# Move between boards without going back to the list

A process owner who keeps one board for business requests and another for
change requests moves between them a dozen times a day. The board name in the
header is the switch: select it and pick the other board, without a detour via
the board list.

## Before you start

At least two boards in your list, counting the shared boards listed for you
(filed under the project or under a team, see
[who sees which boards](https://anykanban.com/docs/share-and-navigate/who-sees-which-boards/)) and your own **My boards**.
With a single board the header title is plain text, because there is nothing
to switch to, and no chevron appears.

## Steps

1. Open **AnyKanban** under **Boards** and open either board.
2. Select the board name in the header, where it carries a chevron. Enter or Space
   opens the menu when the name has focus.
3. Choose the board you want. The board you are already on is in the list too,
   but its entry is disabled.
4. To reach the full list instead of another board, select **Back** in the
   command bar.

## What you should see

The header title becomes the board you picked, and the columns are rebuilt from
that board's own work item type. Switch from the business-request board (New,
Triage, In Progress, In Review, Done) to the support-request board in the same
project, and a Waiting on customer column appears between In Progress and In
Review. The address bar's `?board=` value follows the switch,
so the link in your address bar is always the board on screen.

## Notes

Switching back to a board you had open earlier in the same tab shows its cards
at once, as they were the last time it loaded, with **Refreshing** at the
right of the tab row while the board reads them again. The new cards replace
them in one step, and until then nothing on the board can be dragged or
edited. A board you open for the first time in the tab waits for its own
cards, and so does one whose level or team has changed since. AnyKanban remembers the last four boards this way,
in the tab's memory only: nothing is written anywhere, and closing or
reloading the tab forgets them.

The menu lists the shared boards in your list, sorted by name, then your own
**My boards**, sorted by name. It includes boards you have never opened. It
holds exactly what the board list holds for you, so a colleague's **My
boards** are not in it, and neither is a shared board that is not listed for
you, such as another team's board when you may read only your own team's area
path. It closes again on Escape or Tab, both
of which hand focus back to the switcher, or on a click outside it; the arrows and Home/End walk
the list. Switching also updates what the hub reopens next time:
that memory is per user, so two people working in the same project can each
land on their own board. If you would rather not depend on the memory, since a
morning spent in a colleague's board moves it, mark one board as your default
instead, and switching stops changing where you arrive.

## Related

- [Choose the board AnyKanban opens](https://anykanban.com/docs/share-and-navigate/choose-the-board-that-opens/)
- [Give a board a link you can put in a wiki page](https://anykanban.com/docs/share-and-navigate/link-to-a-board/)
- [Put a board summary on a dashboard](https://anykanban.com/docs/share-and-navigate/put-a-board-on-a-dashboard/)
- [Copy a set of boards into another project](https://anykanban.com/docs/share-and-navigate/copy-boards-to-another-project/)