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Guides for Issues
Learn how you can use GitHub Issues to plan and track your work.
All GitHub Issues guides
Quickstart for GitHub Issues
QuickstartFollow this brief interactive guide to learn about GitHub Issues.
- 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
Filtering and searching issues and pull requests
How-to guideTo find detailed information about a repository on GitHub Enterprise Server, you can filter, sort, and search issues and pull requests that are relevant to the repository.
- Issues
- Pull requests
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
Viewing all of your issues and pull requests
How-to guideThe Issues and Pull Request dashboards list the open issues and pull requests you've created. 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
Configuring automation for project boards
How-to guideYou can set up automatic workflows to move issues and pull requests to a project board column when a specified event occurs.
- Pull requests
- Projects
- Issues
- Project management
Creating a project board
How-to guideProject boards can be used to create customized workflows to suit your needs, like tracking and prioritizing specific feature work, comprehensive roadmaps, or even release checklists.
- Pull requests
- Issues
- Projects
- Project management
Managing labels
How-to guideYou can classify issues and pull requests 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