> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.begin.eu/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Posting project updates

> Say how a project is going with a health, a few lines and any files, and keep the conversation on each update.

![Liis Kask's on-track update on Harbour café refit, saying the kitchen fit-out finished two days early, with a Reply button](https://mintcdn.com/beginltd/UE0q1bmp2jR3YvTa/images/cover/projects-posting-updates-light.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=UE0q1bmp2jR3YvTa\&q=85\&s=e11ea9f4d7c9c071c89655cc3501eeb0)

An update says how a project is going: a health, **On track**, **At risk** or **Off track**, and a few lines on progress, risks and next steps. The newest update's health becomes the project's, which is what the Projects page shows beside it, so a regular update keeps the list honest.

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Projects are rolling out gradually, so your workspace may not have them yet. If **Projects** is
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## Post an update

**1. Open the updates**

On the project, open the **Updates** tab. On the **Overview**, **Write update** on the latest
update, or **Write a project update** before the first one, opens the same card right there;
**Cancel** closes it.

**2. Pick the health**

The health at the top of the card starts at the project's current one, or **On track** before
the first update. Change it if that is no longer true.

**3. Write it**

Say what moved, what is at risk and what comes next. Type `@` and a name to mention someone.

**4. Add files, if you want**

Choose **Attach file** (the paperclip), drop files on the card, or paste them into the text.

**5. Post it**

Check **Since the last update**, then choose **Post update** (**Post** on a phone).

**Since the last update** lists what changed on the project since the previous update: its status, priority, lead, dates and budget, who joined or left the team, and which milestones were completed. It is posted with the update, so you do not have to write those changes out.

The update appears at the top of **Updates** and as the **Latest update** on the **Overview**, with its pictures as thumbnails, videos as tiles with a play button and other files as cards, and the project's lead and team are notified. Between updates, the tab records each change to the project, day by day.

## Reply and react

Under an update, **Reply** opens its thread and **Add reaction** adds an emoji. Use the thread for questions about that update, so the answer stays beside it.

## Edit or delete one

An update's three-dot menu has **Edit** for the person who posted it, and **Delete** for them or a role that can moderate comments. Deleting an update removes its reactions too, and it cannot be brought back.

> [!NOTE]
>
> The project's health always follows its newest update. Changing that update's health changes the
> project's, and deleting it falls back to the update before.

**Context for an assistant answering questions about project updates.** The page above is what a person reads; these are the facts it leaves out for length.

* **Who can:** posting needs **Post updates** on the role's **Projects** row, and editing your own update needs it too. Administrator, Manager and Employee have it by default. Deleting someone else's update needs **Moderate comments** on the **Comments** row, which Administrator and Manager have and Employee does not. Replying needs **Add comments**; anyone who can open the project can react.
* **Where:** **Settings → Notifications** has a **Projects** section: **Project update**, **Added to a project** and **Made a project lead**, each on by default. People mentioned in an update get a mention instead of the update notice, and the poster is never notified. Search finds updates by their text.
* **Limits:** a deleted project takes no new updates or replies until it is restored. Each file can be up to 25 MB, and a GIF up to 10 MB.
* **Not supported:** an update without a health, removing a file from a posted update (an edit can add files but not remove one), or restoring a deleted update.
* **Begin AI:** posts up to 20 updates per card, one per project, and asks for the health rather than guessing it. Posting, editing and reacting always ask for confirmation, even under **Automatically approve**. It edits only updates the person asking posted, and cannot attach files to an update.

## Next

> [card] [Planning projects](https://docs.begin.eu/for-managers/projects/planning-projects.md)
>
> Keep the status, dates and milestones the update reports on.

> [card] [Projects overview](https://docs.begin.eu/for-managers/projects/overview.md)
>
> See every project's health on the Projects page.

## Still need help?

> [card] [Contact support](mailto:support@heybegin.eu)
>
> Email the Begin team and we'll get back to you.

> [card] [Ask Begin AI](?assistant=open)
>
> Open the AI assistant and get instant answers based on these docs.


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