# Project priority or user priority

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/project-priority-or-user-priority/719>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/project-priority-or-user-priority/719 "2017-10-18T17:46:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jewel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jewel](https://community.openpbs.org/u/jewel)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/project-priority-or-user-priority/719/1 "2017-10-18T17:46:27Z")

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Hi,

I am very new to PBS. I know PBS can set job priority, just wonder if PBS has the abilities to set priorities for projects, or set priorities for group of users.

Thanks,  
Jewel

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**Author:** ![pcebull](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.openpbs.org/pcebull/32/83_2.png) [@pcebull](https://community.openpbs.org/u/pcebull)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/project-priority-or-user-priority/719/2 "2017-11-06T23:08:29Z")

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If you assign groups of users to queues, you can assign queue priorities.

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**Author:** ![bhroam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.openpbs.org/bhroam/32/20_2.png) [@bhroam](https://community.openpbs.org/u/bhroam)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/project-priority-or-user-priority/719/3 "2017-11-07T01:54:25Z")

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If you want to set a strict priority between users or groups, you can use the fairshare tree without turning on fairshare (although turning on fairshare is more fair). You create a resource\_group file. If you want to set priorities between unix groups, set fairshare\_entity to egroup otherwise leave it as euser. The names in the resource\_group file will be user/group names. Lastly set job\_sort\_key to fair\_share\_perc or use the fairshare\_perc term in your job\_sort\_formula.

The admin guide provides a little more detail. Look at the 14.1 admin guide section 4.8.14.

Bhroam