---
title: "Enable projects for a definition"
slug: "enable-projects-for-a-definition"
abstract: "How to enable projects on an entity definition."
---
# Enable projects for a definition

To use a certain entity definition type within projects, you must enable the projects functionality on this definition.

Enabling projects for an entity definition:

- Extends the entity definition with the relations and properties required for use with projects.
- Creates a basic detail page that shows all member groups except **System**.
- Extends the default project detail page with the entity-related information.
- Extends the **Search**, **Creation**, and **Selection** components of the **Block (item) detail pages** to enable search and selection on the definition.

> [!important]
> To enable an entity definition for projects, the definition must have a unique [**Label** and a **Display template** set](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/edit-an-entity-definition.html "Edit an entity definition").

To enable projects for a definition:

1. On the menu bar, click **Manage** :mdiCogOutline:.
2. On the **Manage** page, click **Schema**.
3. On the **Schema** page, click the entity definition you want.
4. On the entity definition page, click **Actions** :mdiDotsHorizontal: and then click **Enable/Disable**.
5. In the **Enable/Disable** dialog, turn on the **Projects** switch.
6. Click **Done**.

> [!important]
> Enabling projects for a definition does not affect role-based security for that definition. Security role templates can be manually extended, but this might affect system performance.