How to create a board with tasks derived from other projects/boards?

[Jon Jira]

My team is responsible for managing several projects within our organization. We want a way to create a kanban board that showcases all of the items from the various projects in a single place. 

Here's the catch: We would like to be able to comment/edit these items without them being edited in their source boards. Basically the items need to remain untouched on their source boards, but we would like to manipulate them for our own management/overview purposes. 

Any idea if this is possible? Is there a way to create that layer of separation between the items on their original boards and then the compilation of all the boards in a single location?

[Jillian Amyot _Unito_]

Hi @Jon Jira 

If you go through Unito, you can sync your boards together. They will automatically sync from the various projects into your board, and if you sync unilaterally then you can comment/edit in your board without it being updated on theirs. The projects that they're working on just have to be included in Unito's integrations. Here is their website you can check out to see if it fits your needs: https://unito.io/

Hope this helps!

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

I'm backing this solution approach.

If you synchronize your issues one way with an issue sync app, you get all updates from your various projects into one project - and then you're able to view the issues in there and modify them according to your needs.

Unito is one way of solving this - you can also find other issue sync apps in the marketplace which should basically all be meeting your needs - depending on your exact requirements.

Note: I'm working for the team behind Backbone Issue Sync.

[Jack Brickey]

Hi Jon, are you asking if you can edit an issue in one view (board) but not have that change actually reflected for the same issue in another board? If so there is no way to do that. Issues don’t belong to boards. They belong to projects. Boards are simply a means of viewing issues. A Chang to an issue in one board will also reflect in any other view of that issue.

[Aylin Kohls]

Hi Jon!

There's no way to do what you need using boards, but maybe you can use permissions to accomplish that. If you and your teammates (the other ones that could comment and edit) have _edit_ permissions according the permission scheme, and people that access the source boards have only _view_ permissions.

To do this, you´ll need to create a new permission scheme and asign it to projects to which you want to be able to edit.

If this make sense to you, let me know and we'll go further.

Regards! Aylin.