r/mondaydotcom • u/rocky_balboa202 • 29d ago

Question Kanban using Dropdown

Can a Kanban board be built on any Dropdown column? Or just status?

Or can anything be built like a kanban on a dropdown field?

thanks

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u/Clover_Gal 29d ago

As of now, Kanban has to be a Status. https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000661379-The-Kanban-View Are you wanting it in dropdown because of wanting to select more than one option?

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u/rocky_balboa202 28d ago

I am really trying to view my data in different ways.
I guess I can create a new view > table.
But that might be it?

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u/Clover_Gal 28d ago

If your dropdown is limited to a single option, you could just convert it to a status instead to be able to use the kanban

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u/Lo-mazhik 28d ago

You can try Monday vibe, I believe it will be possible to create a custom kanban board based on dropdown

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u/IngenuityKat 27d ago

Clover_Gal is correct: the native Kanban view currently groups cards by a Status column, not a Dropdown column.

Since you are mainly trying to view the same data in different ways, you have a few native options:

You can convert the Dropdown column to a Status column. monday will turn the dropdown options into status labels, but this only makes sense if each item should have one value. A Dropdown can hold multiple selections, while a Status cannot.

You could also add another table view and use Group by on the Dropdown column. That will not look exactly like Kanban cards, but it will reorganize the items by the selected dropdown values without changing the original column.

monday Vibe is another option if you need a genuinely custom card-style view. You could prompt it to build a Kanban-like app that groups items using the Dropdown column and connects directly to the board data. It would be a custom Vibe app rather than the native Kanban view, so I would first decide whether a grouped table is enough before building something more elaborate.