Lanes

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Introduction to Lanes

Lanes are board areas containing cards or other lanes. They allow to organize the layout of the board and provide the best configuration for the target activity or process to support. For example, they typically represent the process steps.

Read the Boards page to learn how to create and change the layout of lanes. In this page, you will learn how to mange specific settings and use commands on lanes.

Lane settings

To access lane settings double click with the left mouse button the lane header (where the name of the label is printed) or use the lane context menu (click on ...) and choose Options.

Remember that you need to have the board edit layout privilege to access lane settings, see Boards privileges.

Options are organized in different forms: General, Appearance, Association and Options.

The following table, explains the available settings for General.

Setting Use
Description This is the name of the lane appearing on its header.
Type This setting can be defined only at lane creation time. Afterwards it is read only. It defines the type of lane (composite lane or card lane) and therefore its behaviour. For more information on lane types, see Types of lanes.
Width (cards#) This setting defines the width of the lane in number of cards that can fit horizontally. This setting can be changed any time.
Height (cards#) This setting defines the height of the lane in number of cards that can fit vertically. This setting can be changed any time.

The following table, explains the available settings for Appearance.

Setting Use
Color This defines the background colour of the header of the lane.
Text Color This defined the colour of the text for the title of the lane.

The following table, explains the available settings for Association.

Setting Use
Type TBD.
Details TBD.

The following table, explains the available settings for Options.

Setting Use
Cards Limit TBD.
Limit Per Board Member TBD.
Auto Feed View TBD.
Default for Ticket Activity Template Creation TBD.
Ticket Activity Status TBD.
Commitment Point TBD.
Delivery Point TBD.
Work in Progress TBD.

To update settings press Save&Exit command. To discard, Close.

Lane commands