Is it posible to assign a colour to all the cards under a certain column of a Kanban Board?

[Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte]

I want to assign a colour to all the cards (issue type) of each column in a Kanban Board. Is it possible? Which JQL should I use?

Thank you in advance :)

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Hi @Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte , if you are using a Company managed project you can accomplish this.

1. click on the… In the top right when viewing your board
2. select board settings, and in the following screen, select card colors
3. in the drop-down choose queries
4. construct the various queries based on statuses that are meant to your columns

[Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte]

Thank you! That was my idea, I didn't know which query to use though. I'll keep working on it!

[Jack Brickey]

it should be straight forward. for example....

assume I have three columns: To Do, In Progress and Done with five status: To Do, In Progress, Testing, Verified, and Done which are mapped like this:

• To Do: To Do
• In Progress: In Progress, Testing
• Done: Verified, Done

Given the above assumptions I would have three queries:

• status = "To Do"
• status in ("In Progress", Testing)
• status in (Verified, Done)

you select the colors you desire for the three queries. 

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

Hi @Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte 

Welcome to the community.

No this isn't possible you can colour by assignee, issue type, priority or query

With queries you could make an effort though.

Make sure your board column has just a single status and base your card colours on queries 

e.g.

status = in progress

[Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte]

Thank you Marc! A really nice tipe to assign a single status to each column and write a JQL base on this. :)

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte 

I am curious: what problem are you trying to solve by doing this?  That is, "why" do this?

Card colors are shown on a board or the backlog.  On the board, the cards are already in columns by their mapped status values, and in the backlog the status values are already on the cards.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte]

Hi @Bill Sheboy ,

Thank you for your comment! It's not a problem, but it's a nice to have for me. It's a simple visual thing, as I have the cards of 8 teams in a same Kanban board. Each Kanban Board, is aimed to show the evolution of a project. I know for example that I could have 8 Kanban Boards, but I wanted to have all the information in one Kanban. I'm just checking different options to choose the one I like the most :).

Kind regards,

Adriana

[Jack Brickey]

I would consider 8 different swimlanes in your master-Kanban board. That would allow you to visualize each team's progress independently on a single board.

[Adriana Domínguez Eguiarte]

Thank you for your answer, I already have them created. The colours as you see is only a nice to have visually.