Task Board Basics

With the “My tasks” feature, you can plan and manage your team’s internal workflow. Create tasks for you and your team members, and track their progress using a task board in “Kanban” mode or by specific criteria using the “List” view.

Locating tasks on a board helps you estimate how much time you need to complete them, delegate your tasks rationally, and see the whole picture of the work progress of each team member.

For example, you can add tasks when working on a new project, scheduling calls to clients, holding events, and processing deals and contracts.

Creating a Board

You can visualize and organize your workflow and track your team’s task performance using a board. Create tasks and statuses and customize settings for each pipeline.

By default, you have one board where you can create tasks. You can also add an additional board and create up to 2 boards.

To add a board, click Add board in the left panel.

Enter a board name, and choose a color.

Creating a Task

You can create a task to add the following information: what action you need to perform, who will perform it, the deadline, and other details.

Go to your board, and click Add task.

Read more: How to Create a Task.

You can also create a quick task. Click Add a quick task, and enter a task name. You can edit and add all the missing information later.

Task Board Display Modes

You can choose how to display your tasks: as a kanban board, list, or calendar.

Kanban

Kanban is the default task display mode that presents them as a board with columns (task statuses) where you place your task cards. You can manage them by dragging them from one column to another.

Kanban boards help you visualize your work on your project — each task on the board is displayed in a column along with its specific status.

List

The list is a task display mode that arranges them in one list without dividing them into columns. With this mode, more tasks can be placed and viewed on the page.

You can also display your tasks by statuses, select a list of tasks, change statuses, and delete your tasks.

The columns display each task’s title, status, priority, assignee, watchers, and period.

You can hide or display certain deal fields in the "List" deal display mode. To do this, click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the list, and select the required fields.

Calendar

Calendar is a mode that allows you to present your tasks in a calendar. With its help, you can view all of your tasks tha have their due dates.

Read more: How to Work with the Calendar.

Task Statuses

Task status is the stage of your task progress.

By default, there are 3 task statuses:

New: This status means that you have assigned a new task. Your assignee has not yet started working on it, and it becomes pending.

In Progress: This status means that your assignee has started working on the task.

Adding the "In Progress" status to the tasks that no one is currently working on is not recommended. If you have any questions or difficulties when completing a task, need help from other team members, or if this stage requires a lot of work, we recommend adding intermediate task statuses.

Done: This status means that your assignee has completed the task, and the result meets the expected requirements.

You can also add statuses based on the specific stages of your task progress. For example, you can mark certain tasks as “On hold,” “Ready to Review,” “Ready to Send,” “Archive," and so on.

Read also: How to Change Task Status.

To add a new status, switch to the Kanban display mode, click +Add Status, enter a name, and select a color.

To add a new stage, click + Add status, enter a name, and select a color.

Task Filter

You can filter the list of your deals displayed on the screen. Use the filter to plan out the tasks by period, priority, and assignee’s workload and find tasks by deals or contacts faster.

Click Filter, and select your filter conditions:

• date created, start date, and task completion date;
• task name;
• task priority;
• task status;
• task participants (assignees and watchers);
• related contacts and deals;
• custom fields.

Customizing a Board

Select your board, and click Settings.

In the "General" tab, you can change the board name and choose an assignee for automatically created tasks.

You can also delete a board if you have more than one.

In the "Fields" and "Tags" tabs, you can edit your task attributes or create new ones.

Last Updated: 31.10.2022