Asana Boards - A simple, visual way to track your team’s work

@dshan It would seem so.

@cambel @dshan With one key difference: Trello *only* does boards. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alex...

@moskov Fair point, and was just saying as much to a friend. cc @cambel

@moskov glad to see you acknowledge this. I suppose I find it a bit disheartening that this is the most important update/feature for you at the moment. @dshan

@cambel @dshan actually, performance is the most important update, but this is the one that was ready to be released today. A lot of our customers want to organize visually, so this was still a very important feature for us.

@lauren_e_ulmer @mat_stevens @scottcheng I was wondering about converting a task type project to a board. It would be pretty great if you could flip between views and not have to choose between them. But what I did was setup a board and add the tasks to the new Board based project so you can get the best of both worlds. Even better your board can contain tasks from multiple projects this way if you wanted. It would be interesting if the My Tasks view could be shown using the Board format so all your tasks could be moved through a workflow from all projects.

@nathansudds The switching between views thing is something we've actually been working on for a while... so far we can switch between a list, kanban, calendar & spreadsheet. We're working on mindmaps & Gantt now too :) What other types of views do you think would be valuable?

@nathansudds @lauren_e_ulmer @mat_stevens @scottcheng I'm also excited about this... I actually wrote a little cron job to sync them up continuously. Hopefully we'll make it real one day :)

@moskov @nathansudds @lauren_e_ulmer @mat_stevens @scottcheng nothing to add just wanted to say I love how you're being open about the tech side eg. mention of cron + previous mention of using elasticsearch.

@siororke @nathansudds any estimated time for this?

@aryav We're building this soon. As a workaround in the meantime, you can create a new board project, then select all the tasks in the list project and add them to the board https://asana.com/guide/help/tas... . All changes made to these tasks will be reflected in both your board and list projects.

@jackie_bavaro @aryav Link doesn't work, and can't figure out how to do this...

@jackie_bavaro @aryav I also can't figure out why Board isn't an option when making a new project. Is this a paid-only feature?

@dshan @jackie_bavaro @aryav It's not available to all accounts yet. Oddly, not even all workspaces within an account have access — 2 out of 3 workspaces within my account can add a board, the other doesn't even show it.

@dshan @jackie_bavaro @aryav Here's the correct link on copying tasks — https://asana.com/guide/help/tas... Unfortunately, it looks like you can only copy ONE at a time, which is essentially worthless for converting a large project to a board.

@williamwright @moskov This is what I thought the update would be. Alas, I'll likely wait to use Boards until it's more tightly integrated with projects. Not really useful as a separately managed entity.

@billymauro @moskov Oh that would've saved me HOURS this week.... I just switched back from Trello to Asana after seeing the boards release.

@headgeario We're building this soon. As a workaround in the meantime, you can create a new board project, then select all the tasks in the list project and add them to the board https://asana.com/guide/help/tas... . All changes made to these tasks will be reflected in both your board and list projects.

that's exactly what I did do @jackie_bavaro. Now there's no going back to the List View. It's alright, but like @p01ds mentioned it'd be nice to switch between the 2 views/modes. You could use Sections in the list to define columns and then Shift+click to select more than one item in a column.

@koridhandy tell me more?

@shtooova I can't do that 😎