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In Work mode, a Rapid Board displays vertical columns. By default, each Rapid Board contains three columns, called 'To Do', 'In Progress' and 'Done'. You can add, delete, rename or move these columns if you wish. You can also choose which JIRA workflow status(es) each column is mapped to, and whether any constraints apply to each column.

Editing Columns

To edit columns of a Rapid Board:

  1. Click Agile > Manage Rapid Boards in the top navigation bar, then click the Configure link corresponding to the Rapid Board of interest.

  2. Click the Columns tab.

  3. Edit the columns as described in the following table and Screenshot 1 (below).

    To do the following:

    Do this:

    Add a new column

    Click the 'Add Column' button at the top-left of the page. A new column named 'New Column' is added in the 2nd-last column position.

    Change the name of a column

    Click in the name area of the column, modify the existing name and press the 'Enter' key.

    Delete a column

    Click the 'cog' icon at the top-right of the column to be deleted and select 'Delete column' from the resulting popup menu.
    (info) Any JIRA workflow statuses that had been mapped to the deleted column are moved back to the 'Unmapped' column.

    Move a column

    Hover over the horizontal 'grid' icon, then drag the column left or right to its new position. Wait until other columns have shifted position before dropping the selected column to its new position.

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Related pages:

 

Screenshot 1: the 'Rapid Board Configuration' screen — 'Columns' tab.

Mapping Columns to JIRA Statuses

By default, a Rapid Board's columns are mapped to the default JIRA statuses as shown in the following table. You can change this if you wish. For example, if you are using additional, customised JIRA statuses, you will probably want to map them to appropriate columns in your Rapid Board.

Default columnDefault mapped JIRA statuses
To DoOpen, Reopened
In ProgressIn Progress
DoneResolved, Closed

 

To edit the mapping of JIRA workflow statuses to columns of a Rapid Board:

  1. Click Agile > Manage Rapid Boards in the top navigation bar, then click the Configure link corresponding to the Rapid Board of interest.

  2. Click the Columns tab.

  3. Change the mapping statuses as described in the following table and Screenshot 1 (above).

    To do the following:

    Do this:

    Map a status to a column

    Drag a status from the 'Unmapped' column to the appropriate column on the right.

    Unmap a status from a column

    Drag a status from its current column on the right to the 'Unmapped' column on the left.

    Change the column mappings of a status

    Drag a status from its original column to its relevant new column.

    (info) All statuses configured in the JIRA server are available from the Rapid Board Configuration page. However, some statuses (in particular, custom statuses) may not be available for issues on your Rapid Board if the JIRA workflow(s) used by these issues do not utilise those statuses.

 

(tick) See the Tutorial - Adding a Column to a Rapid Board for an example of creating a new column and mapping it to a new JIRA status.

 

Setting Column Constraints

Constraints specify how many issues a column can contain.

To set 'Maximum' and 'Minimumum' constraints for a column of a Rapid Board:

  1. Click Agile > Manage Rapid Boards in the top navigation bar, then click the Configure link corresponding to the Rapid Board of interest.

  2. Click the Columns tab.

  3. Edit the constraints as described in the following table and Screenshot 1 (above).

    To do the following:

    Do this:

    Enable column contraints
    		In the 'Column Constraint' drop-down, select 'Issue Count'.
    Set a column's 'Min' constraint

    Click the yellow box at the top of the column, type the new value and press the 'Enter' key.

    Set a column's 'Max' constraint

    Click the red box at the top of the column, type the new value and press the 'Enter' key.

    Remove a column's 'Min' constraint

    Click the yellow box at the top of the column, delete the current value and press the 'Enter' key.

    Remove a column's 'Max' constraint

    Click the red box at the top of the column, delete the current value and press the 'Enter' key.

    Remove constraints for all columns
    		In the 'Column Constraint' drop-down, select 'None'.

 

 



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