Card Icons

KanBo licenses having this feature:

Free

Team

Professional

Business

Enterprise

Strategic

In this article:

Overview

If you look at the space, you will see the cards 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 cards in the Kanban, List, and Mind Map view.

Meaning of card icons

Cards 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 members. 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.

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The bold line shows the work progress.

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

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

Card members icons

       The avatar of the responsible person with the number of contributors 

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 deadline of the card
  •   Creation date – the date of card creation
  •   Completed date – date of changing the card status to the status with the Completed type
  •   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 main card
  • 5/5 – number of checklist items (completed/all)
  •   Mirror card – 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 cards in the space view. At any time, you can hide the ones you don’t need and display only the ones that are relevant to your work. Use display settings to customise the appearance of the cards.

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 cards.

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