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Managing access to a project board for organization members

As an organization owner or project board admin, you can set a default permission level for a project board for all organization members.

By default, organization members have write access to their organization's project boards unless organization owners or project board admins set different permissions for specific project boards.

Setting a baseline permission level for all organization members

Tip: You can give an organization member higher permissions to project board. For more information, see "Project board permissions for an organization."

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. Your organizations in the profile menu

  2. Click the name of your organization. Organization name in list of organizations

  3. Under your organization name, click Projects.

    Projects tab for your organization

  4. In the projects list, click the name of the project board. Select project

  5. On the top-right side of the project board, click Menu.

  6. Click , then click Settings. Settings option in drop-down menu from project board sidebar

  7. Under "Organization member permission", choose a baseline permission level for all organization members: Read, Write, Admin, or None. Baseline project board permission options for all organization members

  8. Click Save.

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