Use standard terminology for project management

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We're making it easier to work with project accounting by updating the terminology we use for its features in the product and documentation. Specifically, we're renaming things that were called “jobs” to “projects.” The goal is to improve the user experience, the clarity of the documentation, and the consistency of the terminology across the application.

Feature details

For a long time now, we’ve referred to project accounting features as “jobs,” which has caused confusion in our community because that’s not the term that people who work with project accounting expect. We’re happy to announce that we’re addressing this legacy problem. To clarify the true nature and purpose of the project accounting features for various types of businesses, we’re replacing the term “job” with “project” in the user interface and documentation.

For example, entities such as job tasks, job journals, and job planning lines are now project tasks, project journals, and project planning lines. The renaming won’t break existing integrations and customizations because we’re only updating the captions in the user interface and the terms in our documentation. We aren’t touching the names of the underlying table and field objects.

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