Configuring end-user settings for your project

This page explains how to connect your project to SonarQube for IDE, generate a token, subscribe to notifications, and use a project badge.

This page explains various procedures you can perform on your project without being a project admin.

Connecting your project to SonarQube for IDE

SonarQube for IDE is a free IDE extension that integrates with SonarQube Cloud using connected mode. This way, SonarQube for IDE can catch issues immediately, right in the IDE, before you even commit them.

Check the SonarQube for IDE documentation for the details about setting up Connected Mode:

• Connected mode for SonarQube for IntelliJ
• Connected mode for SonarQube for Visual Studio
• Connected mode for SonarQube for VS Code
• Connected mode for SonarQube for Eclipse

Generating a token for your project analysis

From the Team plan, see Scoped Organization Tokens.

With the Free plan, seeManaging personal access tokens.

Subscribing to notifications on project events

You can choose to receive email notifications when specific events occur in your project. See Subscribing to email notifications.

Marking a project as favorite

Favorite projects are displayed on My projects page.

When you create a project, it’s automatically marked as favorite.

To mark a project as a favorite:

1. Retrieve the project. See Retrieving projects for more information.
2. In the top right corner of the page, select the star icon.

Alternatively, you can select or unselect the star in a list of projects from the My projects page or from Your organization > Projects page.

Using a project badge

If you have project access, you can include dynamic SonarQube Cloud badges on your web pages to display information about the project such as:

• The current value of specific metrics.
• The current quality gate status.
• The fact that you are using SonarQube Cloud.
• The current state of your Using the AI Code Assurance badge, available for Team and Enterprise plans.

Markdown snippets and simple image URLs are provided to generate the badge code.

To generate the code of your dynamic project badge:

1. Retrieve the project. See Retrieving projects for more information.
2. Go to Information and scroll down to the Badges section
3. Select the information type you want to display:

   1. Standard badge
   2. Quality gate badge
   3. Scanned on SonarQube Cloud badge
   4. AI Code Assurance badge
4. Customize or modify the badge. Customization and modifications are available for the Standard badge and Scanned on SonarQube Cloud badge.
5. Copy the Markdown or Image URL code.