docs/content/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-repositories-in-your-enterprise/managing-custom-properties-for-repositories-in-your-enterprise.md

title, intro, permissions, versions, topics, shortTitle

title	intro	permissions	versions	topics	shortTitle
Managing custom properties for repositories in your enterprise	Create custom properties to give organizations a consistent way to categorize repositories.	Enterprise owners	feature custom-properties-enterprise	Repositories	Custom properties

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Promoting organization properties to enterprise properties

You can promote a property from an organization to your enterprise account, to ensure that property name and values are available for use across all organizations in the enterprise.

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1. In the left sidebar, under "Policies", click Custom properties.
2. To see all properties managed by organizations, select Filter and choose the qualifier Managed by and organization as the value, or enter managed-by:organization in the filter bar.
3. Optionally, to see properties managed by a specific organization, select Filter and choose the qualifier Organization and an organization name as the value, or enter org:<ORGANIZATION-NAME> in the filter bar.
4. From the list of properties, select the property name that you want to promote. This takes you to the property details page.
5. To promote the selected property, click Promote to enterprise. The property name must be unique across all organizations in the enterprise otherwise the promotion will not be permitted.
6. Click Promote.