Creating issues, setting milestones and assigning issues to collaborators

1. Go to your GitHub Organization repository.

2. Click on the Issues tab to open GitHub Issues. Click on the New Issue button to create a new issue.

   

3. Enter the details about the change required.

   a. In this instance, you will create 2 issues, one issue to remove Ordered by label from the Purchase Order header and the other issue to add a Product ID column to the Order Details table.

   b. Click on the Labels and assign it as Enhancement. Labels can be used to categorize issues into bug/enhancements and custom labels even.

   

   c. You can assign a specific collaborator to work on a issue. To do this, click on Assignees and select the collaborator who will work on this.

   

   d. You can set milestones for specific issues. Milestones are how similar issues and deadlines can be set and categorized. To create a milestone, click on the Milestone and enter a name for the milestone. If it doesn’t exist, you will be prompted to create them.

   

   e. Click on Submit new issue to create the new issue.

4. Once the issue is created, you can add comments, discuss about and even add emoji to express your interest in the issue.

   

5. You can assign deadlines for milestones.

   a. To do this, click on Issues tab of your GitHub organization repository. Then click on the Milestones tab.

   

   b. Click on Edit and assign a due date.

   

   C. Click on Save changes to update the milestone.

   

6. Similarly, you can create new milestones, update existing ones and check for status of current milestones from this page.

   

Next Steps

• Creating branches in GitHub, switching branches and updating application in different branch in SAP Web IDE