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# Issues **(FREE)**
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Use issues to collaborate on ideas, solve problems, and plan work.
Share and discuss proposals with your team and with outside collaborators.
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You can use issues for many purposes, customized to your needs and workflow.
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- Discuss the implementation of an idea.
- Track tasks and work status.
- Accept feature proposals, questions, support requests, or bug reports.
- Elaborate on code implementations.
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For more information about using issues, see the GitLab blog post:
[Always start a discussion with an issue ](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/03/03/start-with-an-issue/ ).
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Issues are always associated with a specific project. If you have multiple
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projects in a group, you can view all of the projects' issues at once.
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To learn how the GitLab Strategic Marketing department uses GitLab issues with [labels ](../labels.md ) and
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[issue boards ](../issue_board.md ), see the video on
[Managing Commitments with Issues ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIHNintg1o&t=3 ).
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## Related topics
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- [Create issues ](managing_issues.md#create-a-new-issue )
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- [Create an issue from a template ](../../project/description_templates.md#use-the-templates )
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- [Edit issues ](managing_issues.md#edit-an-issue )
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- [Move issues ](managing_issues.md#moving-issues )
- [Close issues ](managing_issues.md#closing-issues )
- [Delete issues ](managing_issues.md#deleting-issues )
- [Promote issues ](managing_issues.md#promote-an-issue-to-an-epic )
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- [Set a due date ](due_dates.md )
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- [Import issues ](csv_import.md )
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- [Export issues ](csv_export.md )
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- [Upload designs to issues ](design_management.md )
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- [Linked issues ](related_issues.md )
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- [Similar issues ](managing_issues.md#similar-issues )
- [Health status ](managing_issues.md#health-status )
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- [Cross-link issues ](crosslinking_issues.md )
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- [Sort issue lists ](sorting_issue_lists.md )
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- [Search for issues ](../../search/index.md#filter-issue-and-merge-request-lists )
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- [Epics ](../../group/epics/index.md )
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- [Issue boards ](../issue_board.md )
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- [Issues API ](../../../api/issues.md )
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- [Configure an external issue tracker ](../../../integration/external-issue-tracker.md )
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- [Tasks ](../../tasks.md )
