Kanban visibility

Jan Kjetil Wik

Earlier I used Kanbanflow as my own personal kanban board for work, but as part of an effort to reduce the number of applications used (web and otherwise) I have started to use Smartsheet instead. It covers most of my needs, but I have a few simple wishes:

• Are there any conditional formatting options for the kanban cards - as there are for the grid lines? I would love to be able to set the background or header colour of the card - for instance based on priority. I have the (small) icons - but would have wished for something a bit more visible.
• Along the same line: Is it possible to override the background colour of kanban lanes?
• It is a bit cumbersome to set card priority by clicking through the Edit-menu. Are there any new functionality in the pipeline that would make this - pretty important - task faster? Having the priorities directly available in the context menu would help...

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Jan,

Currently, there isn't a way to change the background color of cards in Smartsheet. When you have a moment, please submit a Product Enhancement Request and let our Product team know that you'd like to see this feature added.

With that being said, you can change the color of the bars on the left side of cards, called task bars, either manually or conditionally with Conditional Formatting rules. Details on both are in the following help articles:

Conditional Formatting: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/516359-conditional-formatting

Formatting Options: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/518246-formatting-options

On your question of setting priority. Currently, you can create formulas to automatically set priority based on other conditions in your sheet, specifically nested IF statements: https://help.smartsheet.com/function/if