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Disabling project boards in your organization

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Organization owners can turn off organization-wide project boards and repository project boards in an organization.

After you disable organization-wide projects, it won’t be possible to create new projects at the organization level, and any existing organization-level projects will become inaccessible at their previous URLs. Project boards in repositories in the organization are not affected.

After you disable repository-level project boards in an organization, it won't be possible to create new project boards in any repositories in the organization, and any existing project boards in repositories in the organization will become inaccessible at their previous URLs. Project boards at the organization level are not affected.

When project boards are disabled, you will no longer see project board information in timelines or audit logs.

Disabling project boards in your 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. Next to the organization, click Settings.

  3. In the "Code planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click Projects.

  4. Decide whether to disable project boards in your organization. Then, under Projects:

    • To disable project boards, unselect Enable Projects for the organization.
    • To enable project boards in the organization, select Enable Projects for the organization.

  5. Click Save.

If you decide to re-enable project boards, any project boards that were previously added will be available.

Managing project boards in your organization's repositories

You can control whether organization members can create project boards in repositories in your organization. You can still disable project boards in individual repositories. For more information, see "Disabling project boards in a repository."

  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. Next to the organization, click Settings.

  3. In the "Code planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click Projects.

  4. Decide whether to allow members to create project boards in repositories in your organization. Then, under Projects:

    • To enable project boards in repositories, select Enable projects for all repositories.
    • To disable project boards in repositories, unselect Enable projects for all repositories.

  5. Click Save.

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