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 #139932
• Issue Types Public Preview #139933
• Advanced Search for Issues Public Preview #139934
• Issues: Index, Create and Show Page Updates Public Preview #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

[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?

[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!

[darpank]

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

[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.

[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.