# User to Add Columns to a kanban view

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-to-add-columns-to-a-kanban-view/62737>\
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**Created:** [June 14, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-to-add-columns-to-a-kanban-view/62737 "2023-06-14T06:11:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![AbdulGhafor\_abbas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/abdulghafor_abbas/32/56019_2.png) [@AbdulGhafor\_abbas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/AbdulGhafor_abbas)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-to-add-columns-to-a-kanban-view/62737/1 "2023-06-14T06:11:03Z")

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i have a list of projects were each project have his own Kanban board.  
i want the user to configure the number of columns for each board  
if a user wants to configure board 1 for project 1 to be 3 columns (to do- doing-done)  
and for project 2 wants to configure a different Kanban view to be 4 columns (unstarted-started-delayed-done)…etc  
how can we achieve this ? and how the structure of the table will be?  
i know it can be done somehow.or by any workaround.  
thanks

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-to-add-columns-to-a-kanban-view/62737/2 "2023-06-14T23:08:17Z")

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I think you might be able to have a setup like this.

- Add a number of “Kanban value” columns to your user profiles table (say Kanban 1, Kanban 2, Kanban 3).

- Configure a screen on top of the User Profiles table, filter the screen to email is signed-in user.

- Add a container to show them entries to fill in.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/b/ebd12a6dd9dabc2aacc456cd46202fa5e05ad0b0.png)

- Add a kanban component and construct those values as “custom groups”.

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Make sure you group by the “status” column in your Projects table (I assume that’s what you are referring to here).

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-to-add-columns-to-a-kanban-view/62737/3 "2023-06-16T05:53:30Z")

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thank you very much for your reply, i found a workaround to allow the user to create a board then create a column then create a card inside that column, but i ran into a problem, ifa column is empty then it disappears. i don’t want that behaviour at all. i tried to add an empty card when creating a column automatically but i couldn’t filter it from the view. i don’t know what to do other than prevent user from deleting a card if it is the only one in the column but that makes no sense. any ideas? @ThinhDinh