Boards layout
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- Add tasks
- Drag and drop
- Manage columns
- Filtering tasks
- Custom fields
- Searching for board columns using Advanced Search
Boards let you organize your work like sticky notes that you can move across columns. They give you a clean, visual overview, with all the same power of a project in List View. Add items to your board, then drag and drop to move work around or track it through multiple stages.
Create a board project
Create a new project by clicking the + button from your project list in the sidebar, or the orange + button in your top bar. Select Board as your project layout.
It’s not yet possible to change your project layout once the project has been created. You can multi-home existing tasks to a new project with boards layout.
Create columns
Click Add Columns to get started in a new project. Use columns as categories to group related work or as stages like “Ready”, “In Progress”, and “Done” to track a specific workflow.
Add ideas, tasks, goals, and more
Add tasks to your columns using the + button underneath the column name. You can click to expand tasks within a column for more details.
Drag and drop
You can drag and drop tasks and columns to reorganize your work or move it through stages. Project members can rearrange tasks as needed, and followers will get updates when tasks move columns so all members stay on the same page.
You can drag multiple cards at once to another column by using the Ctrl/Cmd + Click command.
Manage columns
Move, rename, delete, and add columns as your work progresses.
Click Add column to the right of existing columns to add to your project.
Rename and delete columns
To edit the column name or remove it:
- Click the dropdown arrow beside the column title
- Rename the column
- Delete the column
Columns need to be empty in order to delete them. Move tasks to other columns or delete them in order to clear a column.
Filtering tasks
Choose which tasks appear on your board layout.
To filter your tasks:
- Click the View link
- Choose to view incomplete tasks, completed tasks or tasks completed within a certain time frame
Tasks will need to be opened on boards in order to mark them as complete.
Custom fields
Custom fields are the first step towards tracking all types of work in Asana. You can provide even more information on each task and track it in a way that suits your team’s needs.
Manage custom fields
To access and manage a board project’s custom fields:
- Click the project actions arrow in the header
- From the dropdown menu, select Manage Custom Fields
View custom fields on a board project
To view a task’s custom fields, click any card on your board project to reveal its task details.
More information on how to use custom fields can be found in this article.
Searching for board columns
You can search for tasks in specific columns of board projects using the Advanced Search tool.
Once you’ve opened Advanced Search and selected a project(s):
- Click on the arrow icon next to the board project and select a column
- Click Search
Learn more
Check out our How to Asana video for more pointers about using boards.
