# Move a card without dragging

Dragging across a wide board is awkward. The card's right-click menu moves the
same card in two clicks. This walkthrough keeps the keyword box narrowing the
board to the two complaint requests, and the menu offers the same entries as it
would with no filter at all.

## Before you start

The menu exists only on a live board. In an **As of** snapshot the card has no
context menu at all, because a snapshot cannot be changed.

## Steps

1. Open the board.
2. Type `complaint` into **Filter by keyword**. The board narrows to the
   requests whose id, title, state or tags contain that text. Nothing is
   switched off: you could still drag a card here.
3. Right-click the card *Handle complaints in one place instead of three
   inboxes*. A small menu opens at the pointer.
4. Read the entries. **Move to column ▸** opens a submenu with one entry per
   other column. **Move to top**, **Move to bottom** and **Move to position…**
   reorder the card inside the column it is in now. The filter from step 2
   takes none of them away, and the number **Move to position…** asks for
   counts the hidden cards too (see the Notes).
5. Open **Move to column** and select **In Progress**.

## What you should see

The menu closes and the card is at the **bottom** of *In Progress*, with the
state written exactly as a drag would write it. Ends mean the real ends: *Move
to top* and *Move to bottom* place the card at the top or bottom of the whole
column, not of the handful of cards the filter left visible.

Columns your process rules would reject are not offered at all, because opening
the menu asks the server which target states it would accept for you and this item,
and rejected columns drop out of the list as the answers arrive.

![The card context menu, with the states you may move to](https://anykanban.com/docs/_img/card-context-menu.png)

## Notes

**Move to top**, **Move to bottom** and **Move to position…** appear only when
the board has an order field it is allowed to write, and they change nothing but
the order, never the state, the Doing/Done side of a split column, or the
swimlane. On a board of backlog items all three are absent unless **Reorder
from this board** is on in the board's settings; in their place the menu says
that the backlog owns the order, or that the query controls it. Where that
setting is on and can take effect, and the query sorts by another field, a
card of the board's own type names that field instead. On a
card sitting in the **Unmapped** column, use a **Move to column** entry to give
it a state the board knows. **Escape** closes the menu and returns focus to the
card; so do **Tab** and a click outside it. Walk the entries with **↑** and
**↓**, which wrap around, or jump with **Home** and **End**. Inside a submenu
the first Escape closes just that submenu.

**Move to position…** counts the whole list the card is in, meaning the right
swimlane row and the right side of a split column, hidden cards included: with
a filter on, the number it asks for is a position in the full column, exactly
as the native board counts it. It opens with the card's current position
selected, so you type the new number and press **Enter**. **Cancel** or
**Escape** closes it and returns focus to the card's **⋯**, and so does a
save; the same holds for the confirmation **Delete** asks for.

The same menu is on every row of the **List** view, behind the **⋯** at the
row's right-hand end or a right-click. There **Move to top**, **Move to
bottom** and **Move to position…** count the whole List, because the List has
no columns, and **Move to column** moves the item to that column
without moving the row.
[See everything the query returned, in one list](https://anykanban.com/docs/find-and-analyze/everything-the-query-returned/)
goes through each entry as the List offers it.

The submenus work from the keyboard: **→** or **Enter** opens one, **↑**/**↓**
walk it, **←** or **Escape** goes back to the main list.

## Related

- [Move an item to the next state](https://anykanban.com/docs/move-work/move-to-the-next-state/)
- [Put a column in priority order](https://anykanban.com/docs/move-work/order-a-column-by-priority/)
- [Move a card with the keyboard alone](https://anykanban.com/docs/move-work/move-with-the-keyboard/)
- [A board for what the business asked for](https://anykanban.com/docs/guide-business-requests/)