Customising Cards

Configuring card colours

You can base your card colours on issue types, priorities, assignees or JQL queries. Once you have chosen a method, you can change or delete the colours for each type of card. This can be configured per board (not globally).

To configure card colours:

1. Navigate to the desired board, then click Board > Configure.

2. Click Card Colors and change the Colors based on dropdown as desired. If you change to a different method of card colouring, your settings for the old method will be retained so you can switch back to them later if you wish. 

   Read more about the card colouring methods

   Base your card colours on...	Explanation
   Issue Types	One colour per issue type. A default colour will be allocated to every issue type which matches issues on the board.  Note, the issue type must already exist in your project to configure the colour for it. Default issue types and colours: Improvement, Task , New Feature , Bug .
   Priorities	One colour per priority. The default colours are the same as used for priorities in JIRA.
   Assignees	One colour per assignee. A default colour will be allocated to every user who is or has been an assignee of issues on this board.
   Queries	One colour per JQL query. You can specify whatever queries you wish. Issues which do not match any of your JQL queries will be shown in grey. For information about JQL syntax, see the JIRA JQL documentation.  Example queries: Show all issues which belong to a particular component (e.g. 'User Interface'): project = "Angry Nerds" AND component = "User Interface" Show all issues which are due in the next 24 hours: due <= "24h" Show all issues created by a particular user, e.g.: reporter = "Jane" and reporter = "Bob"

3. Once you have picked a method to base your colors on, customise the colours as follows:

   • Pick a different colour for a card — Click the  Color  square, e.g.
   • Delete a card colour — Click  Delete . This effectively resets the card to the default colour, if you still have issues matching that card type (refresh the screen — the deleted card colour will show, reset to the default colour).
   • Move a card colour (Query-based only) —  Hover over the vertical 'grid'   icon, then drag and drop the colour up or down to its new position.

     Note: For Query-based colours, the order is important as each issue will be coloured according to the first query that it matches (e.g. if your first row first row has query "issuetype = bug" and is coloured red, and your second row has query "assignee = dave" and is coloured green, then bugs assigned to dave will appear red).

Screenshot: Configuring card colours for a board

Adding fields to cards

You can configure cards on a board to display up to three additional fields. The fields can be different for the Backlog versus the Active sprints, if you are using a Scrum board.

To add fields to :

1. Navigate to the desired board, then click Board > Configure.

2. Click Card layout, then add or delete fields as desired.