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title: "Creating a Project"
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A project is a group in which you can add users, grant access to the resources in your deployment, and specify the resource they can interact with.

To create a project, complete the following steps:

1. In the *VMware Aria ‌Automation Assembler*, on the **Infrastructure** tab, navigate to **Administration** -> **Projects**.
2. Click **NEW PROJECT**.
3. On the *New Project* page -> **Summary** tab, enter a name for the project.
4. On the **Users** tab:
  1. Click **ADD USERS**.
  2. In the **Users** search field, type the first few letters of the VMware Aria Automation user name and select the user in the populated list.
  3. Under **Assign role**, select the role you want to assign to the user.
  4. Click **ADD**.
5. On the **Provisioning** tab:
  1. **Zones**: Add a cloud zone.
    1. Click **ADD ZONE** -> **Cloud Zone**.
    2. In the **Cloud zone** search field, select the cloud zone that you created previously.
    3. Click **ADD**.
  2. **Placement policy**: Select a placement policy from the drop-down list that must be applied when selecting the cloud zone for provisioning VMs.
  3. **Resource Tags**: From the **Tags** drop-down list, select or type the tags that must be applied to machines provisioned in this project.
  4. **Custom Naming**: Add custom naming template that should apply to this project. Resources created with this project will use the defined naming convention.  
Example: ${resource.name}-${###}  
You can create naming templates on the **Infrastructure** -> **Administration** -> **Custom Names** tab.
6. Click **CREATE**.