The card view

Settings → Card view, or /p/{projectId}/settings/card.

A card is small on purpose, and what belongs on it is not the same for two teams. One board needs a due date on every card; another needs the label colours and nothing else. This page says which it is.

It belongs to the project, not to you and not to a view, so everybody looking at that board sees the same card. It saves as you click — there is no Save button, and the card on the right redraws as you go, because it is the board’s own card drawing your project’s own tasks.

What a row is

Every row is one thing a card could carry. Most are your properties. Five are parts a task has of its own, and they behave the same way:

Row	What it draws
Task ID	`USH-14`
Title	The task title. It cannot move and cannot come off
Description	One or two lines of it, in the body
Checklist	A bar and `2/5`, or just `2/5`
Children	A bar and `3/5`, or just `3/5`: the parts done
Comments	A speech bubble and a count

The six places

Open a row’s On card cell and the small card in the panel is the map. Click a box.

┌─┬──────────────────┐
│ │  L          R    │   header: two ends of one row
│E│  ────────────    │   the title, which never moves
│ │  [   BODY    ]   │
│ │  L          R    │   footer: two ends of one row
└─┴──────────────────┘
 └ the edge stripe

Left and right are the two ends of the same row, so a header can carry the priority colour on one side and a face on the other. Rows sharing a place follow the order of the properties. Drag a property in Settings → Properties to put it in front of its neighbours: the same drag orders the task panel and the columns of a list. The task’s own rows stand fixed around the properties — the key, the title and the description before them, the checklist and the comments after. One exception: a row that reads as Colour (or a person as an Avatar) carries no words, so it opens its place — the priority square sits in front of the key.

Take off the card puts a row in Not shown. It keeps its place in the list, and the foot of the page counts what is left: 10 of 12 on the card.

The edge stripe

A stripe of colour down the left of every card. One property at a time, and only a property that has colours of its own — a select, a multi-select or a person. Ask a date for the edge and the box is closed, and the row says why. Giving the edge to a second property takes the first one off the card, and the panel says so before you click.

The edge is also what the task panel takes its band colour from.

How a row reads

Kind	Modes
Select, multi-select	Both (dot and name) · Colour (a square) · Text
Person	Avatar · Name · Both
Task ID, date, text, number, checkbox	Plain · Boxed
Link	Plain · Boxed
Description	2 lines · 1 line
Checklist	Bar · Count
Children	Bar · Count

A multi-select draws one part per value, so three labels are three squares. A Link draws one part for all its links: the first one, and +N for the rest — acme/shop#12 +2. It is words, not a link, so a click on it opens the task. A new Link property starts in Not shown.

Asking an edge row for words moves it into the header, because a stripe has nowhere to put them.

What a card actually draws

Only what the task holds. A task with no due date has a shorter footer than the one beside it, and neither leaves a gap. A header with nothing in it is not drawn at all.

Reset to default

Back to the card Ushabti drew before this page existed: the first select colour and the task ID in the header, the assignee and the labels closing it, everything else in the footer, and the property the board is grouped by left off, because the column already says it.

The card view is shared by everybody on the board, so the button asks first and counts the rows it moves:

Reset the card view for everyone? 3 rows go back to the default. — Yes, reset · Cancel

When the card is already the default there is nothing to reset, and the button is off.

SettingsThe five settings pages, and how a destructive action asks.