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Mission 7 - Kanban Boards

Estimated time for completing this mission: 15 mins

Learning Objective

Learn to use related BLOX to create and interact with Kanban Board

Background Information

Kanban board is a very useful visualization tool to present and manage our tasks.

BLOX used in this mission:

App Templates

  • Kanban

Data

Please download the dataset, which will be used: MyProjects.xlsx

Steps

Please refer to Navigation Guide to perform the steps below

App Designer:

Create Kanban board

  1. Import dataset from the Data section to Module5 folder
  2. Right-click on the imported data and select the settings option. In the Column Settings dialog, check the "Is index?" checkbox for the "Project" column
  3. Open the MyProjects database you just imported. This contains information about different projects to present
  4. Feel free to add new projects to this table
  5. In Module5, create a new app named Project Management
  6. Click the Add Element Template Panel on the top right corner and drag the Kanban template mentioned above onto the canvas
  7. Select the Kanban template and configure its settings: set "Data" to "MyProjects", "States" to "Stages", and "Names" to "Project"
  8. Click "Configure Boards" and confirm the stages by clicking "Ok" in the top left corner
  9. Run the app. The Kanban board will display an overview of your tasks and stages

startBlox

Example

Results and Summary

Final Functionality

Well done! Now let's move on to the next mission!