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Choose the board AnyKanban opens

A team lead who lives on one board and visits the others twice a month should not arrive at a list, and should not have to trust that the tool remembered correctly. Mark that board as your default and it opens every time, including the times you spent yesterday afternoon in somebody else's board.

The choice is yours alone. Two people working in the same project can mark different boards, and neither sees the other's; nothing about it travels in a shared link, an export or a dashboard widget.

Before you start

At least one named board in the project. The ad-hoc Board tab on a query's results has no definition behind it, so there is nothing to mark.

Steps

From the board list:

  1. Open AnyKanban under Boards. If a board opens instead of the list, select Back in the command bar.
  2. Select the star at the left of the row. It fills in, and a message confirms which board now opens.

From the board itself, which is where you will be once one opens:

  1. Select ⋯ (More actions) in the board's command bar.
  2. Choose Set as default.

What you should see

The star of the chosen row is filled and accented; every other row's is an outline. In the board's menu the entry reads Default board ✓ once it is set. Leave AnyKanban and come back from the left navigation, or reload while the board list is showing, and that board opens directly. An address that names a board works differently: a reload while another board is open, or a bookmark you saved while on a board, opens the board in that address (see Notes).

Undo it

Select the filled star again, or choose Default board ✓ in the board's menu. You are back to the default behavior: AnyKanban reopens the board you had open last, and shows the board list when there is nothing to reopen.

Notes

A shared link still wins. A URL carrying ?board=, whether from Copy link, a wiki page or a dashboard tile, opens the board it names, whatever your default is. That is the point of sending someone a link, and it is true for your own bookmarks too. It opens the board only for people the board is listed for (see who sees which boards). Anyone else reads This board does not exist, or you don't have permission to read the work it shows.

Deleting the board clears the choice, and a board that disappears for any other reason (someone else deleted it, you lost access to its project) is not an error: AnyKanban falls back to the board you used last, and then to the list. A board that is no longer in your list is passed over the same way, without a message. That happens when it reads a team whose area paths you may no longer read, for example after an administrator narrowed the area paths you may read. Both your default and the board you used last are checked like this before either opens. Each is checked against Azure DevOps's answer about that board alone, so it opens as soon as that answer arrives, without waiting for the answers about other teams' boards. A board you created, or one in your own My boards, opens at once.

It is stored in your Azure DevOps, in the same per-user preferences that hold your collapsed columns and your Board-or-List choice. Nothing is written to your device and nothing leaves your organization.