Column Group (Plug-in for Kanboard)

Version 0.2.0

1. Introduction

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This is a plug-in for Kanboard, the Kanban Project Management Software. It allows for managing column groups.

2. License & Copyright

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This plug-in is available "as is" under MIT License. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright is held by Gustavo A. Hoffmann.

This plug-in is based on source-code from Kanboard itself (copyright by Frédéric Guillot).

3. Features

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This plug-in extends Kanboard's functionality with the following features:

• Allows for adding and managing global and project-specific column groups.
• Allows for assigning columns from each project to column groups.
  • Multiple columns from the same project can be assigned to a single column group.
  • Multiple columns from various projects can share column groups.
  • Projects can use both global and local column groups.
• Displays column groups above the corresponding columns on the project board.
  • Adjacent columns belonging to the same column group can be easily identified on the board.
• Allows for searching for column groups using this filter: column_groups.
  • This also allows for searching for tasks from various projects sharing the same column group.

4. Known Limitations

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This is an alpha release of the plug-in. These are some of the known limitations:

• It is only possible to reference column groups by the corresponding column group code.

• GUI for column groups (on the project board) is very simple.

5. Testing

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This plug-in was manually tested with the following configuration:

• Kanboard 1.0.40
• PHP 7.0.15
• Postgres 9.5.5
• Sqlite 3.14.1
• Mysql 5.7.17

6. Requirements

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• Kanboard 1.0.40
• PHP >= 5.3.3

7. Installation

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You have the choice between 3 methods:

1. Install the plug-in from the Kanboard plug-in manager in one click
2. Download the zip file and decompress everything under the directory plugins/ColumnGroup
3. Clone this repository into the folder plugins/ColumnGroup

Note: The plug-in folder is case-sensitive.