A new feature has been implemented to prevent two projects to have the same name within a Project group. This will prevent the creation/rename of a project with the name of another project, but won't change projects that had the same name before activating the feature.

Check if your server supports this feature and activate it

Open Administration panel (with Administrator right) and on the main dashboard, go to Project groups information.

If the unique names feature is activated for your server, you should see a switch to Allow or Prevent duplicated names:

By default, duplicated names are allowed. By clicking on the switch you will prevent this behavior in the future.

Already existing duplicated names

When you prevent the possibility of duplicating names, a warning may appear if there are already projects with the same name.

The change will still apply but you will be able to download a text file with a summary of all the duplicated names. You can then correct them later.

The behavior of the project manager

If the duplicated names are prevented for your company, the project manager will throw an error when renaming a project or creating a project with a name already existing in the project group: