How to Customize Columns in Kanban Board?


People ask this question quite often as probably there’s no quick shortcut from Kanban Board/Task board to the screen where customization is done.

Now, let’s see how we can change/add states for User Stories in Kanban board. The key to customizing columns is essentially changing states for User Stories. So, here’s our Kanban board:

kanban-board-1

We’ve got 5 states for User Stories in there: Planned, In Progress, In Testing, Analysis, Done.  Let’s suppose we want to remove Analysis column and replace it with Ready to Merge Column.

We need to go to Admin-Processes, and select the Process used for our Project (Kanban process in our case). Then we go to Workflow for User Story:

workflows-for-user-story

All of our existing states for User Stories are in there. Let’s now edit the states - replace the Analysis with Ready to Merge State:

analysis-ready-to-merge1

Don’t forget to click Save in the Add/Edit Entity State window, then Save Workflow.

Now let’s see what happens with the columns in our Kanban board:

ready-to-merge-state-added

Ready to Merge column is right there!

This works the same for Task Board. You need to add/edit/remove states for Tasks in Admin-Processes-Task-Workflow-Change State to customize columns in Task Board.

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  • shameemferdous
    I've deleted one/two states (and added few more) from User Stories of my Process, but still the deleted once are appearing in the Kanban Board as columns along with the new once. How can I remove them from the Kanban Board? Anybody- give me some idea please...
  • Make sure that you do not have such states for Bug as well. Since Kanban Board shows states from Bugs and Stories.
  • They now come with "Ready to Merge" state.
  • What happens with entries which had the previous state "Analysis"?
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