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Changing team visibility

Team maintainers and organization owners can determine whether a team is visible or secret.

Teams can be visible or secret:

  • Visible teams can be viewed and @mentioned by every organization member.
  • Secret teams are only visible to the people on the team and people with owner permissions. They're great for hiding teams with sensitive names or members, such as those used for working with external partners or clients. Secret teams cannot be nested under parent teams or have child teams.

People who are not members of the organization cannot view any teams.

Tip: If a team has child or parent teams, you cannot make it a secret team.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, select 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 Teams.

    Screenshot of the horizontal navigation bar for an organization. A tab, labeled with the people icon and "Teams," is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Select the team or teams whose visibility you'd like to change.

    Screenshot of the first two teams in the list of teams. To the left of each team, a checkbox is checked and outlined in dark orange.

  5. Above the list of teams, use the drop-down menu and click Change visibility.

    Screenshot of the "Teams" page. Above the list of teams, a dropdown menu, labeled "2 teams selected", is outlined in dark orange.

  6. Select a visibility, then click Change visibility.