# Associating a quality gate with projects

The default quality gate is associated with all projects in the organization that are not explicitly associated with a quality gate. You can explicitly associate a project with a quality gate:

* At the quality gate level with the Administer Quality Gates permission. See [#associating-quality-gate-with-projects](#associating-quality-gate-with-projects "mention") for details.
* At the project level with the Administer Quality Gates permission or the Administer Project permission. See the [changing-quality-gate](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/project-analysis/changing-quality-gate "mention") page.

## Last setting overrides principle without a hierarchy <a href="#last-setting-overrides-without-hierarchy" id="last-setting-overrides-without-hierarchy"></a>

The *last setting overrides* principle applies without a hierarchy: the most recently configured setting will take precedence over all previous settings. For example:

1. From the **Quality Gates** page, you first associate quality gate 1 with project 1.
2. Still from the **Quality Gates** page, you associate quality gate 2 with project 1. Project 1 is now associated with quality gate 2.
3. From project 1 settings, you associate project 1 with quality gate 3. Project 1 is now associated with quality gate 3. The setting is updated in the **Quality Gates** page.
4. From the **Quality Gates** page, you associate quality gate 1 with project 1. Project 1 is now associated with quality gate 1. The setting is updated in project 1 settings.

{% hint style="warning" %}
To avoid misconfigurations, we recommend that in your instance, you perform explicit associations either from the **Quality Gates** page or from the project settings, but not from both.
{% endhint %}

## Associating projects with a quality gate <a href="#associating-quality-gate-with-projects" id="associating-quality-gate-with-projects"></a>

1. Retrieve your organization. See [viewing-organizations](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/getting-started/viewing-organizations "mention") for details.
2. Go to **Quality Gates**.
3. In the left panel, select the quality gate you want to manage.
4. In the **Projects** section on the right, select the **With** (to view only the associated projects), **Without** (to view only the disassociated projects) or **All** tab.
5. Select or unselect the projects you want to associate with or disassociate from the quality gate.

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## Related pages <a href="#related-pages" id="related-pages"></a>

* [introduction-to-quality-gates](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-gates/introduction-to-quality-gates "mention")
* [viewing-quality-gate](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-gates/viewing-quality-gate "mention")
* [managing-custom-quality-gates](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-gates/managing-custom-quality-gates "mention")
* [changing-default-quality-gate](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-gates/changing-default-quality-gate "mention")
* [notifications](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-account/notifications "mention")
* [quality-gates-for-ai-code](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/ai-code-assurance/quality-gates-for-ai-code "mention")
* [changing-quality-gate](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/project-analysis/changing-quality-gate "mention")