Slack-bot, Grid view, and other summer updates

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Summer is over, but Kaiten updates never end.

Brand new Slack bot

Subscribe for notifications in Slack!
Finally, we have updated our Slack chatbot!

Does your team actively use Slack and you don’t want to miss any event in your Kaiten workspace? Now it’s not an issue — you can subscribe any slack channel on any Kaiten card event! What do you have to do to make it happen? Invite bot to the desired channel — /invite @kaitenbot and subscribe /kaiten subscribe event1 event2 …

Yes, it’s that easy!

Which events can you subscribe on?
Here they are:
creation — card creation notifications
movement — card movement notifications
comments — card comments notifications
members — card members notifications
block — card blocking and unblocking notifications

Then you have to choose desired space, board, column and lane in Kaiten — now you won’t miss any urgent event!

Experiment with your subscriptions, don’t hesitate and worry, you have always an opportunity to remove any subscription with command /slack unsubscribe.

If you have any feedback or suggestions — contact us and we’ll respond immediately! In the nearest future, our bot is going to be more friendly and functional!

Grid view

Most of you have already noticed that the Archive tab has disappeared, and the Grid section appeared instead.

The Grid is a much more powerful tool than an archive. There you can view all your tasks, both active and archived, in the form of a grid with the possibility of filtering, and also opening cards in the form of a tree.

We continue to refine this section, so all your wishes are useful — feel free to write to us.

New features in the card

Too much description? Hide the superfluous, adding text “[[MORE]]” to it after the next paragraph. The size of the card will be reduced, and the remaining text can always be opened as needed.

Pleased with the colleague’ comment? Express your emotions by reacting with emoji.

And more…

- In the “Dashboard” section, the “Activity” tab now appears, here you can recall everything you did on any spaces

- Tags can now be deleted completely from the “Tags” section in the left menu

- The default card type can be selected not only for the whole board but also for a separate swimlane

We made many more small improvements, but writing about everything is too long.

Thank you for being with us!