The best application for task management, project management, and team collaboration

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................... 3
2. Prerequisites............................................................................................................. 4
3. Features ................................................................................................................... 4
4. Advantages............................................................................................................... 4
5. Getting Started.......................................................................................................... 4
6. Kanban Landing Page .............................................................................................. 4
6.1. Status Configuration........................................................................................... 5
7. Kanban Home Page ................................................................................................. 8
7.1. New Task ........................................................................................................... 9
7.2. Filter................................................................................................................. 13
7.3. Select Category................................................................................................ 15

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1. Introduction
To make any process, project or product a success, you need a perfect combination
of team work, task prioritization/distribution and management. In today’s world, plans
and priorities change rapidly and one needs to be on top of things and agile with the
changes. Kanban Board has been a great tool for such activities that many project
management tools have incorporated a Kanban board view for their cards, activities,
tasks or by whatever name they refer to these granularities of a milestone.
SharePoint being an Organization wide collaboration portal has a very nice feature for
managing assigning tasks via task list. It has a graphical view where the dependencies
can be tracked among other details. But if things are rapidly changing, there is no easy
way of reassigning or reprioritizing them. A feature like Kanban board will be of great
help for the Project Managers. Saketa has just the perfect solution that can fill this gap
for SharePoint users.
Saketa Kanban Board is a SharePoint add-in for SharePoint 2013 On-premise or Office
365 (Cloud) users that can give you a card view of the SharePoint tasks in a Kanban
board, with filtering by multiple options, sorting and a drag-able board to not only
reprioritize the tasks but reassign, change/update status, fill in default % completions
in a user friendly and intuitive way within the SharePoint.
Figure 1 Kanban Task Page

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2. Prerequisites
 Availability of SharePoint 2013 On- Premise or Online.
 Configured App Catalog
 Activated SharePoint profile services and an incremental AD sync would be
required.
3. Features
1. Acts as a task board to assign multiple tasks along with their priorities
2. Status/Categories of tasks can be customized as required.
3. Multiple filters to categorize tasks --- By start date, assigned user and due date
4. Tasks can be switched between categories with an easy drag and drop feature.
4. Advantages
 First and foremost is visualization, provide a view to your work.
 Separates task into subtasks and enhances clarity of work.
 Indicates task priorities with multi colors which are easy to track.
 Helps in focusing more on completion rather than just accumulation.
 Changes get reflected to all the team members once done by an individual.
5. Getting Started
Saketa Kanban Board is built on top of SharePoint 2013 Hosted App platform. You
need to add Kanban Board app into your SharePoint App catalogue, activate the
required features and then add the app in any SharePoint Page where you wish to use
it. Once all the required features are installed and activated, your app is ready to use.
6. Kanban Landing Page
Below landing page of Kanban Application is displayed once installation and activation
is completed.
Figure 2 Kanban Landing Page

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Except Status Configuration feature, all features are available on the landing page
for every user who has managerial authority in an organization. Only System
Administrators can access Status Configuration feature.
6.1. Status Configuration
Status configuration refers to multiple levels or categories in which a task is
categorized. For example, we can categorize a task into started, ongoing, half
completed and so on based on percentage level of completion. These categories
can be defined in Status Configurations along with related percentage level. By
default, Not started status/category represents 0% and Completed is 100%.
Apart from status/category assignment, you can also customize the sequence in
which they get displayed vertically on the Kanban board. To assign categories kindly
follow below mentioned steps:
1. On Kanban Landing Page, Status Configuration page is displayed as default
pop up where you can add Status/ Categories of tasks.
Figure 3 Status Configuration Pop-up

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2. By default, few status options are displayed on pop up page. You can proceed
further with same or can add or delete them. To add a new and delete the
existing one click Add or Delete Status.
3. As you click Add or Delete Status below pop up is displayed.
Figure 4 Add/Delete Status Pop-up
4. Slide the cursor on the required status and add or delete any status/category.
You can add any number of Status related to a Task.
Figure 5 New Status Adding Pop-up
5. Once changes are done click Update. Changes get updated and are reflected
on Status Configuration Page.

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Figure 6 Status Settings Pop-up
6. Percentage refers to the completion ratio of work. You can assign percentage
to multiple status ranging from 0 as Not Started to 100 as Completed.
Note: Percentage column can be left blank also, however when you drag any
Task from one category to other then it takes default value of task and it is
reflected same in other category also. However, if you provide a value here that
value will then be displayed in dragged task. For example, let’s go with deferred
case category.
Value is not defined Value (45) is defined

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7. Order refers to the pattern in which multiple status are displayed on Kanban
board in vertical form. You can customize the order as required.
8. Once all the status configurations are completed click Update. Changes get
updated and are reflected on Kanban Home Page.
7. Kanban Home Page
Kanban Home Page consists of multiple features which helps you in managing
assigned tasks and their representation. Let’s discuss every feature in detail as follows:

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Figure 7 Kanban Home Page
7.1. New Task
New task feature enables you to add a task under multiple status along with priority
level, start date, end date and so on. To add a new task kindly follow below steps:
1. On the left hand side of Home page, to add a task click New Task. New task
creation page is displayed.
2. On New Task Creation Page fill in the required details.
Note: In New task creation page predecessors refer to previous task name or
number to which you want to link the present task. It’s just a way of numbering tasks
in multiple Status.

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Figure 8 New Task Creation Page
3. If you want to attach any file along with the task, click Attach File. Attach file pop
up is displayed.
Figure 9 Attach a File Pop-up

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4. Chose the file and click OK. Files get attached.
5. Once all the details are filled, click ‘Save’. Task gets updated in assigned status in
the form of a Task Board.
Figure 10 Tasks Updated Page
6. Multiple colors in tasks board represents priority levels of task.
Green: Normal Priority
Red: High Priority
Orange: Low Priority
Apart from above colors, task board includes name of task, priority level, assigned
to, start date and end date.
7. To view enlarge view of Task Board just hover the cursor over it and below view
is displayed.
Figure 11 Task Board Enlarge View
8. You can edit or delete an added task by clicking on Edit and Delete sign on Task
board.
Task Board

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Figure 12 Task Board
9. To edit any task, click edit icon, update task page is displayed.
Figure 13 Update Task Page

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10.On Update Task Page, perform the required changes and click Update.
Information gets updated.
11.If you want to delete any task, on related task board click Delete Icon. A
confirmation message is displayed.
Figure 14 Delete Task Board Pop Up
12.Click Ok to delete or cancel if not.
13. If you want to move a particular task from one status to another status, you
can do so by just drag and drop. As you drag and drop the required task board
Task status and completion percentage also gets changed and is reflected in
Task board.
Before Dragging After dragging to Completed Category
7.2. Filter
Filter section enables you to filter task displayed on Kanban Board on basis of
three criteria’s. Criteria’s are on basis of all users, single users (Numbers can
vary) and date range. Once required changes are completed click Apply. Related
tasks get displayed on Kanban Board.

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Figure 15 Applying Filters Page
1. Once required changes are completed click Apply. Related tasks get displayed
on Kanban Board. For example, you selected user Joe Smith. Then all task
assigned to Joe Smith get displayed.
Before Selection
After Selection (Joe Smith)
As you select the filter type, line present adjacent to filter category gets replaced
by new filters.

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Figure 16
7.3. Select Category
Category section enables you to filter task boards on basis of Start Date, Due
Date and Users. This is another method to filter in order to get desired results,
however in category section selected category forms a new vertical and task are
represented accordingly.
Let us look at an example:
1. On right hand side of Home Page Click Select Category.
Figure 17 Select Category Drop Down
2. In Category, select Start date.
Before Selecting Category

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After Selecting Start Date
3. In similar fashion you can get results for other filters including due date (end
date) and users.