Understanding projects in Black Duck

Black Duck helps project teams manage project information and the OSS components that are being used in each of the versions of a project.

At the project level, team members can:

Update the project and project version information.

This information is searchable in Black Duck.
Manage tags associated with the project.

This information is searchable in Black Duck.
Create a new version of the project.
Manage project team membership.
Delete a project or project version.

The My Projects dashboard lists all projects where you are a member or where you have project-group privileges. Select the name of the project to go to the Project Name page which displays the Overview tab by default.

This tab provides the following information for each version in this project:


Column	Description
N/A	Icons shown to the left of the version name: Policy violation. Select the icon to view information on the policy violation. Policy violation has been overridden. Select the icon to view information on the policy violation.
Version	Name of the project version.
Phase	The development phase of this version. The possible values are: In Planning In Development Pre-release Released Deprecated Archived The value in this field is used to calculate risk for the project. Archived versions are not included in project risk calculations. Click here for more information about project version phases.
Last Updated	When this project version was last updated. Hover over the value to see: When the scan mapped to this version of the project was last scanned. If there are multiple scans mapped to this version of the project, this is when any of those scans was most recently scanned. When the BOM was last updated. There are several ways that the BOM could have been updated, including manual adjustments, new scans of existing code or Docker images, and newly-mapped scans.
Last Scanned	Date of the last scan for this project version. Hover over the value to see the date and time.
License	Name of the license for this project version.
Security Risk	Bars show the critical, high, medium, and low security risk levels for the OSS components in this version of the project. Select the bar to view the number of affected components.
License Risk	Bars show the high (100% red), medium (50% red), and low (100% gray) license risk levels for the OSS components in this version of the project. Select the bar to view the number of affected components.
Operational Risk	Bars show the high (100% red), medium (50% red), and low (100% gray) operational risk levels for the OSS components in this version of the project. Select the bar to view the number of affected components.

Above the table, the following information is shown:

Description. Description of this project. Select the Settings tab to create or revise the description.
Created. The user who created this project and the date it was created.
Updated. The user who last updated this project (by modifying any project information or by adding a member) and the date it was last updated.

Updates do not include adding or modifying a project version.
Tags. Any tags for this project.
Additional Fields. Project custom field information.