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.
• 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.

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:

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.

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.