# Associating a quality gate with projects
The default quality gate is associated with all projects 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. The procedure is explained below.
* At the project level with the Administer Quality Gates permission or the Administer Project permission. See the [Managing your project's quality gate](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/project-administration/changing-quality-gate-and-fudge-factor.md) page for more details.
## Last setting overrides principle without a hierarchy
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’s 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’s 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.
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## Associating (or disassociating) a quality gate with (from) projects
1. In the top navigation bar, select **Quality Gates**.
2. In the left panel, select the quality gate you want to manage.
3. In the right panel’s **Projects** section, select the **With** (to view only the associated projects), **Without** (to view only the not associated projects) or **All** tab.
4. Select or unselect the projects you want to associate or disassociate with / from the quality gate.
## Related pages
* [Understanding quality gates](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/introduction-to-quality-gates.md)
* [Viewing a quality gate](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/viewing-quality-gate.md)
* [Managing custom quality gates](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/managing-custom-quality-gates.md)
* [Changing instance's default quality gate](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/changing-default-quality-gate.md)
* [Subscribing to notifications](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/user-guide/managing-your-account/subscribing-to-notifications.md)
* [Managing your project's quality gate](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/project-administration/changing-quality-gate-and-fudge-factor.md)
* Changing the quality gate fudge factor:
* [Quality standards](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/instance-administration/analysis-functions/quality-standards.md)
* [Managing your project's quality gate](/sonarqube-server/2025.5/project-administration/changing-quality-gate-and-fudge-factor.md)
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