--- title: Boards description: Create a board, rename and reorder it, set up its status columns, and delete it when it is finished with. section: Boards and tickets order: 1 --- # Boards A board is one kanban wall: a set of status columns with tickets in them. Every board belongs to a workspace, and a workspace can hold as many boards as its plan allows. ## Before you start - You need a workspace role that can write — **owner**, **admin** or **member**. A **viewer** can open boards and read everything on them, but every button described here will return "Your role in this workspace is read-only". See [Roles and permissions](/docs/workspaces-and-access/roles-and-permissions). - On the **free** plan a workspace may have **2 boards**. Trying to create a third is refused with a message naming the limit and the price to lift it. The **Pro** plan has no board limit. Boards you have deleted do not count. - Whoever creates a board is given access to it. Owners and admins see every board in the workspace; members only see boards they have been added to. See [Board access](/docs/workspaces-and-access/board-access). ## Create a board 1. In the left sidebar, under **Boards**, click **New board**. 2. Type a name (up to 200 characters). 3. Click **Create board**. Laver opens the new board straight away. Pressing `Escape` in the name field cancels without creating anything. If the workspace has no boards at all, the main panel shows **No boards yet** with a **Create a board** button that does the same thing. ## What a new board starts with Every new board is created with three status columns: | Column | Notes | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Backlog | First column, where a ticket lands if you do not pick one | | In progress | | | Done | Marked as the board's **completion column** | It starts with no tickets, and with you as its only member. The completion column matters in two places: it is the column the card hover shortcut moves a ticket to by default, and it is what a sprint rollover treats as "finished". See [Sprints](/docs/boards-and-tickets/sprints). ## Rename a board 1. Open the board. 2. Click the pencil (**Rename board**) next to the board name in the header. 3. Edit the name and press `Enter`, or click the tick. `Escape` or the cross cancels. Names can be up to 200 characters, and ordinary boards are allowed to share a name. The one exception is sprints: a sprint board is named from its series, and creating one is refused if a board of that name already exists. ## Reorder boards in the sidebar Board order is a property of the board, so the order you set is the order everyone in the workspace sees. - **With a mouse:** drag the grip handle at the left of a board row up or down and drop it. A line shows where it will land. - **With a keyboard:** focus the grip handle (its label is "Reorder _board name_") and press `Arrow Up` or `Arrow Down`. Each press moves the board one place and saves immediately. If someone else adds or removes a board while you are dragging, the save is refused with "The board list changed. Refresh and try again." ## Delete a board 1. Open the board. 2. Click the bin icon (**Delete board**) in the board header. On a narrow screen it is in the account menu instead. 3. Confirm the browser prompt. Deleting removes the board and its tickets from the workspace for everybody, and **there is no way to restore it from the app**. Laver takes you to the next board in the sidebar. There is no separate "archive" action for boards in the product: **Delete** is the only option, and it is what frees a slot on the free plan's board limit. If the board you delete is the live board of a sprint series, that series is switched off and stops rolling over. Earlier sprint boards are untouched. ## Configure status columns Columns are the vertical lanes on the board. Changing them affects everyone looking at the board. ### Add a column 1. Scroll to the right-hand end of the board to the **Add column** panel. 2. Click **Add column**, type a name (up to 100 characters), and submit. The new column is appended after the existing ones. `Escape` cancels. ### Rename a column 1. Hover the column header and click the pencil (**Rename column**). 2. Edit the name and press `Enter`, or click the tick. Renaming is safe: tickets stay where they are, and a renamed completion column stays the completion column. ### Reorder columns - **With a mouse:** drag the grip handle in the column header left or right. - **With a keyboard:** focus the grip handle and press `Arrow Left` or `Arrow Right`. As with boards, a partial or stale list is refused with "The column list changed. Refresh and try again." ### The completion column Exactly one column per board is marked as the completion column. Laver sets this when the board is created — it is the last of the three default columns, **Done** — and: - **It cannot be changed afterwards.** There is no control in the app and no API field for moving the completion mark to a different column. - **Columns cannot be deleted.** There is no delete action for a status column in the app or in the API. So if you want a different name on the completion column, rename **Done** rather than adding a new column beside it. Columns you no longer need can be moved to the far right, but they will stay on the board. ## Show two boards side by side With more than one board in the workspace, **Split view** in the board header opens a second board in a pane beside the current one, chosen from a dropdown. The two panes are independent: you can read and edit in both, but you cannot drag a card from one pane into the other. Close it with the cross on the pane bar or by pressing **Split view** again. ## If something is refused Board writes can fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the board — an unpaid invoice makes a workspace read-only, and a workspace with no subscription is closed to everyone until one is started. The message says which. See [Errors](/docs/troubleshooting/errors).