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Changing project board visibility

As an organization owner or project board admin, you can make a project board public or private.

By default, user-owned and organization-wide project boards are private and only visible to people with read, write, or admin permissions to the project board. A public project board is visible to anyone with the project board's URL. Repository-level project boards share the visibility of their repository. That is, a private repository will have a private project, and this visibility cannot be changed.

Notes:

  • Organization owners can control the ability of organization members to create public project boards, or change the visibility of existing project boards to public. For more information, see "Allowing project visibility changes in your organization."
  • When you make your project board public, organization members are given read access by default. You can give specific organization members write or admin permissions by giving access to teams they're on or by adding them to the project board as a collaborator. For more information, see "Project board permissions for an organization."

  1. Navigate to the project board you want to make public or private.

  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. Under "Visibility", choose to make your project board public or private. For more information, see "Changing project board visibility."

  5. Click Save.