In OpenProject you can create unlimited boards with as many lists and cards on it as you need, name them and share work collaboratively with your team. Boards can be for workflow management, prioritization, visualization. New cards can be created, and existing ones can be added from projects or subprojects.

Lists and cards in your board enable you to keep track of your project in an easy and efficient way. Lists may represent a workflow, or a version, an assignee, subprojects, parent-child work packages or anything you would like them to be. Each list has cards on it that represent a work package in your project. Prioritize cards within a list or add them to another list with drag and drop. Action boards will automatically change the attribute, such as the status or version of the card.

See what is important in your projects and what needs to be done next. You easily get an overview of the status and next steps in a project.

Add more details, such as description, attachments, comments, due dates, assignees, and much more to the cards.

Select your board from a selection of six different board types. The basic board allows you to create flexible boards for any kind of activity you would like to track, e.g. management of ideas. If you move work packages between the lists, there will be no changes to the work package itself. In all other 5 board types, moving work packages (cards) between two lists will update them automatically, based on the list to which they’re moved.

Highlight the status and priority using custom colors.

The finish date is highlighted automatically: Overdue dates are shown in red, tasks which are due on the current day are shown in orange.

Aside from full-text search, you can search work packages based on their file name.

Rapidly find documents by their name.

To enable multi-select, simply choose the multi-select button when creating a custom field.

Let's take a look at an example:
If a company develops products for multiple customers and creates a work package custom field Customers to track which customers are interested in a product, it makes sense to be able to choose multiple values for the Customers custom field.

The same applies for filtering work packages: You can filter for individual values as well as for multiple values.

In the example, this allows you to display all requirements that two of your customers have.

As a user of the Enterprise Edition, you can specify attribute help texts in the administration.

You can select any project or work package attribute (including custom fields) and specify the description which is shown to project members.

Use the wiki syntax to format the help text, for example to enter headlines or lists. You can also enter links, for example to additional documents or company guidelines.

On the work package page a questions mark - shown next to attributes - indicates that a help text exists for an attribute. Project members can simply click on the question mark to show the description for the attribute (defined in the administration).

As an admin you can edit attribute text field descriptions on the spot, e.g. to make adjustments or correct errors in the description.