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Card Icons

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Overview

If you look at the space, you will see the card fronts with various icons. They represent the contents of the card. Icons are helpful for categorizing tasks and observing the progress of work. Colors give them additional power.

Card icons are brief information about what you can see inside the card. You can either turn off the visibility or change the order of card details icons but there are two icons that have their own special place – the status icon and the responsible person icon.

Card icons are visible on card fronts in the Kanban, List, and Mind Map view.

Legend

Card fronts can have many icons, but they are organized according to precise rules. In the upper left corner we can observe the progress of the card realization. In the upper right corner we have information about the card users. Below the card name we have the card details.

Card status icons

The card status icon symbolizes the state the card is in at the current moment.

The bold line shows the work progress.

There are 5 available card status roles. Each of them has a different icon:

  •   Not started
  •   In progress
  •   Completed
  •   Cancelled
  •   Information

Card users icons

       The avatar of the responsible person with the number of co-workers 

Card details icons

Learn about the meanings of the icons:

  •   start date – the date set for the start of the card
  •   due date – the date set for the end of the card
  •   creation date – the date of card creation
  •   completed date – date of changing the card status to the status with Completed role
  •   age – number of days since card creation
  •   list – all card lists the card belongs to
  •   label- all labels assigned to the card
  • 2/5 – number of subcards (completed/all)
  •   card name – the name of the default parent card
  • 5/5 – number of subitems from a to-do list (completed/all)
  •   Mirror – that card is a mirror card
  •   home space – the name of the home space of that card

Card date icons change their color as the deadline approaches.

Card icons visibility

You can decide what details will be visible on card fronts in the space. At any time, you can hide the ones you don’t need and show only the ones that are relevant to your work. Use display settings to manage the card fronts look.

FAQ

Cards are the most fundamental units of KanBo. They can represent tasks or projects that need to be tracked and managed. Its complex structure helps with work organization.

Yes, you can manage the visibility of the card details icons in the display settings and decide what kind of information you want to see on the card front.

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