Filtering repositories in your organization using the repository table

You can filter the repository table for your organization to better manage the security settings of specific repositories.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners and security managers can manage security configurations and global settings for an organization.

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About filtering repositories in your organization

By default, when managing security configurations for repositories in your organization, the repository table displays all repositories in your organization. You can filter the repository table to help you apply and detach security configurations, as well as manage GitHub Advanced Security license usage in your organization.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub.com, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Under your organization name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of the tabs in an organization's profile. The "Settings" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, select the Code security dropdown menu, then click Configurations.

  4. In the "Apply configurations" section, use the Search repositories search bar to filter repositories in your organization in one of two ways:

    • Find repositories by name with free-text search
    • Select filters from the dropdown menu that appears once you click the search bar

Filtering the repository table with the advanced filter builder

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub.com, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Under your organization name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of the tabs in an organization's profile. The "Settings" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  3. In the "Security" section of the sidebar, select the Code security dropdown menu, then click Configurations.

  4. To open the advanced filter dialog, in the "Apply configurations" section, click Filter.

  5. In the "Advanced filters" window, select the Add a filter dropdown menu, then click a filter.

  6. To search for repositories matching the selected filter, fill out the available fields for that filter, then click Apply. You can repeat this process to add as many filters as you would like to your search.

  7. Optionally, to remove a filter from your search, click Filter. In the row of the filter you want to remove, click , then click Apply.