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Discoveries — overview

What Discoveries is, who can access it, the 5 tabs, filters, the Discover button, and column sorting.

What is Discoveries?


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Discoveries is where Leanmote shows you the repositories, boards, workflow statuses and Slack channels it found in your connected tools, so you can decide what it should measure.


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The important thing to know first: what Leanmote finds usually starts being measured on its own. With Automatic activation on, a new repo or board is picked up as soon as discovery sees it, and your job is to switch off what you don't want measured — not to approve everything one by one. With the setting off, new items wait paused until you turn them on.


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Who can access it?


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Only users with the Manager or Owner access level. Every endpoint on this page is admin-only, so for other roles the link doesn't appear in the sidebar and the direct URL returns a 403.


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How do I get there?


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Left sidebar → Discoveries. The number next to the title counts the items still waiting for review.


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The four tabs


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Tab

What it contains

Repositories

Repos found in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps.

Boards

Boards found in Jira or Azure Boards.

Statuses

Workflow statuses found on the boards, with an automatic classification.

Channels

Slack channels found through a connected user's credentials.


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People are not a tab here. External people your tools report are on the Users page, under the Discovered segment — "people your connected tools report who are not in Leanmote yet". See Users management.


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Triage segments


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Three segments across the top answer one question — what do I still have to decide?


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Segment

What it shows

Unreviewed

You haven't decided about these yet. This is the queue.

Measuring

Leanmote is extracting data from these.

Switched off

Extractors skip these. Nothing already collected was deleted.


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The Status column


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Inside a segment, each row carries its own status, because "unreviewed" and "already being measured" are not the same thing:


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  • Measuring — Leanmote is extracting data from this one.

  • Paused — found, but nothing is being extracted from it yet.

  • Switched off — extractors skip this one. Nothing already collected was deleted.


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Automatic activation


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The Automatic activation setting decides what happens to new findings:


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  • On — new repos, boards and channels start being measured as soon as Leanmote finds them.

  • Off — new ones stay paused until you switch them on one by one.


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Flipping it never touches what already exists: turn it off and anything already measuring keeps going; turn it on and anything already switched off stays off.


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Exceptions by person and tool opens What gets measured on its own, where you choose what stays out of automatic activation.


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Acting on a row


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Every row has a checkbox, and the actions are the same one way or in bulk:


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  • Measure — start measuring it. For a repo or board that was never active, this asks how much history to load first.

  • Do not measure — extractors skip it from now on. Nothing already collected is deleted, and you can switch it back on from Switched off.


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Bulk works the same: tick rows, or Select all N in this tab, then Measure or Do not measure. It runs in the background, so you can keep working, and an Undo appears right after so a wrong click costs nothing.


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Loading history


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Activating a repo or board that was never measured opens Accept and load data, which asks how much history the initial extraction should include:


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  • 1 month

  • 3 months

  • 6 months

  • 1 year


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Then Confirm and load data queues it. Channels don't ask: their messages are picked up on the next sync.


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Statuses and their classification


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Each discovered status gets classified automatically into one of five buckets, and you can change it in the cell — no dialog:


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  • Backlog

  • Active

  • Waiting

  • Done

  • Unclassified


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The classification is what makes a status count as active time, waiting time or completed work, so a status left in the wrong bucket skews cycle time.


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Looking for new ones now


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Discovery runs by itself daily at 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM. To check immediately — you just connected a tool and want to see what it finds — use the picker in the triage bar: Discover repositories, Discover boards, Discover statuses or Discover channels. It reports back when the run completes and how many new pending items it found; a run already in progress takes your request rather than starting a second one.


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Filtering and sorting


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Each filterable column has its own funnel, so a filter you set from a column is a filter you find again by looking at that column. You can filter by tool, by name, by status, by item type, by board, by channel type and by classification. Sorting works on the sortable headers.


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When the list comes back empty, the empty state tells you which of the three cases you're in: nothing waiting for review, no tools connected yet, or rows that exist but don't pass the current column filters.


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Cheat sheet


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I want to...

I do...

See what still needs a decision

Sidebar → Discoveries → Unreviewed

Start measuring a new repo

Tick it → Measure → pick how much history

Stop measuring something

Tick it → Do not measure

Bring something back

Switched off → tick it → Measure

Fix a status in the wrong bucket

Statuses → change the classification in the cell

Force a discovery run right now

Picker in the triage bar → the entity you want

Stop new findings from auto-activating

Turn Automatic activation off

Map an external person

Users page → Discovered segment


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Related articles


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  • Discoveries — Repositories tab

  • Discoveries — Boards tab

  • Discoveries — Statuses tab

  • Discoveries — Channels tab

  • Discoveries — FAQ

  • Users management

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