Card attributes help you expose data about roadmap items without having to open the item itself or navigate to a different board. You can configure each roadmap independently to surface different combinations of attributes so that each audience gets the data they need without being overwhelmed.
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Card attributes for Legacy roadmaps
On Legacy roadmaps, you can toggle card attributes from the Configure menu near the top right corner of the board. Here is a breakdown of the options you'll find inside.
Timeline visualization
Adjusts the fidelity of the timeline between weeks, months, and years.
Time horizons
Rounds the timeframes of your roadmap items to conform to your chosen timeline visualization fidelity. For example, if your timeline is set to monthly, all items will display as month-long blocks.
See How to add time horizons to your roadmap for details.
See How to add time horizons to your roadmap for details.
Feature and subfeature visualizations
You'll see three settings across these two options. Flat list means those items' timeframes will appear to match their parents' timeframes. Duration means those items will display their own timeframes. End date means those items will appear as single blocks conforming to the last week, month, or quarter of their timeframes.
People
Display the owner, teams, or custom member fields associated with this item. An item can have multiple teams but only one owner. Set this data from each item's details panel or from features board columns (Add columns > Default fields or Custom fields). You can create custom member fields from the Data section.
See Owning entities in Productboard, Enable advanced team collaboration, and Add custom fields to your boards for details.
See Owning entities in Productboard, Enable advanced team collaboration, and Add custom fields to your boards for details.
Labels
Display the item's tags or values from a specific custom field. You can create custom fields from the Data section.
See How do tags work in Productboard? and Add custom fields to your boards for details.
See How do tags work in Productboard? and Add custom fields to your boards for details.
Effort
Display the item's effort field, which usually represents story points, work weeks, or person hours. Set this data from each item's details panel or from features board columns (Add columns > Default fields).
See How does the Effort Field work? for details.
See How does the Effort Field work? for details.
Objectives
Display any objectives associated with this item. Objectives usually represent strategic company goals or OKRs. Set this data from each item's details panel or from features board columns (Add columns > Objectives). You can create objectives from the Data section.
See Prioritize around clear objectives for details.
See Prioritize around clear objectives for details.
User Impact Score
If you are collecting feedback and linking it to features from an insights board, this will show each item's aggregate score.
See Link user feedback to related feature ideas using insights or Quick start guide: Feedback for details.
See Link user feedback to related feature ideas using insights or Quick start guide: Feedback for details.
Health
Display whether the current item is on track, at risk, or off track. This is a manually-updated field that lets PMs keep folks updated on how features are progressing at a glance.
See Providing health updates for your features for details.
See Providing health updates for your features for details.
Comments
Toggles whether roadmap visitors can click on little speech bubbles to leave comments on roadmap items. Even if toggled off, visitors can still leave comments by clicking on the item and scrolling through its details panel until they reach the comments section.
Dependencies visualization
Toggle Enable dependencies to display a clickable icon on each item which displays anything blocking or blocked by this item. Toggle Display lines to visualize connections between items that appear on the roadmap.
Progress
Feature progress displays a thin blue bar at the top of each item, while Objective progress color-codes objectives slightly differently based on progress. "Progress" is defined as the percentage of direct children with statuses that are considered complete. Admins can adjust which statuses are considered complete by marking them as such from the status customization section (Main menu > Settings).
Objective visualization
Allows you to change whether objectives should be color-coded based on objective status or theme, and to visualize any teams assigned to objectives as badges on the objective card.
See How to color code your objectives by theme for details.
See How to color code your objectives by theme for details.
Note: In the swimlane options, the Customizeable and Custom fields options are different. The former allows you to manually create swimlanes that appear on this roadmap only, while the latter are data fields that can be configured from the Data section and reused across many roadmaps and features boards.
Card attributes for timelines and columns boards
Card attributes in Productboard allow you to display key information directly on roadmap cards, enhancing visibility and streamlining your workflow. This feature is available on both timeline and column boards across all item types.
Displaying card attributes on New boards
- Navigate to your timeline or column board.
- In the top right header, you can find the “Configure” menu
- Select which item type you want to add the card attribute to (e.g. objective, initiative, features, releases)
- Select which attributes you want to display on your cards.
Editing Attributes
You can edit attributes directly on the card:
- Click on the attribute you wish to edit.
- Make your changes in the inline editor.
- Your changes will be saved automatically.
- Please note: If you change attribute from the roadmap cards, sometimes you need to click on “refresh” in the top right to see the latest changes.
List of available card attributes
Here are the card attributes currently supported for timelines and columns boards:
Owner
Displays the workspace member assigned as the owner of each item.
See Owning entities in Productboard for details.
Teams
Timeframe
Display each item's timeframe. This is particularly useful if your audience prefers a columns board layout but you still need to convey timeframe information.
See Use the Timeframe column to plan your features against time for details.
Custom fields
- Member: Visualize an important person connected to the item (e.g., designer, tech lead)
- Custom date field: Visualize essential milestones for the item (e.g., GA date)
- Single select: Visualize important categorization of the item (e.g, investment bucket, persona)
- Multiselect: Visualize important categorization of the item (e.g., platform, persona, country)
- Number: Visualize numerical context (e.g., ARR, capacity estimate)
- Text: Visualize any other information important to the item
See Add custom fields to your boards for details.
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