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Card Status Roles

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Overview

Card statuses tell the current stage or condition of a card, to help you with the categorization of your work. There are five available card status roles to choose from. Each of them has a different icon and meaning.

Card status roles:

  •  Information – for cards that contain important information but are not executable.
  •  Not started – it points to tasks that are not currently performed.
  •  In progress – for cards that are already in progress of completing it.
  •  Completed – a status indicating completion of a card. 
  •  Cancelled – for cards that have been stopped and cannot be completed.

The purpose of card statuses is to show the progress of card realization. Your workflow can consist of as many steps as needed to finally complete the task.

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Example: Ideas status with Information role, No funds status with Cancelled role, To do status with Not started role, three statuses: Doing, Ready for translation, and Ready to present with In progress role, and Done status with Completed role.

As you can see, a role for status can appear many times in a space or not at all. You can select multiple statuses to share the same role.

Work-related status roles

Card status roles with a circular border icon are associated with the stages of work on the task. There are 4 such statuses: Not started, In progress, Completed, and Cancelled.

Inside each card is a progress bar that shows the card’s workflow, with the current status highlighted.

Example: Card with the Ready for translation status with In progress role. Card statuses with Information and Cancelled roles are not displayed in the progress bar.

Cards that have statuses with work-related roles are included in the work progress calculation.

Information status role

Information status role can be used for cards that only store information. Since it does not represent the progress of completing a card, statuses with that role are not visualized in the progress bar.

Example: Card status Ideas with Information role is not displayed in the card progress bar.

Cards that have statuses with Information role are not included in the work progress calculation.

Changing the card status role

Only space owners can manage card status roles.

To change the card status role:

  1. Open the space.
  2. On the space top bar, go to More (the three-dot menu), and then select Card statuses.
  3. Select the status, go to Role, and select the new role.
  4. Confirm the changes with the Save button.

You can also use card grouping settings to change the card status role.

FAQ

Card status is a feature in KanBo that shows the progress of a card realization and indicates what stage your task is in.

Every card front has a circle around the status icon, which shows the work calculation progress.

No, a card can only be assigned to just one status at a time.

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