Get started with Comala Boards
What is a board?
A Comala Board is a fast and effective way for you to brainstorm and visualize your content and ideas.
A board can be embedded in an existing page by adding the board macro.
Several board templates can be used to help you get started, such as the SWOT Analysis board.
An existing board template can be customized, or you can create your own board.
Add a board to a page
Edit a Confluence page
Select the Comala Boards macro to add the macro to the draft page
Choose an existing board in the board picker to add to the page
Available boards are displayed under different categories.
Choose a board to view the board outline details.
Boards are available for task management, strategic business frameworks, and agile processes.
Choose Insert to add the board to the macro on the draft page.
If you want to edit the board macro before adding it to the published page
Select the pencil tool to open the board editor
And if required, customize
The board layout
Container names
Icons
Colors
Choose Publish to add the board to the published page.
Cards can be added to the board by users without the need to edit the page.
Users can also drag cards between cells (or containers) on the board.
Moving a page-card (card linked to a page) between containers on the board changes the label(s) of the linked page to those of the new board container.
Click a container name on the published board to display the container description and any container labels.
Adding cards to a board
Cards can be added to any container on the board by users.
Cards can be simply cards on the board or page-cards with a linked Confluence page.
Add a card
Choose a container and either:
Hold the pointer over the top right corner and select the plus symbol +
Double-click the body of the container
Type the name required for the new card.
Choose Add.
Add a page-card
If a page exists in the current space with the proposed card name, you can select the suggested page to add as a card title
Choose Add to add the card to the container.
The new card is hyperlinked to the page as a page-card.
An option is provided to search for page names in other spaces.
Converting an existing card to a page-card with a linked Confluence page
Existing cards on the board can be converted to a page-card to create a linked Confluence page as a child page to the current page.
Then choose Convert to page.
Page-cards can also be created from existing Confluence pages in the space.
Type the first letters, and the possible options for a page to be linked to the card will be listed.
Edit a card
Choose a card to edit the contents of the card
Add or amend card contents
Choose the tick to confirm
If you add a soft return (shift/return) to create a new line of text in the card, only the first line is displayed on the card on the board.
Mouse over a card on the board to see any additional text (if present).
You cannot edit a page-card contents. However, any change in the title of the linked page is reflected in the card name on the board.
Remove a card
To remove a card from the board
Hold the pointer over a card
Choose the trashcan icon
Then choose Remove.
Removing a page-card does not delete the linked Confluence page or change the labels of the previously linked page.
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