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# What is a project?

Projects provide a contextual sandbox that controls the scope of all the elements within that project. This allows, for example, a form builder to be given permission to create forms in one project but not another, or for a form user to view submissions in one project but not others.

The various elements that can be contained in a project context include:

* [**Forms** ](/form-building/form-types.md)**&** [**Resources** ](/form-building/resources-readme.md)- Ad-hoc data collecting interfaces
  * [**Submissions** ](/form-building/submissions.md)- Data submitted into each form
  * [**Actions** ](/form-building/actions.md)- Actions performed once the form is submitted; such as Email, Webhooks, etc.
  * [**Logs** ](/form-building/actions.md#action-logs)- Keeps an active report of actions performed.
  * [**Access** ](/admin/roles-and-permissions.md#permissions)- Assign Role-based permissions to certain actions within each form
  * [**Revisions** ](/form-building/form-revisions.md)- If enabled, create new revisions for every form update.
  * [**Settings** ](/form-building/form-settings.md)- Settings per-form
* [**Roles** ](/admin/roles-and-permissions.md#roles)- Assigned to users to establish access control. Can be user-defined.
* [**Stages** ](/admin/projects/stages.md)- Child project contexts used to manage multiple environments and authoring workflows.
* [**Settings**](/admin/projects/project-settings.md)
  * [**Integrations** ](/dev/integrations.md)- Configure integrations with third-party providers, such as Email providers on a per-project basis
  * [**Authentication** ](/dev/authentication-and-authorization.md)- Configure SSO, OAuth, SAML, and LDAP authentication systems.
  * [**Stage Versions and Deployments**](/admin/projects/stages.md#stage-deployments) - Used to create and manage the versions of a specific stage and to deploy created versions to other stages.
  * [**On-Premise Environment**](/deploy/on-premises-deployment.md) - Allows you to connect a stage to a remote API server.
  * [**Project & Stage Settings**](/admin/projects/project-settings.md) - Includes CORS, API Keys, Public Configurations, etc.


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