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title: "Use Case: Your Board Your Way (Custom Board)"
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> | **Logo** | ![image](media://82a52f01-028e-4e20-8ddb-ed287734a62c) |
> | --- | --- |
> | **Use Case** | Custom Board |
> | **Category** | Other |
> | **Company/Team**<br>**Managed Projects** | Both |
> | **Summary** | Pick up any standard of custom fields for your custom board |

> 📝 The paragraphs below outlines the specific use case. For more details about advanced features and complementary functionality we suggest to review [https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875692462](https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875692462) section of this documentation.

## Detailed overview

### How to create?

(1) Go to “My Boards“ section. If you do not have any active boards this going to be your default page.

![image](media://4354b8d2-1ffb-456e-aec2-58295978db0f)

Otherwise (if you already have one or few boards created) click on menu icon in top left corner to select “Manage Boards“

![image](media://76e81b85-9293-4a41-a358-58d6d4c9f47d)

(2) Click on “Create board“, if any of the suggested templates doesn’t suit you … choose “Custom Board“ and Next.

![image](media://a9a71f8c-0984-4ec4-a08f-459592612662)

(3) On the initial configuration screen please specify

- **Name** of the board
- **Projects** to pool Jira issues from
- **Column field **to map to columns on the board
- **Swimlane field (optional) **to map to swimlanes on the board
- **JQL** to filter out the issues

![image](media://d66fd246-4838-4c92-988e-9cce9e2aa9e3)

(4) Click “Create“

### How to use?

(1) You will receive a board with all Jira issues pulled from selected projects that matched JQL filter specified (if any) .. in first (Others) column:

![image](media://f4e359dd-cc3e-4c9c-a5a8-d6259f7168a6)

(2) Click “+” to add new columns / values to you would like to use

![image](media://f06d8148-f18a-46dc-82c2-4a4f729177bc)

(3) Drag and drop issues between column to change the field value. All the changes are applied automatically and you do not need to commit it after. 

(4) To **Edit** column value, **Change** title, **Add** or **Remove **one move mouse to selected column and you will receive a tooltip with all the available options:

![image](media://cef0bfeb-c4f8-4f48-9206-30698bd32b78)

e.g. let’s click on **Edit**

![image](media://19d87138-c991-44a2-92bb-5912ad81b0eb)

(5) Same goes for Swimlanes:- put mouse on one of them to **Edit** column value, **Change** title, **Add** or **Remove**.

![image](media://37a84bcf-07b9-46f6-ba6d-e257c833ca25)

e.g. let’s click on **Edit**

![image](media://8ed7cc5a-51f4-4585-b9f2-043bda75283e)

### How to configure?

(1) Click settings icon in top right corner ..

![image](media://e6d1638e-5544-4c1b-9bf8-da555a6c5ae2)

.. to open “Board configuration“ screen.

(2) on “General” Tab you can amend

- **Name** of the board
- **Projects** to pool Jira issues from
- **JQL** to filter out the issues

![image](media://fc4fcc6c-3ac5-4c3d-a80d-bc95e523d6a3)

(3) on “Columns and Swimlanes“ tab you can change configuration of fields used respectively for Columns and Swimlanes. Swimlanes are optional. To remove them choose “-- none -- “ in popup.

![image](media://9d53298c-4181-43f9-ac85-2d472eca34eb)

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