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url: https://docs.revis.io/getting-started/find-and-open-a-project.md
description: >-
  Open your projects from the organization menu or the Projects page, switch
  organization, and request access to projects you aren't in yet.
---

# Find a project or switch organization

Every project you can open is on your organization's **Projects** page. The organization menu at the top of the sidebar takes you there, switches organization, or opens a project directly. Projects you can ask to join are listed under **Browse Projects**.

::: info Before you start

* **Who:** anyone in an organization. People added to a project but not to its organization see only their projects there, without **Browse Projects**.
* **Where:** the web app and the desktop app.
  :::

## Switch organization or open a project

1. Select your organization's icon at the top of the sidebar.
2. Under **Current Organization**, select a project to open its reviews, or select your organization's name to open its **Projects** page.
3. To switch, select another organization under **Other Organizations**. Its **Projects** page opens. To open one of its projects instead, point to the organization (or press the Right Arrow key) and select the project in the list beside it.

Organizations where you're a member appear before organizations where you only have project access. Each group is alphabetical.

The menu shows up to 50 projects per organization, archived ones included. The **Projects** page shows them all.

In the web app, signing in or opening the app's home address returns to the last organization or project page you visited with that account in this browser, unless you followed a specific link. If you no longer have access to the project, its organization's **Projects** page opens. If the organization is unavailable or nothing is remembered, revis.io opens the first organization in the order above.

## Find a project on the Projects page

Use the toolbar above your projects, then select a project's card to open its reviews.

| Control | Options |
| --- | --- |
| **Search projects...** | Matches the names and descriptions of your projects |
| Filter | **All Projects**, **Active Projects** (default), or **Archived Projects** |
| Grouping | **No Grouping** (default) or **Time Period** (when the project was created) |
| Sort | **Latest Created** (default), **Oldest Created**, **Name (A-Z)**, or **Name (Z-A)** |
| **Reset** | Puts all of these back to the defaults. It appears once you change one. |

revis.io remembers your filter, grouping, and sort in that browser. To keep a project at the top, point to its card and select the star (**Add to favorites**), or choose **More options** > **Star Project**. Favorites come first in each group and follow your account to other devices.

## Request access to a project

**Browse Projects**, below your projects, lists your organization's [Discoverable](/getting-started/create-a-project#choose-a-visibility) projects that you aren't in. If there's no **Browse Projects** section, there's nothing to request: ask a project admin or an organization admin to add you. If you open a link to one of these projects, a dialog offers the same request; see [If you can't open a project](#if-you-can-t-open-a-project).

1. On the **Projects** page, scroll down to **Browse Projects**.
2. Select **Request Access** on the project. The button changes to **Requested**.
3. Wait for an admin to accept. revis.io emails the project's admins (or the organization's admins, if the project has none), and they accept or decline it in the project's **Members** settings. See [Add people and teams to a project](/admin/add-people-and-teams-to-a-project).
4. Reload the **Projects** page. Once your request is accepted, the project is with your other projects, and you're a **Viewer** in it. If it was declined, the project shows **Request Access** again.
5. Select the project to open it.

## If you can't open a project

When you open a link to a project you can't open, the web app doesn't open it. It takes you to the last project you had open in the same organization, if you can still open it. If there is none, it opens the **Projects** page. Then one of two things happens:

* **The project is discoverable to you.** A dialog asks "Request access to *project name*?" and says you're not a member of the project yet. Select **Request access** to send the request, or **Not now** to close the dialog. revis.io confirms with "Access requested", or with "You've already requested access" if your request is still waiting. After that, wait for an admin to accept, as in [Request access to a project](#request-access-to-a-project).
* **Anything else.** A message says "That link isn't available. It may have been removed, or you may not have access." revis.io shows the same message whether the project is private, deleted, or doesn't exist, so it never confirms that a private project is there. Check the link with whoever sent it, or ask a project admin or an organization admin to add you.

## In the desktop app

1. Open **Browse Reviews and Flow**: select it in the player toolbar (the folder icon with a magnifying glass), or press `⌘1` (`Ctrl+1` on Windows and Linux).
2. Select the organization icon at the top left of **Browse Reviews and Flow**.
3. Select a project to open its reviews, or select an organization's name to open its **Projects** page.
4. On the **Projects** page, select a card to open the project's reviews.

The desktop **Projects** page has the same search, filter, grouping, sort, favorites, and **Browse Projects** as the web app, but no **New Project**.