Setting importance / priority at the project level

I've got several projects across several teams so I've set up a dashboard to see them all in one place. I have a widget for each team that shows the active projects for that team. The problem is that I can't sort the projects within the teams by importance / priority - i.e. where I need to focus my energy - because projects can't have an importance / priority setting. Tasks can, but not projects. 

Does anyone have any tricks that could help with this as projects not having an importance / priority setting seems an obvious gap. 

Please tell me I'm missing something obvious!

ps: I've contacted support and the best they could suggest was putting numbers of exclamation marks or numbers at the start of a project name

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Hi James, 

We have a couple of custom fields at the project-level: 

1. Project Priority (a single-select dropdown of 1-5, with 1 being the highest) 

2. Organization Level (a single-select dropdown to indicate whether a project is a team/department priority, a program priority, or an org-wide priority)

The combination of these custom fields allows us to adjust schedules to prioritize the highest priority projects for each level of the org. 

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Hi James,

We do something similar as Sarah. We utilize custom fields to help us categorize each project.

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We also have a customized field at the project level called "Priority" and have three levels of High, Medium, and Low. We can report and create dashboards utilizing this field.

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Thanks all, I'll look into this.

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Would be a great to have the "importance" field like we have in the task.  

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