What is the OpenAir Project Center and How Does it Help Me?

In the Spring 2019 release, OpenAir introduced the Project Center. This optional feature, which must be enabled by OpenAir support, merges common project management functions into a single screen. If you’re a project manager who manages both project bookings and project plans, the Project Center can save a lot of time by avoiding context switching.

The two main components of the Project Center are the outline view and the booking worksheet. The outline view allows you to manage project plans which include phases, tasks, and milestones. You can add and delete phases, tasks, and milestones in the User Interface without moving to another screen. Editing a project plan element does take you to the task, phase, or milestone screen outside of the Project Center.

The Project Center is helpful for quick updates to bookings and project plans in an “Editable list view” or inline editing. This newish feature is a focus of the upcoming Spring 2021 release and we hope OpenAir continues to develop this potentially very useful feature set.