Why are some maven projects in IntelliJ grayed out?
Solution 1:
Seems images are better way to answer this question.
- Projects are greyed out when you ignore them in your IntelliJ workspace.
- To add those projects or modules back in your workspace, right click on them and click on unignore projects as shown in below screenshot.
- Alternatively, you can also go to File - Settings -> Build, execution and deployment -> Build Tools -> Maven -> Ignored Files, now select whichever projects/modules you may wish to retain in your IntelliJ workspace.
Feel free to ping in comments if more clarification required. Happy coding.
Solution 2:
Right click on the pom -> maven -> unignore. Then right click on pom -> maven -> reload project.
Seems some kind of bug when you open a child subdirectory then open the parent in IntelliJ.
Solution 3:
This is known issue and interlinked to 3 more IDEA issue. You can find more details here.
Indicate that pom.xml is ignored when editing it
Lot of us might spend more time and then end up deleting module & re-creating it. But @Pratik Ambani solutions works great!!, option 3 worked in my case.