miguel-bm
July 11, 2022, 9:21am
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Hi! I’m a new user to Mattermost, loving it so far.
Something I’ve wanted to do a few times already is create a board card directly from a message. For example, if someone asks me to do something, can I somehow turn that message into a card in the kanban Board of that same channel or some other channel?
I’ve been looking around and googling and I’ve not been able to find a way to do this.
Cheers!
amy.blais
July 11, 2022, 11:30am
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Feel free to post this feature request in the Focalboard repo here Issues · mattermost/focalboard · GitHub .
Hi @miguel-bm Just wondering if you ever found a way to add a message to a board or if you have identified a work around that works for you?
Thanks!
agriesser
October 6, 2022, 3:44am
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Hi Julieo and welcome to the Mattermost forums!
This feature is not available at the moment, but already has been requested, here’s a link to the issue on GitHub:
opened 01:03PM - 04 May 21 UTC
Enhancement
Help Wanted
Up for grabs
Hacktoberfest
**Summary:**
1. Write a message on Mattermost, for example: `/card @tom Buy coo… kies`
2. This creates a card **Buy cookies** in Focalboard, assigned to **Tom**
This could be improved in the future with the following ideas:
3. Define a specific syntax to include additional information (content, date, board, status, priority, project, ...). For example `/card @tom Buy cookies [2 chocolate + 1 nuts]` would add the content **2 chocolate + 1 nuts** to the card
4. A message is automatically created on Mattermost, in reply to the original message (in the same thread), providing the link to the card on Focalboard
5. If no project/category is specified, it could be automatically flagged as "to be sorted"
As far as I understand:
6. I'm not sure how all this is already the project of https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/discussions/349
7. This feature would be the mirror feature of https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/282.
**How important this is to me and why:**
Importance: High
Use cases:
1. We use Mattermost extensively to manage todos. But the current plugin is not advanced enough and not transparent enough (not everybody can see all the pending tasks)
2. We discuss a topic on Mattermost, and a todo is decided: the follow-up is currently not easy, while Focalboard could provide that
**Additional context / similar features:**
With Asana, sending an email with a specific syntax creates a card/todo in Asana.
There’s also a related one which would allow adding messages to an existing card:
opened 09:34PM - 06 Sep 22 UTC
Enhancement
## Summary
When working on providing updates to board cards for a project tha… t I am tracking, I want to be able to take a comment from a Mattermost channel and push it to the card so I have a record of pertinent update or a decision that was made that affects the progress towards completion of the project.
See [thread](https://community.mattermost.com/core/pl/dt6kshfaj3yc5j5ceit4x4naur) for details.
## How important this is to me and why
Importance: Medium
Use cases:
1. Recording relevant posts/messages from Channels to the comments section in a card without having to manually open the card and copy/paste the content into the card comments.
## Additional context/similar features
Message Actions Menu from Channels
[Unique Card IDs](https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/624) would likely be a prerequisite to this feature.
For now there’s no workaround, the only thing that might help is to create an outgoing webhook or a custom slash command that uses the focalboard plugin’s API to create a card, but I’m not sure if this will work, just a thought (haven’t tried it either).