Can I block or prevent users to move cards between kanban columns? I just want the kanban as a view only.
Hi Eddy. Iām not sure what you want is possible, since the whole point of kanban is the ability to move cards easily across columns.
If you only need 3 or 4 columns with equal width, you can now set columns in the general options of containers.
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Iāve been able to accomplish this ā I can move cards up and down inside a column, but canāt move cards from one column to another.
I think the trick is to the set the category as a computed column that pulls the data from a different source ā in my case, my Category is a lookup column. This means that if I were able to move a card from column A to column B, Iād be changing the result of the Lookup, which doesnāt make sense because itās coming from a different table.
Itās not completely static, as you can still move cards up and down within a column. For my case though, my columns are categorized by User, so one user canāt move an item into another userās list, they can only move things within their own column.
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Thatās neat!
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Can this be used to prioritize a list that has already been filtered?
Example:
There are thousands of contractors in our network that provide services in Jimās area. Because he is only looking to install tile floors the list is narrowed down to 712 qualified bidders. Filters like budget, scheduling requirements, warranty, and his rating requirements for multiple things like workmanship, timeliness, and professionalism have further narrowed the list to 361 potential bidders. Once the time to bid has ended Jim is left with 219 contractors to choose from and that is a LOT of bids to reviewā¦ Can this be used to determine the order in which the bids are listed based on the priority he places on his filters? Assuming budget it #1, the lowest bids would be placed at the top of the list, etc.
As long as the entire interface is within the Kanban view, then yesāthe order of cards can be consistent across all users. However, the order of the kanban cards in no way determine the sort of records/rows in any other style of collection.
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Thank you for this very helpful topic discussion. On thing that I didnāt see covered is changing the order of the Kanban categories. I noticed that Glideapp has recently changed the way categories are handled as they are no longer added in the menu system.
I donāt want my columns presented left to right alphabetically because the represent process steps that arenāt alphatbetical. But Glideapp seems to place the columns alphabetically.
I havenāt ever used kanban, but it seems that you can use Custom Groups to set up groups in the order that you want.
Thank you so much! Your explanation of the term āCustom Groupsā solved it for me. This tutorial must be somewhat old/dated. He used the term āCategoriesā in his video tutorial and I didnāt make the connection that they were referring to the same thing. The interface also looks different.
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I presented this idea to my colleague, but she has another idea: she would like the kanban to work vertically: so to sort cards and categorize vertically in a column.
Is this possible?
Should beā¦.but the only problem is that the sorting only exists in the Kanban viewā¦the sorting values wonāt exist or make sense anywhere else in the app.