# Edit in place

Small changes without losing the board.

Most of what a process owner does during a stand-up is small: a request that was
just agreed needs to exist, a priority is wrong, an SLA date moved. None of that
is worth losing your place on the board for. AnyKanban keeps the small changes on
the card and sends everything else to the real Azure DevOps work item form,
because a form with your process's rules, required fields and extensions is not
something worth reimplementing.

## Pages

- **[Add an item without leaving the board](https://anykanban.com/docs/edit-in-place/add-an-item/)**: the **New item**
  button under the first column, where you type a title, press Enter, and the card is
  there. Any field other than state, type or project that the backing query
  sets with a plain equality to a fixed value is already filled in.
- **[Change a field without opening the item](https://anykanban.com/docs/edit-in-place/change-a-field/)**: click a
  field value on a card to edit it in place, including the host's people picker
  for **Assigned To**.
- **[Open the real work item form](https://anykanban.com/docs/edit-in-place/open-the-real-form/)**: clicking a card title
  opens the native Azure DevOps form, and the board picks up what you changed
  when you close it.

## What holds for all three

An edit to an item that already exists is a revision-checked write: the card
changes first, the server confirms, and a rejection reverts the card with the
server's own message rather than failing quietly. A new item has no revision to
check, so it is written outright and appears once the server has created it, and a
refusal there leaves nothing behind. Either way the failure is shown, never
swallowed. If a work item rule needs more than one field to be satisfied, the
card is the wrong place. Open the form.

None of this is available while the board shows an **As of** snapshot. A snapshot
is read-only end to end: no inline add, no inline field editing, and no right-click
menu on cards. Dismiss the snapshot banner to return to the live board.

## Related

- [User Guide](https://anykanban.com/docs/user-guide/): the whole product in one page
- [Prerequisites](https://anykanban.com/docs/prerequisites/): what has to exist before a board works