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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.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Click the name of your organization.

  3. Under your organization name, click Projects.

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

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

  6. Click , then click Settings.

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

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

  8. Click Save.

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