Enforcing project board policies in your enterprise account

Enterprise owners can enforce certain project board policies for all organizations owned by an enterprise account, or allow policies to be set in each organization.

Enterprise accounts are available with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "About enterprise accounts."

For more information about types of project boards, see "About project boards."

Enforcing a policy for organization-wide project boards

Across all organizations owned by your enterprise account, you can enable or disable organization-wide project boards, or allow owners to administer the setting on the organization level.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises. "Your enterprises" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub

  2. In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view. Name of an enterprise in list of your enterprises

  3. In the enterprise sidebar, click Policies. Policies tab in the enterprise account sidebar

  4. In the left sidebar, click Projects. Projects tab in the enterprise account settings sidebar

  5. 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. Link to view the current policy configuration for organizations in the business

  6. Under "Organization projects", use the drop-down menu and choose a policy. Drop-down menu with organization project board policy options

Enforcing a policy for repository project boards

Across all organizations owned by your enterprise account, you can enable or disable repository-level project boards, or allow owners to administer the setting on the organization level.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises. "Your enterprises" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub

  2. In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view. Name of an enterprise in list of your enterprises

  3. In the enterprise sidebar, click Policies. Policies tab in the enterprise account sidebar

  4. In the left sidebar, click Projects. Projects tab in the enterprise account settings sidebar

  5. 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. Link to view the current policy configuration for organizations in the business

  6. Under "Repository projects", use the drop-down menu and choose a policy. Drop-down menu with repository project board policy options

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