Managing project boards

Learn how to create and manage project boards

Note: Projects (beta), the all-new projects experience, is now available. For more information about projects (beta), see "About projects (beta)."

About project boards

Project boards on GitHub Enterprise Cloud help you organize and prioritize your work. You can create project boards for specific feature work, comprehensive roadmaps, or even release checklists. With project boards, you have the flexibility to create customized workflows that suit your needs.

Creating a project board

Project boards can be used to create customized workflows to suit your needs, like tracking and prioritizing specific feature work, comprehensive roadmaps, or even release checklists.

Editing a project board

You can edit the title and description of an existing project board.

Linking a repository to a project board

You can link a repository to your organization's or personal account's project board.

About automation for project boards

You can configure automatic workflows to keep the status of project board cards in sync with the associated issues and pull requests.

Configuring automation for project boards

You can set up automatic workflows to move issues and pull requests to a project board column when a specified event occurs.

Copying a project board

You can copy a project board to quickly create a new project. Copying frequently used or highly customized project boards helps standardize your workflow.

Changing project board visibility

As an organization owner or project board admin, you can make a project board public or private.

Closing a project board

If you've completed all the tasks in a project board or no longer need to use a project board, you can close the project board.

Reopening a closed project board

You can reopen a closed project board and restart any workflow automation that was configured for the project board.

Deleting a project board

You can delete an existing project board if you no longer need access to its contents.