About policies for projects in your enterprise
You can enforce policies to control how enterprise members manage projects and classic projects, or you can allow organization owners to manage policies for projects and classic projects at the organization level.
Some policies apply to both Projects, the new projects experience, and projects (classic), the previous experience, while some apply only to projects (classic). For more information about each experience, see "About Projects" and "About projects (classic)."
Enforcing a policy for organization-wide projects
Across all organizations owned by your enterprise, you can enable or disable organization-wide project boards, or allow owners to administer the setting on the organization level.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises.
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In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.
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In the enterprise account sidebar, click Policies.
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Under " Policies", click Projects.
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Under "Organization projects", review the information about changing the setting. Optionally, to view the current configuration for all organizations in the enterprise account before you change the setting, click View your organizations' current configurations.
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Under "Organization projects", select the dropdown menu and click a policy.
Enforcing a policy for visibility changes to projects
Across all organizations owned by your enterprise, you can enable or disable the ability for people with admin access to a project to change the visibility of the project, or you can allow owners to administer the setting on the organization level.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises.
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In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.
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In the enterprise account sidebar, click Policies.
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Under " Policies", click Projects.
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Under "Project visibility change permission", review the information about changing the setting. Optionally, to view the current configuration for all organizations in the enterprise account before you change the setting, click View your organizations' current configurations.
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Select the dropdown menu, then click a policy.
Enforcing policies for projects (classic)
Some policies apply only to projects (classic).
Enforcing a policy for repository projects
Across all organizations owned by your enterprise, you can enable or disable repository-level projects, or allow owners to administer the setting at the organization level.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises.
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In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.
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In the enterprise account sidebar, click Policies.
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Under " Policies", click Projects.
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Under "Repository projects", review the information about changing the setting. Optionally, to view the current configuration for all organizations in the enterprise account before you change the setting, click View your organizations' current configurations.
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Under "Repository projects", select the dropdown menu and click a policy.