Using colors is a quick way to make a card stand out on the board. It helps users to easily identify priority, type of work, or owner, as well as group cards for further reporting based on color criteria. For example, if you receive customer issues as cards, you can make them red to highlight their priority.
1. How to Color Your Cards?
There are two ways to set up a card color (it applies both to cards and initiatives):
1.1 From the Card Details
Open a card and click the Color icon in the upper right corner (next to Priority). You can select one of the main available colors or open the advanced palette for a wider color selection. Once you are ready with your color, update the card to save the changes.
1.2. From the Card Context Menu
Open the card's Context menu and select the Color icon to open the palette. Pick the desired color and close the Context menu, your changes will be updated automatically.
2. The Color Setting for Cards and Initiatives
In Businessmap, you can choose to colorize cards partially or entirely. There is a separate setting for cards and initiatives. By default, cards are partially colorized.
You can access this setting from the Configure views icon located in the sidebar to the left of your board. This is where you can manage how your cards and initiatives are visualized in the closed view. The color setting is called “Color entire card surface.” If it is disabled, cards will be partially colorized. If enabled, the entire surface of the card or initiative will be colorized:
Note: This configuration is an individual preference (i.e. it is applied per user, per board), unless there is a pre-defined default view configured by the Workspace Manager. You can learn more about these default view settings here.
TIPS:
- Use card colors in combination with card templates or card types as a quick and easy way to create cards with predefined properties.
- Use the same color for the cards and the swimlanes in which they have been created.
- Use card colors as a priority indicator: warm colors for high/critical priority and cold colors for normal/low priority.
Learn more about how to use card colors for prioritizing tasks with Kanban.