Identify issue boards by using GraphQL

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  • Offering: GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated

You can identify issue boards for a project by using:

Use GraphiQL

You can use GraphiQL to list the issue boards for a project.

  1. Open GraphiQL:

    • For GitLab.com, use: https://gitlab.com/-/graphql-explorer
    • For GitLab Self-Managed, use: https://gitlab.example.com/-/graphql-explorer

  2. Copy the following text and paste it in the left window. This query gets issue boards for the docs-gitlab-com repository.

    query {
  project(fullPath: "gitlab-org/technical-writing/docs-gitlab-com") {
    name
    forksCount
    statistics {
      wikiSize
    }
    issuesEnabled
    boards {
      nodes {
        id
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

  3. Select Play.

To view one of these issue boards, copy a numeric identifier from the output. For example, if the identifier is 7174622, use this URL to go to the issue board:

https:/gitlab.com/gitlab-org/technical-writing/docs-gitlab-com/-/boards/7174622