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Disabling projects in your organization

Organization owners can turn off organization-wide projects, organization-wide projects (classic), and repository-level projects (classic) in an organization.

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After you disable organization-wide projects, it won’t be possible to create new projects at the organization level, and any existing organization-level projects will become inaccessible at their previous URLs. These settings apply to projects and projects (classic). Projects (classic) in repositories in the organization are not affected.

After you disable repository-level projects (classic) in an organization, it won't be possible to create new projects (classic) in any repositories in the organization, and any existing projects (classic) in repositories in the organization will become inaccessible at their previous URLs. Projects (classic) at the organization level are not affected.

When projects (classic) are disabled, you will no longer see project (classic) information in timelines or audit logs.

Disabling projects and projects (classic) in your organization

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations**.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. In the "Code planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click Projects.
  4. Decide whether to disable projects and projects (classic) in your organization. Then, under "Projects":
    • To disable projects and projects (classic), deselect Enable Projects for the organization.
    • To enable projects and projects (classic) in the organization, select Enable Projects for the organization.
  5. Click Save.

If you decide to re-enable projects and projects (classic), any projects and projects (classic) that were previously added will be available.

Managing projects (classic) in your organization's repositories

You can control whether organization members can create projects (classic) in repositories in your organization. You can still disable projects (classic) in individual repositories. For more information, see Disabling projects in a repository.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations**.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. In the "Code planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click Projects.
  4. Decide whether to allow members to create projects (classic) in repositories in your organization. Then, under "Projects (classic) only":
    • To enable projects (classic) in repositories, select Allow members to enable Projects (classic) for all repositories.
    • To disable projects (classic) in repositories, deselect Allow members to enable Projects (classic) for all repositories.
  5. Click Save.

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