Subitems should be accessible on the cards in the Kanban view.
We use Monday for managing our sales deal flow, where deals are items and tasks related to those deals (meetings, follow-ups, calls, etc.) are subitems.
Many of our salespeople prefer the Kanban view to the table view, and because they can’t access subitems from this view, using subitems becomes disruptive to the workflow.
We need to have the subitems accessible from the Kanban cards, at least at the level of task names and deadlines.
UPVOTE
I work in a real estate office and we use subitems to monitor and collect legal and marketing documents. We can’t market the property until the agent provides some information, so viewing this in a kanban would help track who is responsible of the project.
We’re super happy to let you know that you can now see your subitems in the kanban view!!!
It works in existing and new kanban views.
Some helpful Q&As:
How do I see it in the kanban?
All you need to do is to add the subitem column under the board view settings, and you will see it in the kanban card right away.
How do I choose which column to see in the subitem kanban card?
You can choose which column to see in each subitem card under the: “Subitems Card Columns”.
Which columns does the subitem kanban card support?
all of them.
What if I want to see more than one column in the subitem kanban card?
Due to our (current) kanban real estate limitation, we chose to display only one column next to the subitem name in one line.
We believe that you will want to see more than it, and we are working on redesigning the whole kanban and focusing on reducing the size of the kanban card block into a compact card (it’s also super requested feedback). Once we do so, we will feel much more comfortable displaying multiple columns of each subitem.
Can I open the item card of the subitem?
Sure, it works the same as the parent item, you just need to click on it.
It’s nice, but at least in my case, what I would like is to be able to use subitem cards in the Kanban view, not just be able to se subitems in the items card.
My ideal function for subitems in Kanban board would be to be able to filter in subitems displaying project, subitem headline, responsible and status. You should be able to sort 2 weeks ahead from today and select subitems from status, department, people etc.
Will this be available and if so when?
UPVOTE : I would like to have a kanban board by subitems rather than by group so I can see what tasks are in each stage on a sublevel regardless of which group they belong to.
Showing the sub-items on the card is nice, I guess, but really not the key requirement.
Cards have statuses and I can create a kanban board where each column is one of those statuses.
Sub-items can have their own statuses
I would like a kanban board where each column is the statuses of the sub-items.
My sub-items are the lowest level tasks and I’d like to see their (Not Started, WIP, Done, Blocked) statuses in a separate kanban board.
It seems unusual to me that sub-items can have their own separate status list - but you can’t create a kanban board using those statuses.
It’s like giving me a Ferrari but no keys.
I can’t use sub-items without a board to see their statuses!
Please allow for subitem based cards with column based swim lanes.
I’ve been building agile teams for over 15 years and was asked to upgrade a new org at a company whose leadership loves Monday.com. I was shocked to find out that Monday.com “Kanban Board” and “Cards” boards do not allow my groups to actually apply the Kanban / Scrum sticky note methodology without first changing all subitems into items. I have seen this post that asked for this feature but (I believe) Monday.com misconstrued it to mean “I want to see subitems” as opposed to “cards need to be discreet tasks that could be completed in as few as one day chunks”. I’m glad that there now is a “Kanban Board”, but it is not a “Kanban Board” if it is limited to top level items. It is also of very limited utility if you cannot see the status of the subitems even by expanding the subitems in a card.
This is a fundamental of Kanban / Scrum (and hybrids). Using the current view, a project that takes many weeks (build integrated AI/MLOps CI/CD pipeline) would render the Kanban or Cards Board for standups useless and no one would be moving anything from “Doing” to “Done” for weeks or possibly months. Please fix as this is going to force us to use Jira or Trello or something else outside of Monday.com and attempt to stand up integration (which invariably require updating some things manually across the two systems). Cards should be able to exist at the most granular subitem/task tracked.
Note, if you can create this using the “Cards” view or similar, I cannot seem to find out how.
Please allow for subitem based cards with column based swim lanes.
I’ve been building agile teams for over 15 years and was asked to upgrade a new org at a company whose leadership loves Monday.com. I was shocked to find out that Monday.com “Kanban Board” and “Cards” boards do not allow my groups to actually apply the Kanban / Scrum sticky note methodology without first changing all subitems into items. I have seen this post that asked for this feature but (I believe) Monday.com misconstrued it to mean “I want to see subitems” as opposed to “cards need to be discreet tasks that could be completed in as few as one day chunks”. I’m glad that there now is a “Kanban Board”, but it is not a “Kanban Board” if it is limited to top level items. It is also of very limited utility if you cannot see the status of the subitems even by expanding the subitems in a card.
This is a fundamental of Kanban / Scrum (and hybrids). Using the current view, a project that takes many weeks (build integrated AI/MLOps CI/CD pipeline) would render the Kanban or Cards Board for standups useless and no one would be moving anything from “Doing” to “Done” for weeks or possibly months. Please fix as this is going to force us to use Jira or Trello or something else outside of Monday.com and attempt to stand up integration (which invariably require updating some things manually across the two systems). Cards should be able to exist at the most granular subitem/task tracked.
Note, if you can create this using the “Cards” view or similar, I cannot seem to find out how.
Please allow for subitem based cards with column based swim lanes.
I’ve been building agile teams for over 15 years and was asked to upgrade a new org at a company whose leadership loves Monday.com. I was shocked to find out that Monday.com “Kanban Board” and “Cards” boards do not allow my groups to actually apply the Kanban / Scrum sticky note methodology without first changing all subitems into items. I have seen this post that asked for this feature but (I believe) Monday.com misconstrued it to mean “I want to see subitems” as opposed to “cards need to be discreet tasks that could be completed in as few as one day chunks”. I’m glad that there now is a “Kanban Board”, but it is not a “Kanban Board” if it is limited to top level items. It is also of very limited utility if you cannot see the status of the subitems even by expanding the subitems in a card.
This is a fundamental of Kanban / Scrum (and hybrids). Using the current view, a project that takes many weeks (build integrated AI/MLOps CI/CD pipeline) would render the Kanban or Cards Board for standups useless and no one would be moving anything from “Doing” to “Done” for weeks or possibly months. Please fix as this is going to force us to use Jira or Trello or something else outside of Monday.com and attempt to stand up integration (which invariably require updating some things manually across the two systems). Cards should be able to exist at the most granular subitem/task tracked.
Note, if you can create this using the “Cards” view or similar, I cannot seem to find out how.
Hello, I would also like to know how / if / when this is possible. We are being asked to set up integrations between trello and monday because monday cards / kanban does not give agile users even close to the functionality that they need.
