# Configuring the view: board & table

Table and board are two presentations of the same ticket list — not separate features. You
switch between them at any time, and your settings apply only to you.

## Switch the presentation

1. Open a project's ticket list.
2. Toggle at the top between **Table** and **Kanban**.
3. On the board, drag tickets between columns to change their status.

The board groups by a select field (usually the status). If no such field exists, the table
stays active.

### Keys on the board

**Tab** enters the board once, on the card you last visited. From there:

| Key | Effect |
|---|---|
| **↑ ↓** | the card above or below; above the first the column head, below the last "+ Ticket" |
| **← →** | the neighbouring column, at the same height. If that column is shorter, its last card |
| **Enter** | open the ticket in the lane |
| **Space** | pick the card up and drop it |
| **Escape** | put a carried card back, otherwise close the lane |
| **Home / End** | the column's first or last card |

You move a picked-up card with the arrows; the column it is over gets an amber frame. The card
with the ring is where you stand; the tinted card is the one open in the lane. Both can be the
same card. A screen reader announces ticket, column and position at every step.

## Choose columns

At the far right of the table's header row sits a sliders icon with the number of chosen
columns. A click opens the column choice: a list of every field this list can show. A tick
means "show", the order means "how important". No. and title are always there, so they do not
appear in the list.

- **When the width runs out** for every chosen field, say because a ticket is open on the
  right, the top fields stay columns. What sits below that is dropped, unless you have
  **pinned** it: then its value moves into a line under the title. A thin line in the list
  shows from which field on the width runs out; it moves as you drag or narrow the window.
- **Pin** with the pin on the right of a row. No. and title are always pinned and cannot be
  changed. A pin belongs to the view just as the column choice does, and it survives unticking
  a column and ticking it again later.
- **Dragging orders.** Grab a row and pull it up so its field stays a column even when space is
  short. By keyboard: focus the row, then Alt with arrow up or down.
- **The choice belongs to the view and applies at once.** With the tab on "All tickets" it
  applies to your base view; with a saved view open it applies to that view. Every tick and every
  move is saved right away, there is nothing to confirm. A view someone shared with you read-only
  shows its columns but takes no tick.
- **A new view** takes over the columns the list shows when it is created and stands alone from
  then on. To bring every view of your own in this project onto one set, use "apply to all
  views" at the bottom of the column choice.

The **fields in the ticket header** are set separately via **Customize detail view**: what
appears in the header of an *open* ticket, such as assignment, time tracking, creation date,
followers, sub-tasks, or custom fields.

### Time tracked and billing status as columns

Two of the available columns come from time tracking:

- **Time tracked**: the total of every time entry on this ticket. A click opens the time
  list, filtered to exactly this ticket.
- **Billing status**: how far those entries are in billing: *Without billing*, *In billing*,
  *Billed*, or *Mixed* when several states occur at once.

Both columns only appear in the picker if you are allowed to see the project's time. If you
may only see your own, the column counts only yours.

<div class="docs-callout docs-callout--info">
  <div class="docs-callout__title">Board is desktop only</div>
  <p>The kanban board is not available on mobile devices. There you work in the table view.</p>
</div>

## Personal display settings

Two more settings don't apply per project but to you across all your organisations. You'll
find them in your personal **Settings**:

- **Comment order** (*Tickets* area): chronological (oldest first, default) or reverse (newest
  first).
- **Date and time format** (*Date/Time* area): relative (default, e.g. "3 days ago"), German
  format, international format, or a custom format — optionally per area (ticket header, large
  list, compact list, activity logs, comments).

## What's next

Set up which fields work as board columns under [Custom fields & tags](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/ticket-views/custom-fields-tags).
Save common views as [Saved filters](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/ticket-views/saved-filters).