Increased Project Item Limits Public Preview

[github-staff]

Feedback wanted

Thank you for participating in the increased project item limits public preview. Please leave your feedback below on what is working well, any bugs you encounter, and what else you’d like to see!

To provide your feedback on other experiences released at the same time, please visit:

• Sub-issues Public Preview (Opt In roll out) #139932
• Issue Types Public Preview (Opt In roll out) #139933
• Advanced Search for Issues Public Preview (Opt In roll out) #139934
• Issues: Index, Create and Show Page Updates Public Preview (Opt In roll out) #139935

Increased item limits on projects

This beta increases the limit of project items from 1.2k to 50k per project.

Bugs and feedback

As this is still in beta, bugs are expected and reporting of them is welcomed. If you notice any bugs, please drop a comment in the thread below. Screenshots/videos capturing the bug are appreciated. Our team will be triaging the thread and looking to address the bugs as soon as possible.

There are a couple of known bugs/feature gaps:

• As mentioned in the changelog, Insights are not yet supported on this beta.
• There are some minor differences in filtering capabilities between existing Projects and projects with unlimited items. If you notice any that are affecting your daily workflow, please let us know below.
• We are actively working on latency and performance, and we have a couple of known bugs around live update irregularities.

Opting in

If your project is approaching the 1.2k limit and does not utilize Insights, project admins will see this waitlist banner. Click Join waitlist to be added to the beta waitlist. If space allows, your project will be flagged in.

Once you’re flagged in, you will see this beta label on your project.

If you do not see the banner and would like to be added to the waitlist, please comment below with the following template:

Opt-in request

1. Are you the project admin? (Yes/No)
2. Link to the project to be added to the beta
3. Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? (Yes/No)

Opting out

To reiterate, because this is still in private beta, bugs are to be expected. If you encounter bugs that are significantly deteriorating your daily workflow and you would like to opt out of the beta, please opt out in the project settings.

Please note that if your project has surpassed the 1.2k item limit and the project is then flagged out of Projects without Limits, then users will only be able to see the first 1.2k items of the project. To make the project usable again, you will need to archive items to get below the 1.2k limit again.

Note

As we perform maintenance from time to time, your project may be temporarily flagged out. If your project is flagged out for more than a couple of hours, please let us know here so we can remediate.

[Carlos-Manuel-Santafe]

Hola. Acorde a la documentación, no logramos activar version beta, me confirma si ya esta disponible o si nos falta algo en usuario para poderlo realizar. Gracias.

[evi-liu]

I can get you added to the beta! What's the project link?

[Carlos-Manuel-Santafe]

https://github.com/orgs/El-Espectador-TI/projects/7

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been added to the public preview!

[raffadh28]

Have you confirmed if the beta version is restricted to specific user roles or permissions?

[RMSeitz]

Did the ability to "group by" within dashboards also get removed as a result of this beta?

[evi-liu]

Hi there, we had to temporarily disable swimlanes support ("Group by" on the board layout), but it should be working again! Let us know if that's not the case or if you're encountering any irregularities.

[RMSeitz]

Thanks for the update @evi-liu! I think my org will need to wait for this feature to go full GA. The beta has introduced too many new issues affecting our day to day work.

[evi-liu]

@RMSeitz Totally understand! Were there any other bugs you noticed?

[RMSeitz]

It's hard to tell what was an issue and what's been fixed at this point, but losing the ability to "group by" and the insights tab were too critical to our sprint management operations to confidently continue in the beta. I know the "group by" got fixed which is great!

[Carlos-Manuel-Santafe]

Hola. entiendo que si, la necesidad inicial es poder tener mas de los 1200 issues en un proyecto, tenemos varios proyectos pero en particular dos entre abiertos y cerrados tienen mas de esta cantidad. La consulta es como poder activar esta versión beta que entiendo ya tienen esta mejora.

[darpank]

We are seeing an error that feels is recent

I have a Board where the sort is by Milestone. Typically, in the ToDo col there will be no milestone, in the Test col everything will have a milestone.

• We used to be allowed to sort the ToDo col without any problem, now see this error.
• We used to be able to drag and drop without any problem, now see this error.

Thanks!

[dmarcey]

Sorry about this @darpank - we noticed the same regression this morning and have a fix that is currently deploying that should fix what you're seeing. I'll respond here when the change is live for you!

[dmarcey]

The fix should be rolled out, let me know if you still see this - sorry for the disruption!

[darpank]

@dmarcey works as expected now, thanks!

[darpank]

A col when it exceeds the set limit is not causing the header to turn red.

[darpank]

@evi-liu - any idea when this will be fixed? FWIW, this is the second time this area has been impacted. The first time was documented here.

[dmarcey]

@darpank - I believe this should now be fixed - apologies for the disruption!

[darpank]

it is indeed, thanks @dmarcey

[kazza7ambientes]

Do you know when the issue with the header turning red when exceeding the set limit will be fixed?

[darpank]

It has been fixed and does work for us @kazza7ambientes. If you are running into this I would report it in https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/106785#discussioncomment-10871168 as that discussion is now the active one.

[darpank]

I just realized this discussion was closed and then reopened. I hope I did not miss an announcement to not use this discussion anymore or something?

• It looks like all the old comments have been hidden with no option to unhide them.
• Clicking on "Newest", or "Top" returns a 404.

[darpank]

Just realized this is a new discussion, the old one is at https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/106785#discussioncomment-10871168. FWIW, the feeback link in GH projects directs to this new one.

[evi-liu]

Yes, since we have moved out of private beta, we will now be directing all feedback regarding the increased project item limits beta to this thread.

[thompson-shaun]

👋 @evi-liu - Is there any chance the increase in the items limit came with an increase in the number of allowed workflows? We have some teams with several smaller repos and had to split into multiple project boards to accommodate our auto-adds.

[evi-liu]

Hey @thompson-shaun, thanks for the feedback! While increased number of workflows is not in scope for this beta, this is helpful feedback for us improving Projects overall.

[darpank]

The issue# in the project view is no longer a hyperlink? You have to click on the ellipsis and "Open in a new tab".

e.g. when I click on an issue in the project view the URL is similar to:
https://github.com/orgs/org_name/projects/project_id/views/view_id?filterQuery=<query_params>

I used to be able to cmd click on the # 7528 and navigate to https://github.com/org_name/repo_name/issues/7528.

[Nicolas-Innocent]

this,
if there is a good reason for this behavior, please share it, but please reverse that change, or at the very list, add a direct icon to avoid going through the .... menu

[jayspadie]

This was an unrelated change to the side-panel issue header that has now been reverted. The issue number should again be a link. Thanks for reporting and apologies for the churn.

[darpank]

Awesome! Thanks @jayspadie

[CarolinaBJ]

Hola, gracias por esta nueva versión, Presenta bastante lentitud en el tablero, dificulta hacer cambios ya que se demora mucho.

[evi-liu]

Hi, we are actively working on performance. Which scenarios/experiences are slow for you?

[CarolinaBJ]

Cuando doy clic en tablero a un issue se demora en abrirse la ventana derecha con la información del issue. AL reducir las columnas en su ancho se demora o no lo realiza.

[lmorat]

Buenas noches. Gracias por la nueva versión. Sin embargo, se debe revisar que pasa con la carga general del tablero, pues sólo se están visualizando 250 Issues aún cuando la cantidad general es mayor:

[evi-liu]

Hi, thank you for reporting. This is a known bug for us that is prioritized on our backlog.

[heespi]

hi @evi-liu ... congrats on the overall work being done on this beta...

I´m wondering if this bug is still active? It´d be a blocker for our team to adopt this badly needed capability.

[jilladams]

Can confirm that my board is in the beta and we can see >1500 issues in a list.

[JamesSmyth]

Are you the project admin? - Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta - https://github.com/orgs/Eventmap/projects/23
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? - Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been added to the beta!

[zhaojing-ola]

Are you the project admin? - Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta - https://github.com/orgs/olaola-chat/projects/166
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? - Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been added to the beta!

[afhaviez]

Hi There,
We have been added to the "Evolving Beta issue" and I thought this would increase the limit on all our project. Is that not the case. If not could you please increase it for the project below :
Are you the project admin? - Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta - https://github.com/orgs/LuccaSA/projects/80
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? - Yes
Thank you

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been added to the beta!

[aardappel]

Not sure where to leave this feedback, but now that Projects are apparently being worked on again, how about fixing some existing bugs that really make the tool harder to use?

• The popup to select Assignees is incredibly buggy / unpredictable.. depending on what you select / how fast you select / what you click on to exit the popup, certain new Assignees are ignored / not set. Meaning you have to check it and try again. I noticed that if I click on the same line of the current issue to exit it often works, but click elsewhere it often goes wrong.

• When you use the Status popup to move something from Priority 1 to Priority 2, say, it will move the issue to the END of Priority 2, even though the natural ordering would be to put it at the start. This means that every time I move an issue, I need to go find it at its new location and move it to a better spot within the category.

These are operations I do all the time, so them misbehaving is very time consuming.

[evi-liu]

Hi @aardappel, thanks for reporting this helpful feedback. Are you experiencing these bugs on the increased project item limits beta or on projects without the beta?

[aardappel]

I am experiencing them both before and after joining the beta. They've always been there.

[ronlipke]

Opt-in request! So excited for this.

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: https://github.com/orgs/muxinc/projects/26
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been added to the beta!

[aloknnikhil]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: https://github.com/orgs/omnistrate/projects/16
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[aloknnikhil]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: https://github.com/orgs/omnistrate/projects/22
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[pturnerkcr]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: https://github.com/orgs/kcrbba/projects/11
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[mattchenderson]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: https://github.com/orgs/Azure/projects/473
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[kenzht]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/15, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/27, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/29, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/35, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/1, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/26, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/34, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/17, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/16, https://github.com/orgs/enexia-gh/projects/7
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your projects have now been flagged in!

[afhaviez]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[agilesteel]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[dagskage]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[defsteph]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[evi-liu]

Your project has now been flagged in!

[aardappel]

You just changed the UI for adding draft items (which we use a LOT to quickly jot down tasks) to requiring CTRL+ENTER.

So now when I press ENTER, I have to cancel the window that comes up, to try again with CTRL+ENTER.

I'd ask you undo this UI change, but if it must stay this way, at least add a "Draft" option to the window that pops up, so my work flow is quicker.

[evi-liu]

Noted on the request to enable draft creation on the window that pops up. I have this logged as an issue on our end!

[alan-anderson-ai]

I would like to opt in to this feature. See the below information:

1. Are you the project admin? Yes
2. Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
3. Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[rolfsmeds]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[CalArcher]

Opt-in request

1. Are you the project admin? Yes
2. Link to the project to be added to the beta: Project Link
3. Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes

[darpank]

(I am not sure if this is the right place to pose this question, but this discussion and the community here are awesome so will start here :-))

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I see now that when adding issues from inside a Project View that I am able to choose the template right in the UI. This is great.

However, even if I choose the Bug template, the issue that gets created is labeled with both Bug and Enhancement. Do I need to adjust anything with the template config?

Thanks! DK.

[ebndev]

Hi @darpank, thanks for being a part of the GitHub Community!

To keep this discussion on topic, I suggest you create a new post for visibility and it might help someone give you a nudge in the right direction. 😁

[darpank]

Will do, thanks @ebndev

[sam-cox-tracebit]

Opt-in request

Are you the project admin? Yes
Link to the project to be added to the beta: Link
Do you understand that Insights is not yet supported? Yes