Kanban Board Mod for TIBCO Spotfire

Visualize tasks or items in different stages or categories.

Kanban boards visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of a process. Color of the card is typically used for categorization like type of task, priority, or component.

As a basic example you can have three columns "to do", "doing" and "done" and the list of tasks in respective column according to their current status. You could also use a Kanban-like board to plan activities and have columns for upcoming sprints or quarters with activities planned for that columns.

But the Kanban Board visualisation can also be used to simply group items in columns.

New in version 1.1

You can also add an icon to the cards to indicate certain situations of a task or item like existing impediment, complexity or priority. A certain list of icons is available. Add an attribute to the Icon axis, that contains the icon name as a string like flag, bookmark, bug, lock, ambulance. See supported icons here.

To Do's

• Render hierarchy with tree as header
• Swimlanes
• Font color from theme
• Catch error if no column or card is defined by user
• Option to show ellipsis or complete text
• Option to center or left align text on cards
• Option to hide or show empty columns

Limitations

The following features of a Kanban Board are currently not supported by Kanban Board Mod for TIBCO Spotfire, but might be implemented in a future release

• Ability to define max number of cards per column as column capacity. In a more advanced Kanban board you could have limits for "Work in Progress", that means get a visual warning if a certain column contains more items that a defined maximum.
• Support for swimlanes in Kanban board. An advance Kanban board could have swimlanes for different topics, teams or categories of items.

How to get started (with development server)

All source code for the mod example can be found in the src folder. These instructions assume that you have Node.js (which includes npm) installed.

• Open a terminal at the location of this example.
• Run npm install. This will install necessary tools. Run this command only the first time you are building the mod and skip this step for any subsequent builds.
• Run npm run server. This will start a development server.
• Start editing, for example src/main.js.
• In Spotfire, follow the steps of creating a new mod and connecting to the development server.