Saved views for repository issues - public preview and adjustable row heights

[sunnyi101]

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If you manage issues in a busy repo, you know how much time goes into re-applying the same filters every day. You filter down to unassigned bugs, work through them, then rebuild the same filter tomorrow. Multiply that across a team and everyone is recreating the same searches over and over.

Saved views for repository issues are now available in public preview. Set up a filtered view once, save it, and everyone on the repo can use it. No extra tooling, no workflow changes. We've also added adjustable row heights in Projects so you can fit more information into your tables.

How it works

Anyone with triage access or above can create shared views like Unassigned bugs, Needs triage, or Customer-reported issues. Set them up once, and the whole team gets the same view.

• Saved views live in the new Issues sidebar, alongside quick links like Assigned to me, Created by me, Mentioned, and Recent activity
• The sidebar gives GitHub Projects a new home, so it's easier to move from Issues into your planning views
• You can save up to 25 views per repository, so teams can cover the searches they run most
• Milestones and Labels are now easier to reach from the same sidebar

The goal is simple: stop rebuilding the same searches, and give your team one shared place to find the issues that matter.

📐 Adjustable row heights in Projects

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You can now set the row height in Projects table layouts. Open the view options, pick the row height option, and choose between Single, Medium, Tall, or Extra Tall.

Taller rows give cells more room for longer titles, labels, and extra fields without truncation. The setting only affects the table layout, and you can save it as part of a view so it sticks for everyone.

💬 Feedback

We're actively iterating on this and your input directly shapes what comes next. We'd love to hear:

1. Are saved views easy to set up and share across your team?
2. Does the new sidebar make it easier to find the issues and projects that matter most?
3. Do the row height options give you the right amount of space in your tables?

Share feedback, report issues, or suggest ideas in this discussion.

[Josh65-2201]

No Issue view is working for me, they always fail to load but not when using the normal issues page with the same search terms

[sunnyi101]

We're actively fixing this!

[bytaesu]

It would be nice to have an option to hide this sidebar.

[JourneyOver]

Yep I'm with you there, would be nice to have an option to hide the sidebar completely since as it currently stands it just does not provide any benefit at all.

[srnyx]

I personally like it. It makes it a lot quicker to see my issues and custom views.

However, I do have a much wider screen than what you show in your video, @bytaesu. So I understand how it can feel like wasted space in your scenario and I think some way to fully disable the sidebar (like in settings or something) would be nice. But I disagree that it "doesn't provide any real benefit."

[bytaesu]

What benefit do you see in it? The sidebar is just a collection of buttons for simple actions that were already available on the same page. It doesn't add anything new... it just takes up more space.

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Also, putting the footer under the sidebar is a terrible UX. It keeps moving up and down as you scroll, which is really distracting.

[bytaesu]

If it were up to me, instead of these fixed sidebar buttons, I'd let users add custom queries as buttons. The current buttons are really just basic search filters.

I'd also redefine the concept of "Views". A View would simply represent a set of custom buttons shown in the sidebar. Users could create buttons from any custom query, then organize those buttons into different Views.

The current Issues slot on the sidebar could become something like New Filter or New Button.

[iAJue]

I strongly agree with this proposal.

[romgerman]

There is no way to disable this feature preview in the "Feature Preview" setting dialog.

[msfredb7]

Minor feedback: I'd like to see my views directly in the sidebar to save 1 click. The goal of views is to save clicks, but having to click twice might result in me being to lazy to use them.

NB: The views I'm creating are nothing crazy big.

[ta-hoshino]

I agree with this opinion as well.

If I were to add one suggestion, it would be to allow users to choose which views appear in the sidebar. The reason is that always displaying views that are not used frequently but are needed occasionally can make the sidebar feel cluttered.

[AThousandShips]

The sidebar keeps popping out to full size before collapsing each time the page reloads which makes it very disruptive, it also takes up excessive space on small screens, I think this should be something you can disable

[AThousandShips]

Also the folding of the side bar is not remembered across multiple tabs, which makes it very impractical when navigating the website, for example opening just closed issues or filtering by a specific tag

[CST1229]

Extremely minor nitpick: I don't like how the sidebar pushes away the rest of the issues page, making the page off-center, even when collapsed. It's just mildly annoying to me. Not sure how this should be fixed, or if it even should be 'fixed'. (One of: option to hide the sidebar entirely, center the page when collapsed, center the page always, or don't change anything)

Though I DO like how it finally gives a rather discoverable-ish way to get to the milestones page, instead of "edit the URL to add /milestones".

[srnyx]

I think moving the sidebar to the right side and then keeping the main content (issues list/etc.) still centered would look a lot better. (and decreasing the width of the main content of course to accomodate the sidebar)

It would feel too squished if the sidebar was on the left and the main content was still centered. But with the sidebar on the right, the issue titles/metadata is no longer near the sidebar, creating a natural separation, rather than a forced one.

This of course impacts the expected "sidebar on the left" design. But, I do think it makes some sense to have it on the right, as individual issue pages have their sidebars (assignees, labels, projects, etc.) on the right too.

[Neustradamus]

Dear @sunnyi101,

Thanks for your changes, can you add a difference between merged and closed PR?
Currently, it is same, and it is hard to look.

Specified ticket here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/200174

At the same time, other tickets are:

• On profile "Only you can see your full profile" box has a dead link -> "Send feedback": https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/196826
• Improvement the privacy of user profiles: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/196827
• Can you change the default download "repositoryname-branchname" filename to "githubusername-repositoryname-branchname"?: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/167771
• Search in a specified branch is impossible (it is only possible with the default branch): https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/200175

Thanks in advance.

[Neustradamus]

@sunnyi101: Have you seen?

[opwise-Jeff]

Ability to set one view as the default view for issues for that repo would make this an awesome addition!

[michael-conrad]

HOW DO YOU DISABLE THIS EVIL THING COMPLETELY?

[connorshea]

it'd be nice if the sidebar were collapsible globally so I don't have to re-collapse it on every repo.

[sunnyi101]

Thank you for the feedback! We're going to be resolving this soon

[bomeejung]

Love the new views. Is it possible to have a dynamic filter criterion (like, milestone:latest for the most recently created or milestone:due)?
The link to Projects doesn't add anything IMHO.

[Hamham6]

EDIT: This is on Firefox 150, macOS 15.7.5
If the display is wide enough that the sidebar doesn't automatically collapse, but not wide enough that it gets placed properly next to the issues, then this illegible overlapping off the sidebar and the issues happens. In addition, the sidebar gets pushed way up if you scroll up, so there is just the sidebar and blank space with nothing there.

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[sunnyi101]

Thank you we are actively investigating this!

[Hamham6]

The "report issues" link to here on the sidebar and the active responses from the author are very convenient and appreciated!

[sunnyi101]

Appreciate it!

[ArthurKun21]

Please make it remember if I collapsed it or not, so that whenever I go to another repo's issue it would remember it and I don't have to toggle it again

[nebbii]

Not a fan of having the sidebar on half screen width browser windows