jkanban support swimlane functionality ?

[MilanUnjiya4149]

I want to implement kanban with swimlane. jkanban support it?

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[marcosrocha85]

I fear that you can't implement swimlanes with jKanban. This project is, as the name says, Kanban based. So you can implement boards like Trello, Jira Kanban and so on.

[FWDekker]

It is not entirely clear to me why jKanban could not implement swimlanes. A large number of Kanban applications provide swimlanes (including Jira Kanban, cited in the comment above), and the Wikipedia page on Kanban also explicitly mentions swimlanes. From what I understand, the Kanban method itself is also not incompatible with using swimlanes. Do I misunderstand this or is there another issue preventing adding swimlanes to jKanban?

[marcosrocha85]

I think it's mostly because it's "vanilla" javascript. The only plugin being used is Dragula for drag-and-drop. But we still need pull requests to do that. 🥺

[FWDekker]

I see. Then, if I understand you correctly, it's not that swimlanes are inherently incompatible with jKanban, just that it's currently not feasible yet?

[riktar]

@FWDekker jKanban is a little JS library that implements ONLY Kanban board (drag and drop and some integrations with cards) in vanilla ways using a JSON to build all the board.

It's not a project manager software.

You can integrate a swimlane graph in jKanban, but it's not a prerogative of this library, so you must have to implement the adapter from swimlane graph to jKanban's JSON.

[FWDekker]

Thank you for the clarification, that makes sense to me :-)