When you add a project to a portfolio board (new enterprise feature) you have to decide which column will be the timeline and which will be the progress. That’s a neat feature, but the problem is that once you set it you can’t change it.
On the column itself it says “This column is predefined and cannot be changed”, which is fine I guess. The problem is that even if you remove the project completely from the portfolio, the system still remembers what column you assigned previously. Even if you delete the portfolio, create a new one, and add the project again to the new portfolio, it won’t ask you which columns you want to assign for timeline and progress. It’ll just automatically assign whichever columns you chose earlier in the now deleted portfolio.
I even went as far as going through the Monday trash and permanently delete the deleted portfolios. Didn’t work.
I found this different problem (I tested it and that bug is still not fixed) which I believe is related and share the same root cause as my problem: The software thinks that portfolios and their items still exist even after they have been deleted.
Update: Looks like when you add a board as a project, it permanently changes the type of object from board to project (see screenshot red = board yellow = project). I have not found any way to revert a project back into a normal board. Even duplicating the “project-type” board won’t work as it’ll duplicate it as a project.
So everyone be careful with this feature. I strongly recommend avoiding portfolios until a fix is released.
after hours/days trying to find alternative ways to solve this problem, i accidentally found the solution. i had added about 2 dozen boards to a portfolio board. during this exercise, i clicked too fast and missed bad mapping for half the boards. after, “project progress” was sometimes linked to the status column in the project and sometimes to completely different fields like “team” which in my boards is a modified status type field.
the solution: (1) delete the project from the portfolio board (2) open the project board itself (3) click the 3 dots in top right of board, select “more actions”, select “update project structure” (4) correct the mapping, (5) in portfolio board, readd the project board.
from my experience, this only works in this order as “update project structure” doesn’t show until it’s removed from a portfolio
