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# Project Manager Overview
Overview of the Project Manager - the single collection point for the calculations, divisions, and external items that make up a Project.
The Project Manager is displayed when a Project has been opened.
The Project Manager provides the ability to create and modify a single Project that can contain a set of calculations and external items for a specific project. The layout, which will be ever-improving, is designed to allow a Project to be a single collection point for documents relating to the load development and structural design of a building or other structure.
Project Manager Overview
## Components that all Projects AUTOMATICALLY contain are:
**GENERAL Division (Only one can exist in a Project)**
A storage location for pieces of information pertaining to areas of the entire project, such as:
* Project Info, Building Department Contact Info, Designer Notes, Revisions, Client, Designer.
* Future additions
**Calculations Division**
A storage location for calcs that the user adds to the Project.
## Components that any Project CAN contain are:
**Custom Divisions (An unlimited number can exist in a Project)**
Storage locations (folders) for organizing user-generated calculations and external items.
* Can be created, named, copied, organized, expanded, collapsed, and deleted.
* Are typically named in ways that are meaningful to the designer and that suit the specific project.
* Are generally populated with calculations and external items.
* Provide a convenient way to selectively control project printing operations for logical sets of calculations.
* Every new Project is automatically populated with one Division named "Calculations".
**Calculations (An unlimited number can exist in a Project)**
User-generated calculations that are created using the built-in modules and are stored in Divisions.
* Can be created, moved between Divisions, and deleted.
* Can be copied to serve as the basis for a new calculation with similar input data.
* Can be imported from one Project to another.
* Can be printed singly or in batch mode using the Project Printing Manager.
Please see the descriptive keynotes on the following screen capture for information on various areas of the Project Manager.
Areas of the Project Manager
(1) **Project Printing:** These buttons allow you to print the report for the selected calculation, or open the Project Printing system, which allows you to review all report pages for all calculation items in the entire project. [Click here](/docs/user-manual/project-manager/project-printing.md) to review the specific section on Project Printing.
(2) **Buttons to Add, Copy, Edit & Delete Individual Calculations:** These buttons allow you to add, copy, edit and delete ENERCALC calculations in the selected Division. [Click here](/docs/user-manual/project-manager/calculation-list/adding-deleting-copying.md) to review specific section.
(3) **Sort Options:** These dropdown options sort your Project content by Division grouping, Type of calculation (Steel Beam, Concrete Column, Excel sheet, etc.), Material (Concrete, Steel, Wood, etc.) or Calc Order (for Linked Load calculations). [Click here](/docs/user-manual/project-manager/calculation-list/sorting-by-division-type-mate.md) to review specific section.
(4) **Expand & Contract Tree:** These two buttons fully expand or fully contract the tree structure to display or hide the full contents of the Project.
(5) **GENERAL Division:** The GENERAL Division is automatically created in each new Project. There can only be one GENERAL Division, and its purpose is to contain and organize certain hard-coded pieces of general information that apply to the Project as a whole. [Click here](/docs/user-manual/project-manager/general-division.md) to review the section describing these items. The screen capture below shows a view of the Project Manager with the GENERAL Division expanded to display its contents:
The GENERAL division expanded
(6) **Calculations Division:** The Calculations Division is also automatically created in each new Project, but it is created merely as a user-convenience. It can be thought of as a "custom" Division, because its name can be changed and it can be moved or deleted. The user is free to create as many custom Divisions as the Project warrants, and to name them as best suits the Project.
(7) **Calculation List:** This is the main list that displays all the calculation items that you have added into your project. It allows you to organize your calculations into Divisions. See image below for another look at two Divisions labeled "Beams" and "Columns". Columns shows a \[**+**] button to its left, indicating that the tree containing the calculations in that Division is compressed. [Click here](/docs/user-manual/project-manager/calculation-list.md) to review the section describing these items.
This area displays the color-coded status badge legend and brief descriptions for each badge. [Click here](/docs/user-manual/calculation-modules/linked-loads/status-badges-and-linked-load-recalculation.md) to review the specific section on Linked Loads.
(8) **Project Manager Item Actions:** Each item contains a menu of actions to regarding their type (Division, calculation, etc.). [Click here](/docs/user-manual/project-manager/calculation-list/item-actions.md) to review specific section.
Project Manager Item Actions
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