New Version of my Simple Kanban Board Application

Great application. Popular in office. Quick feedback:

- my version has 12 columns so some displayed below the others – can it all scroll horizontally?
- is it easy to add a done column to each lane (we use ready / in progress / done)
- as dev has stated, limits and time to go would be useful
- some display problems in IE6 and Chrome 1.0.154 (fine in Firefox 3)

Thanks though for very useful piece of software.

Thx :-)

1.) No, it’s currently done with DIVs, the wrap around. I’ll use TABLES which scroll, next release
2.) I will drop the implicit READY queues and make all of the queues explicit – then you can add done, in progress etc as you like
3.)not sure?
4.) I do not, and will not support IE6 … but perhaps 1.) might solve the problem. I develop with Chrome 2, so not sure what problems there are in Chrome.

Thanks Stephan – on 3) I was just meaning the comment you’d already made that future version could

“add WIP limits, and add “From here” signs to display cycle time until live

Ah ok.

“From here” (current dev version):

http://www.codemonkeyism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/fromhere.png

great! Now we need a way to edit/share this within the team; copy/pasting the html isn’t really practical (and will only work with browsers such as firefox, which show you the dom and not the actual source?)

As a (possibly simpler for some environments) alternative to the couchdb storage idea, how about embedding this in a wiki/confluence macro ?

@Greg: Sharing is easy. I’ve put it on a web server. To change items: Use WinSCP to edit the file with the build in WinSCP editor. Works fine.

You do not need to edit the HTML, just the stories in the file.

Nice idea with the wiki/confluence macro, bit it might some time and I’m not sure I can do it.

Any date for v2 of the simple kanban? :)

Hi Stephan,

First of all, thank you for making this public. I’m looking forward to the explicit queues.

FYI, it does not render in Safari either (no data), but I for one am happy with it only being supported in Firefox (and eventually Chrome)

First off good work, this is very cool.

Second I think it would be great if you went with a TiddlyWiki type data saving design.

While it is not really difficult to update the data by editing the source it is a little clunky.

I am a big fan of TiddlyWiki and especially GTDTiddlyWiki and use this style of wiki for lots of my projects.

Thanks,
KMF

I was on a conference in Birmingham for a week, so development stalled, I’m at it again.

@Kurt: I have WebDAV working, so when you have a Apache you can “SAVE” to the server.

I’ve played with TiddlyWiki saving (because I like TW since a long time) but couldn’t get it working yet with Simple-Kanban.

@Gene: Doesn’t work in Safari and IE corretly, had no time to fix it yet. Developing on Chrome and FF currently.

Great tool!

+1 to the Tiddlywiki save button.

BTW,

I’m trying to integrate SimpleKanban with DokuWiki. If I have a success I’ll let you know.

Best regards,
JMB

Hi!

I’ve tried the integration with SimpleKanban and DokuWiki with some success and some failure.

On one hand I’ve developed a simple dokuwiki plugin that let us have a kanban board within a wiki page, having the data in the page and the rest included from an html file. It looks nice.

On the other hand, the whole design of this solutions fails because I didn’t consider that the way to save the data needs to edit the page, but if I click on “Edit” then I lose all the changes made by drag’n'drop with SimpleKanban.

Any ideas?

Hello, I did it!

I have a working integration between Simple Kanban and DokuWiki. I’ve written a dokuwiki plugin (with a small change in the simplekanban jquery code).

Do I have your permission to publish it or do you prefer that I send it to you?

Best regards,
JMB

@Jose: Just publish it, link back to the site or me would be nice somewhere in the plugin/doku.

Great tool, keep on the good works!
Have a nice day
Jef

Great tool, thanks for making it available! I agree with the others that it would be greatly enhanced by some kind of wiki integration.

I would like to be able to add links to the cards (like, see this page for more details about this task). But the drag and drop library doesn’t allow me to click on the embedded anchor. Would it be possible to control the drag-and-drop with a modifier – like, ignore dnd for Ctrl-click?

One more suggestion: can the queue columns be turned off? Seems overkill to have a queue for each column, and it also uses too much real state.

Traditional kanban just uses a backlog column to start the process, then every phase or column is automatically the queue for the next one.

This is such a wonderful tool. I was wondering if you have tries to add a tag to stories (like owner) and filter view based on the tag.

I prefer http://kanbantol.com – even more lightweight than simple kanban.