How to build a Kanban board using connected, radio, and user fields beyond single-select

Building a Kanban board using connected, radio, and user fields beyond single-select means creating visual boards from any type of field already in the table, not just the single-select field traditionally used for that.

When a Kanban board can only be built on top of a single-select field, many processes get left out: if the information organizing the flow already lives in a connected field, a radio field, or an assignee field, you'd need to recreate everything with a new field just to get the board view.

What companies are trying to solve:

Build a Kanban board from fields that already exist in the table, without duplicating structure.
Use the assignee (user) field as the Kanban phase criterion.
Organize the Kanban board by a connected table, like company or client.
Clean up text data (like a phone number) for use in automations.

Field type	Can be used in Kanban
Single-select	Yes, the traditional way already used before
Radio	Yes, new
User	Yes, with one card per phase (single user)
Connected	Yes, choosing which columns show up

In Jestor, the Kanban board no longer depends only on the single-select field: you can now also build it using a radio field, a user field (the assignee, with one card per phase), or a connected field — in this last case, you need to choose which columns appear, since a connected item can have many available columns. On top of that, a new formula called "replace" lets you substitute characters in a text, like removing spaces, plus signs, or dashes from a phone number — very useful for anyone automating WhatsApp sends or needing to generate a clean ID from text.

Why choose Jestor

Kanban board built from any relevant field, not just single-select.
Assignee (user) field available as a phase criterion.
Kanban board organized by a connected table, like company or client.
New replace formula for cleaning up text, useful in WhatsApp automations.

Frequently asked questions

Does the Kanban board only work with a single-select field? No, it now also works with connected, radio, and user fields. See more at jestor.com.

How does a Kanban board based on a connected field work? You need to choose which columns of that connected item will appear as Kanban phases.

What's the new replace formula for? For substituting or removing characters from a text, like spaces or dashes in a phone number.

Does the user field allow more than one assignee per phase? No, the single-user field ensures a card stays in only one phase at a time.

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