Project usage

To see license usage by project, open the Project usage report. It tracks license consumption linked to specific projects, for project-based resource planning.

The following image shows the Project usage report with its pie chart, details table, and filters.

Project usage report showing license consumption by project.

Visualizations

The report has the following visualizations:

• Usage Time in Hours by Project Name Pie Chart: Compare usage time in hours across projects. It shows these values:
  • Project Name
  • Usage Time in Hours
• Project Usage Details Table: Total usage time in hours and the percentage share of usage for each project. It shows these values:
  • Project Name
  • Usage Time in Hours
  • Project Usage %

Filters

Use the following filters to narrow the report:

• Date: A relative date filter. It defaults to Last 14 days, and the filter also shows the resolved range (for example, 2026/07/11 to 2026/07/24). Select another preset, or a custom start and end date, to change the reporting period.
• Vendor: Filter by vendor.
• Group Name: Filter by group name.
• Server Name: Filter by server name.
• License Type: Filter by license type.
• Feature Name: Filter by feature name.
• Software Name: Select a cataloged product from the SAM Catalog. The catalog normalizes publisher and product names, so filtering here groups license records that carry inconsistent raw license strings.
• Product Name: Filter by product name.
• User Name: Filter by username.
• Child Username: OpenLM aggregates usage under a parent user account, so User Name shows the combined total for that person. Select a child username here to drill into a single account merged under the parent. See User aliases for how OpenLM builds the mapping.
• Project Name: Filter by project name.
• Region: Filter by user region.
• Department: Filter by department.
• Additional Key: Filter by additional key.

Interpreting this report

Keep these points in mind when you read the report:

• License cost attribution by project: Use this report to bill license time to projects. The Version 26 project-usage report existed for exactly this: project-oriented companies billing license time to the active project as reported by the end user.
• Usage as reported: Usage lands on the project the user's session declared. Hours on a default or stale project selection are misattribution, not work, and a large "general" slice in the pie chart usually means this.
• Percentage column: It distributes shared license costs across projects directly. To exclude idle time, use the same split in License activity grouped by project.