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Kanban

Kanban is a powerful tool in project management. Kanban board, digital or physical, is a monitoring and visualizing working progress at either a personal or organisational level. Kanban is widely used in software development especially in Agile teams.

Kanban Board Example

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Getting Started with Kanban View

The Kanban provided in Mythradon can be broken in to 2 parts: Columns and items. The column and its name represent a status of an item, the is item could be a task or anything that has multiple statuses in an organisation business process, in Kanban View, we call these items Cards. When you drag a card from one column to another in Kanban View, you also change the status of it.

To start working with a Kanban view in Mythradon, click the Kanban icon in the top right corner.

The following screenshot shows an example of Kanban View in Mythradon with different items in Task entity.

Kanban View Example

You can view more detailed information about every card, edit it and remove cards by clicking the drop-down menu at the right corner.

Kanban View Card Detail

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Adding Kanban View to an Entity

Note: Kanban View is only available for entities that have a drop-down list as this list will be used as column names to group the records of these entities as cards.

To add Kanban View to the Entity layout:

  • Select Administration | Entity Manager from the Menu Button
  • Select the Entity that you wish to edit
  • Click Edit button
  • Select the checkbox Kanban View
  • In the dropdown Status Field, select the field which you want to be used as the statuses (or column name) on the Kanban View.

You can also configure fields that you wish to not be displayed on Kanban View by specify them in Ignored groups in Kanban view. i.e) It is not relevant to track cancelled or deferred tasks.

Kanban View Adding to Entity

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To configure which fields displayed at a card

You can also configure what information is displayed on the cards. In order to add or remove some fields from the card, you can follow one of the two ways:

From Layout Manager:

  • Select Administration | Layout Manager from the Menu Button
  • Select the Entity that you wish to edit
  • Select Kanban
  • Drag the fields you wish to add to a card on Kanban View and click Save.

From Entity Manager:

  • Select Administration | Entity Manager from the Menu Button
  • Select the Entity that you wish to edit
  • Drag the fields you wish to add to a card on Kanban View and click Save.

Kanban View Fields

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See also

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