The Kanban board: columns, drag-and-drop, and views
2 min read · Updated Jul 21, 2026
Board is Current's Kanban view of a project's tasks — one column per status, cards you drag between them as work moves along.
The default columns
Every project starts with four columns that map directly to task status:
| Column | Task status |
|---|---|
| Backlog | backlog |
| In progress | in_progress |
| Review / QA | review |
| Done | done |
Columns are customizable per project: you can add a new column, delete one, and set a WIP limit on any column to cap how many tasks can sit in it at once.
Dragging cards
- 1Click and hold a cardDrag it into another column to change the task's status.
- 2Drop itThe task's status updates immediately.
- 3Or use the keyboardThe board is fully keyboard-accessible — tab to a card and use arrow keys to move it between columns without a mouse.
Each card shows its dependency load at a glance — how many tasks it's waiting on and how many it blocks — so you can see why a card in Backlog might not be ready to start yet. See "Task dependencies: types, lag, and the dependency map" for the full picture.
Note
Deleting a card that has billed time
If you try to delete a task that already has time logged against it, Current blocks the delete and offers Archive instead. Those time entries are real billing records, so deleting the task under them would quietly erase billing history. Archive drops the task from every board, list, timeline, calendar, and My Day while keeping its time entries intact — the safe way to get it out of view. A task with no logged time deletes normally.
Note
A big workspace nudges you to pin a project
If you open a board that isn't pinned to a project on a very large workspace, Current nudges you to pick a project first. An unscoped board tries to load every task in the whole workspace, which is slow and rarely what you want — pin a project and the board snaps to just that work. And when a huge view has to stop short of showing every single task, the Board (like List and Timeline) shows a calm heads-up that not everything is displayed and how to narrow it, rather than silently cutting off. Normal-sized projects never see either message.
Switching views
Every project screen shares the same view switcher, so you can flip between ways of seeing the same work without hunting the sidebar:
- ＋Overview — the project's summary page
- ＋Timeline — the Gantt-style schedule (see "The Timeline view: drag to reschedule, and back-scheduling")
- ＋Board — this Kanban view
- ＋List — a flat, sortable task list
- ＋Calendar — tasks and milestones by date
- ＋Dependencies — the dependency map (see "Task dependencies: types, lag, and the dependency map")
- ＋What-if — scenario planning
Note
Partner viewers see a smaller set
A partner logged into the portal sees Board, List, Calendar, and Dependencies for their own projects only — Timeline and What-if are internal-only views.
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