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Table Views

A view decides how a Table looks: as a grid or a Kanban board, which rows show, in what order, grouped how. Views never change the data — hiding a column or filtering out a row only changes what you see.

Each placement keeps its own view. The same Table can be a Kanban board on your "Sprint" Canvas and a sorted grid on your "Archive" Canvas. If a Table is open in the Right Panel but isn't on any Canvas, the toolbar says "View settings are temporary until this table is added to a canvas."

Table or Kanban

Use the view switch (tooltip Switch view) in the Table's header on the Canvas, or in the Right Panel's toolbar:

  • Table — rows and columns.
  • Kanban — one lane per value of a column, each row a card you can drag between lanes. + New at the bottom of a lane adds a row with that value.

Kanban lanes come from the first Status column, or else the first Select or Multi-select column. Change it with Group.

Example: a task Table with a Status column of Not started / In progress / Done becomes a three-lane board; drag a task from In progress to Done and its Status changes.

Where the view settings are

  • On the Canvas: click the gear in the Table's header (tooltip View settings). The menu lists Property visibility, Column width, Filter, Sort, Group, Sub-group, Kanban-card title and Schedule. While a filter, sort or grouping is on, a chip for it stays in the header; click the chip to change it.
  • In the Right Panel: the same settings are buttons on the toolbar.
  • From a column: the column menu has Filter, Sort and Group for that column.

Filter

Show only the rows that match.

  1. Open Filter and click Add filter.
  2. Pick a column, an operator, and a value, then Add.

Operators depend on the column type: is, is not, contains, does not contain, >, <, ≥, ≤, is empty, is not empty. Checkbox columns use Checked / Unchecked. Add more filters the same way. Clear filters removes them all.

Sort

Open Sort and pick a column, Ascending or Descending. Remove sort goes back to your own order. While a Table is sorted, you can't drag rows to reorder them.

Group

Open Group and choose Group by a column. Rows with the same value are gathered under a heading; rows with no value go into "No column name".

  • Sort under Group order: Manual, Ascending or Descending.
  • In the Groups list, pin a group to the top (Pin group), hide it (Hide group), or use Show all / Hide all.
  • The grouping column can't be hidden while you group by it.

In Kanban, the grouping column is what makes the lanes. Sub-group splits each lane into horizontal swimlanes by a second column.

Kanban-card title

In Kanban, choose which column is shown as each card's title.

Property visibility and column width

  • Property visibility — show or hide columns. (You can also hide a column from its menu.)
  • Column width (Table view): Default, Compact, or Fit to content. Drag a column's edge to size one column by hand.
  • Wrap content in a column's menu lets long text wrap in that view.