Guides for Issues
Learn how you can use GitHub Issues to plan and track your work.
Quickstart for GitHub Issues
QuickstartFollow this brief interactive guide to learn about GitHub Issues.
- Issues
- Project management
Quickstart for Projects
QuickstartExperience the speed, flexibility, and customization of Projects by creating a project in this interactive guide.
- Projects
Planning and tracking work for your team or project
OverviewThe essentials for using GitHub's planning and tracking tools to manage work on a team or project.
- Project management
- Projects
Best practices for Projects
OverviewLearn tips for managing your projects.
- Projects
- Issues
- Project management
Creating an issue
How-to guideIssues can be created in a variety of ways, so you can choose the most convenient method for your workflow.
- Pull requests
- Issues
- Project management
Creating a project
TutorialLearn how to create an organization or user project.
- Projects
Managing issue types in an organization
OverviewLearn about issue types and how to manage them in your organization.
- Project management
Adding sub-issues
OverviewLearn about using sub-issues to break down your work into tasks.
- Project management
Creating issue dependencies
OverviewLearn how to create issue dependencies so that you can see which issues are blocked by, or blocking, other work.
- Project management
Filtering and searching issues and pull requests
How-to guideTo find detailed information about a repository on GitHub, you can filter, sort, and search issues and pull requests that are relevant to the repository.
- Issues
- Pull requests
Viewing all issues and pull requests
How-to guideThe Issues and Pull Request dashboards list the open issues and pull requests you've created, as well as your saved views. You can use them to update items that have gone stale, close them, or keep track of where you've been mentioned across all repositories—including those you're not subscribed to.
- Pull requests
- Issues
Managing labels
How-to guideYou can classify issues, pull requests, and discussions by creating, editing, applying, and deleting labels.
- Pull requests
- Issues
- Project management
Creating and editing milestones for issues and pull requests
How-to guideYou can create a milestone to track progress on groups of issues or pull requests in a repository.
- Pull requests
- Issues
- Project management
Understanding fields
Learn about the different fields and custom field types, how to add fields to your project, and how to manage custom fields.
- Issues
- Projects
Customizing views in your project
You can create multiple views to look at your project from different angles, deciding which items to show and how to present them.
- Issues
- Projects
Creating charts
TutorialLearn how to create new charts to save your configurations.
- Projects
Managing project templates in your organization
TutorialYou can create templates or set projects as templates in your organization, allowing other people to select your template as the base for projects they create.
- Projects
Using the built-in automations
TutorialYou can use built-in workflows to automate your projects.
- Projects
Using the API to manage Projects
TutorialYou can use the GraphQL API to automate your projects.
- Projects
Adding items to your project
TutorialLearn how to add pull requests, issues, and draft issues to your projects individually or in bulk.
- Projects
Automating Projects using Actions
TutorialYou can use GitHub Actions to automate your projects.
- Projects