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make column or text size of kanban board adjustable

  • August 27, 2020
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We use the kanban board swimlanes for our user stories, i.e. the tasks in a swimlane represent subtasks of this userstory. Therefore the swimlane name should be the user story name, but it’s usually too short. It would be nice if we could adjust the column width or the texts size of the swimlane title to make the kanban board more comprehensible.

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Adding a comment to this to keep it on the radar for a future enhancement. It really would be beneficial to be able to have increase the column width and allow more cards horizontally in column than just one single vertical column

 


Completely agree. It would be great to be able to adjust the width of columns. Love the Kanban functionality - but for a team of even four people, the kanban board just becomes too long if you can only run your cards vertically - and can’t have more than one card horizontally. 

 

We end up just making up a table with post it notes - which is a real shame as we don’t have the benefits of all the fields that are available in the Kanban boxes. 


100% agree Pam; so much so I’m copying/pasting your reply to try and get visibility for this.  At the moment we have a kanban that is a mile long but only a foot wide 😥

Adding a comment to this to keep it on the radar for a future enhancement. It really would be beneficial to be able to have increase the column width and allow more cards horizontally in column than just one single vertical column


  • New Here
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  • February 22, 2024

I feel the same pain. It would be great to be able to freely adjust the Kanban board :-)


  • Beginner
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  • December 17, 2024

Adding another comment to this to reiterate the need for expanding the width. 


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  • Mironeer
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  • December 18, 2024

hi everyone,

Thanks so much for sharing your feedback on this feature. We appreciate it. 

Our team is reviewing this, and it is open for votes and comments. For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request.


  • New Here
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  • February 6, 2025

I’m new to Miro, and I assumed I was using it wrong or not seeing something- I have a wee little two-column thing in the middle of a vast expanse of emptiness, and many of the cards are double line so it got so long I have to scroll. This seems like an obvious thing to be able to adjust!


  • New Here
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  • February 21, 2025

Here is my workaround: 

Create an additional column and name it the same as the column you want to have wider. I also changed the color bar so that visually it looks the same. Now I have a double-width column and can keep more cards without making the Kanban board so long. The downside is that you will need to add the number of items at the top together to know the full number.

 

 


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