Project properties (NVivo 15 Windows)

Configure NVivo project settings like general info, autosave, recovery, labels, passwords, users, styles, media, and survey fields—specific to each project.

Apr 1, 2026
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Project properties (NVivo 15 Windows)

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Project properties (NVivo 15 Windows)

Set a range of properties for the current project. You can set options and preferences for the current project with NVivo. Project properties are 'project specific'— any set preferences are set only for the current project.

NOTE Many of the settings in the Project Properties dialog box are set when you create a project—see Create a new project (NVivo 15 Windows)

View or change project properties

Launch the required NVivo project.
Click File > Info > Project Properties to open the Project Properties dialog box.
Choose a tab to view or change the preferences.

General

Property	Description
Title	Project name or title of the project.
Description	Summary of the current project.
File name	Project file name with the location path.
Text content language	The text content language is used when you run Text Search queries or Word Frequency Queries. It is also used for spell checking and pattern-based autocoding. Select the text content language that matches the language of your files. If the language used in your files is not available as a text content language, then you should select Other. Text content language & stop words (NVivo 15 Windows)
Stop Words...	You can view the stop words associated with each language, and you can customize the stop words by adding or removing words from the stop word list.
Write user actions to project event log	The event log contains the name, location, event, details, and user information.
Created on/Modified on	Timestamp of the project creation and modification date with the user initials.

Save and Recovery

Preference	Description
Autosave the project? (If yes, undo is disabled)	NVivo automatically saves your project updates when set to Yes.
Display save reminders every	You can set the reminder alert for a specific interval in minutes.
Create recovery files	You can set to run the file recovery for the following time intervals: Never Every thirty minutes Every hour Every four hour
Store the most recent files	You can set the number of project recovery files to back up automatically.
Recovery file location	You can browse and set a location to store the recovered files.

Labels

Preference	Description
"Unassigned" attribute value label	You can set custom labels for the "Unassigned" attribute value labels.
"Not Applicable" attribute value label	You can set custom labels for the "Not Applicable" attribute value labels.
"Associated" relationship type label	You can set custom labels for the "Associated" relationship type label.
Reset	You can reset to apply default labels.

Passwords

Preference	Description
Read/Write Password	You can set read/write passwords including password hint. Once you set a password, users will be prompted for the password every time the project is accessed and they will be able to edit the project.
Read Only Password	You can set read only passwords including password hint. Once you set a password, users will be prompted for the password every time the project is accessed and they can only access the project in read only mode.

Users

Preference	Description
Users	You can edit initials and color for each users in the project.
Remove	You can remove and replace a user with another user involved in the project.

Paragraph Styles

Preference	Description
Name	Set a name for the paragraph style.
Text	You can set custom font, size, color, and whether it should be bold, italics, or underlined.
Preview	Preview the selected font style.
New Style	Create your own custom style.
Reset Style	Reset the selected paragraph style to its default setting. You cannot reset custom paragraph styles.
Reset Styles	Reset all system-defined paragraph styles to default settings for font, size, color, bold, italic and underline.

Audio/Video

Preference	Description
Embed media in project if file size less than xx MB	Select this option if you want to automatically embed media files in your projects. By default, media files less than 20MB are embedded. The maximum size for embedded media files is: 40MB - standalone projects
Custom Transcript Fields	When you add custom fields, they are added to all audio/video transcripts in the project. For more information, see Add custom fields to transcripts. Audio/video tab - You can create new custom field for Audio or video files, the newly added field(s) will be displayed in all the audio and video files in the project.

Preference

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Embed media in project if file size less than xx MB

Select this option if you want to automatically embed media files in your projects. By default, media files less than 20MB are embedded.

The maximum size for embedded media files is:

40MB - standalone projects

Custom Transcript Fields

When you add custom fields, they are added to all audio/video transcripts in the project. For more information, see Add custom fields to transcripts.

Audio/video tab - You can create new custom field for Audio or video files, the newly added field(s) will be displayed in all the audio and video files in the project.

Framework Matrices

Preference	Description
Default Summary Style	Set a default paragraph style for the content displayed in the summary cell.
Preview	Preview the set paragraph style.
Reset Style	Reset to the default paragraph style.

Social Media Survey

Preference	Description
Include from NCapture	You can configure the following fields to be included or excluded from NCapture: Date of Birth Gender Religion Location Relationship Status Bio Web

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Include from NCapture

You can configure the following fields to be included or excluded from NCapture:

Date of Birth
Gender
Religion
Location
Relationship Status
Bio
Web

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