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Managing access to your personal account's project boards

As a project board owner, you can add or remove a collaborator and customize their permissions to a project board.

A collaborator is a person who has permissions to a project board you own. A collaborator's permissions will default to read access. For more information, see "Permission levels for a project board owned by a personal account."

Inviting collaborators to a user-owned project board

  1. Navigate to the project board where you want to add an collaborator.

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

  3. Click , then click Settings.

    Screenshot showing the project menu. The settings option is highlighted with an orange outline.

  4. In the left sidebar, click Collaborators.

  5. Under "Search by username, full name or email address", type the collaborator's name, username, or GitHub email.

  6. In the search results, click the correct username and click Add collaborator.

  7. The new collaborator has read permissions by default. Optionally, next to the new collaborator's name, use the drop-down menu and choose a different permission level.

Removing a collaborator from a user-owned project board

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

  2. Click , then click Settings.

    Screenshot showing the project menu. The settings option is highlighted with an orange outline.

  3. In the left sidebar, click Collaborators.

  4. Next to the collaborator you want to remove, click X.