screenshots/project-contacts-edit-form.png)

### Create a new contact

If the person is not in the directory yet:

1. In the **Edit project** dialog, click **New contact** next to the **Contacts** field.
2. Fill in the contact's details in the **New contact** dialog and click **Save**.
3. The new contact is added to the **Contacts** field straight away. Click **Save project** to save the project.

You can also add contacts while creating a project. See [Project Creation](project-creation.md).

## Removing a contact from a project

1. Open the project and click **Edit project**.
2. In the **Contacts** field, click the **×** on the tag of the contact you want to remove.
3. Click **Save project**.

Removing a contact from a project does not delete the contact from the directory, and the contact stays linked to any other projects they are involved with.

## Related features

- [Contacts](../clients/contacts-page.md) - The central directory of the people you deal with, where each contact's details and projects are kept
- [Project Creation](project-creation.md) - Add contacts while creating a project
- [Clients](../clients/clients.md) - Manage the client organizations your contacts belong to