# Boards: Can I create a board card directly from a message? **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [July 11, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/boards-can-i-create-a-board-card-directly-from-a-message/13667 "2022-07-11T09:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![miguel-bm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/miguel-bm/32/5634_2.png) [@miguel-bm](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/miguel-bm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/boards-can-i-create-a-board-card-directly-from-a-message/13667/1 "2022-07-11T09:21:42Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![amy.blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/amy.blais/32/7481_2.png) [@amy.blais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/amy.blais)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/boards-can-i-create-a-board-card-directly-from-a-message/13667/2 "2022-07-11T11:30:47Z")
Feel free to post this feature request in the Focalboard repo here [Issues · mattermost/focalboard · GitHub](https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues). ---
**Author:** ![Julieomaxwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Julieomaxwell](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/Julieomaxwell)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/boards-can-i-create-a-board-card-directly-from-a-message/13667/3 "2022-10-05T22:58:37Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![agriesser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/agriesser/32/5644_2.png) [@agriesser](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/agriesser)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/boards-can-i-create-a-board-card-directly-from-a-message/13667/4 "2022-10-06T03:44:22Z")
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: > > > \*\*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: > > > \## 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 > !\[Screen Shot 2022-09-06 at 5 25 36 PM\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/93531870/188742786-581754a9-255e-4ba8-a935-509980a34671.png) > > \[Unique Card IDs\](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).