---
title: Filters and card display
description: Narrow a board down to the tickets you want, and choose what each card shows.
section: Boards and tickets
order: 4
---

# Filters and card display

A busy board is easier to read once it is filtered, and once its cards show
only the things you actually look at. Both controls live in the board header.

Filtering changes nothing for anyone else. Card display is saved per person as
well — see [Whose settings these are](#whose-settings-these-are).

## Filter by title

Type into the **Filter tasks...** box in the board header, or press `/` from
anywhere on the board to jump into it.

- It matches the ticket **title only**, ignoring case. It does **not** search
  descriptions, comments, labels or assignees.
- It filters live as you type, across every column at once. Column counts stay
  as they are; the "N tasks shown" summary under the header follows the filter.
- The cross at the right of the box clears it.

While the box has text in it, **dragging cards is switched off** — the column
in front of you is not the whole column, so a drop would put the ticket
somewhere you did not intend. The header shows "Clear title filter to reorder".

If you need to search descriptions too, the API can:
`GET /boards/{board_uuid}/tasks?q=...` matches titles _and_ descriptions. See
[Tickets by API](/docs/agents-and-api/tickets-by-api).

## Show only your tickets

**Assigned to me** in the filter row toggles the board down to tickets you are
an assignee on. It combines with the title filter and the group tabs.

## Filter by group

If the board has groups, the filter row shows an **All** tab plus one tab per
group, each with a count. Click one to show only that group's tickets. The
choice is kept in the page URL, so the filtered view is shareable.

Two things to know about groups:

- **Create one from the filter row itself** — the **Add group** tab at the end
  of the row. You can reorder group tabs by dragging them, and remove one with
  the cross on the tab; removing a group does not delete its tickets — they
  stay on the board and fall back to **All**.
- **Nothing in the app puts a ticket into a group yet.** Groups arrive
  populated on boards that were imported, and are copied forward with their
  tickets when a sprint rolls over, but there is no drag-to-tab or picker in
  the ticket panel to move one in afterwards. A group you create from the
  filter row starts, and stays, empty until that exists.

There is no filter for priority, label, due date or status in the app; status
is what the columns already are.

## Choose what cards show

Click **Card display** in the board header. Under **Show on cards**:

| Preference  | Default | Shows                                                            |
| ----------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Priority    | On      | The priority flag along the top of the card                      |
| Assignees   | On      | Avatars of the people assigned, up to two                        |
| Due date    | On      | The date, highlighted when overdue                               |
| Cover image | Off     | The ticket's oldest image attachment, across the top of the card |

Some things are always on the card and cannot be turned off: the title, its
labels (up to three, then a `+n`), the success-criteria badge when the ticket
has any, and the `⋮` ticket actions button.

**Cover image** has no picker: the card uses the oldest image attachment on the
ticket. To change it, delete that attachment; the next-oldest image takes over.

## Hover shortcuts

Under **Hover shortcuts (up to 4)** in the same menu, tick up to four of the
board's columns. Those columns become buttons that appear on a card when you
hover it, each moving the ticket straight into that column — useful for a
two-click triage pass without opening anything.

With none ticked you still get a single shortcut to the board's completion
column, labelled **Mark as completed**. Ticking a fifth column is blocked until
you untick one.

A ticket moved by a hover shortcut lands at the bottom of its new column.

## Whose settings these are

Card display preferences — the four toggles and the hover shortcuts — are saved
**per person, per board**. Changing them affects only your view of that one
board, and you can have different settings on every board you work on.

Filters are not saved at all. The title filter and **Assigned to me** reset when
you leave the board; the group tab lives in the URL, so it survives a reload
and can be shared.