Creating a project board

You can use a project board template to create a project board with automation already configured. For more information, see "About project boards."

You can link up to twenty-five repositories to your organization or user-owned project board. Linking repositories makes it easier to add issues and pull requests from those repositories to your project board using Add cards or from the issue or pull requests sidebar. For more information, see "Linking a repository to a project board ."

Once you've created your project board, you can add issues, pull requests, and notes to it. For more information, see "Adding issues and pull requests to a project board" and "Adding notes to a project board."

You can also configure workflow automations to keep your project board in sync with the status of issues and pull requests. For more information, see "About automation for project boards."

You can use GitHub's API to import a project board. For more information, see "importProject."

Creating a user-owned project board

1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.
2. On the top of your profile page, in the main navigation, click Projects.
3. Click New Project.
4. Type a name and description for your project board.
5. Optionally, to add a template to your project board, use the Template: drop-down menu and click a template.
6. Under "Visibility", choose to make your project board public or private. For more information, see "Changing project board visibility."
7. Optionally, under Linked repositories, search for a repository you'd like to link to your project board.
8. Click Create project.
9. On your new project board, to add your first column, Add a column.
10. Under "Column name", type the name of the column you want to create.
11. Optionally, under "Automation", select an automation preset using the drop-down menu.
12. Select the workflow automations you want to configure for the column.
13. Click Create column.
14. Add columns to best suit your workflow.

Creating an organization-wide project board

1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
2. Click the name of your organization.
3. Under your organization name, click Projects.
4. Click New Project.
5. Type a name and description for your project board.
6. Optionally, to add a template to your project board, use the Template: drop-down menu and click a template.
7. Under "Visibility", choose to make your project board public or private. For more information, see "Changing project board visibility."
8. Optionally, under Linked repositories, search for a repository you'd like to link to your project board.
9. Click Create project.
10. On your new project board, to add your first column, Add a column.
11. Under "Column name", type the name of the column you want to create.
12. Optionally, under "Automation", select an automation preset using the drop-down menu.
13. Select the workflow automations you want to configure for the column.
14. Click Create column.
15. Add columns to best suit your workflow.

Creating a repository project board

1. On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Projects.
3. Click New Project.
4. Type a name and description for your project board.
5. Optionally, to add a template to your project board, use the Template: drop-down menu and click a template.
6. Click Create project.
7. On your new project board, to add your first column, Add a column.
8. Under "Column name", type the name of the column you want to create.
9. Optionally, under "Automation", select an automation preset using the drop-down menu.
10. Select the workflow automations you want to configure for the column.
11. Click Create column.
12. Add columns to best suit your workflow.

Further reading

• "About projects boards"
• "Editing a project board"
• "Closing a project board"
• "About automation for project boards"