Workflows in ASP.NET Core Kanban

24 Sep 20219 minutes to read

Workflows can be defined to set the flow of card moving between the Kanban column statuses and it is applicable to drag and drop and context menu features.

You can set [kanbanworkflows] as array of Objects which consists of key and allowed-transitions properties. The allowed-transitions accepts more than one transition of the specific column key mentioned in key property.

If a card is to be dragged to not allowed transition columns, then not supported warning symbol will be displayed for denoting the error.

The following code example describes the above Workflow functionality.

<ej-kanban id="KanbanBoard" allow-selection="true" allow-title="true" key-field="Status" dataSource="ViewBag.datasource">
            <e-kanbanworkflows>
                <e-kanbanworkflow key="Open" allowed-transitions=@(new List<string>(){"InProgress"})></e-kanbanworkflow>
                <e-kanbanworkflow key="InProgress" allowed-transitions=@(new List<string>(){"Testing","Close"})> </e-kanbanworkflow>
            </e-kanbanworkflows>
            <e-kanbancolumns>
                <e-kanbancolumn header-text="Backlog" key=@(new List<string>(){"Open"})>
                </e-kanbancolumn>
                <e-kanbancolumn header-text="In Progress" key=@(new List<string>() {"InProgress"})></e-kanbancolumn>
                <e-kanbancolumn header-text="Testing" key=@(new List<string>() {"Testing"})></e-kanbancolumn>
                <e-kanbancolumn header-text="Done" key=@(new List<string>() {"Close"})></e-kanbancolumn>
            </e-kanbancolumns>
            <e-kanbanfield content="Summary" primary-key="Id" swimlane-key="Assignee">
            </e-kanbanfield>
     </ej-kanban>
namespace samplebrowser.Controllers
{
    public partial class KanbanBoardController : Controller
    {
        List<Tasks> Task = new List<Tasks>();

        public ActionResult Default()
        {
            Task.Add(new Tasks(1, "Open", "Analyze the new requirements gathered from the customer.", "Story", "Low", "Analyze,Customer", 3.5, "Nancy", "../content/images/kanban/1.png", 1));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(2, "InProgress", "Improve application performance", "Improvement", "Normal", "Improvement", 6, "Andrew Fuller", "../content/images/kanban/2.png", 1));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(3, "Open", "Arrange a web meeting with the customer to get new requirements.", "Others", "Critical", "Meeting", 5.5, "Janet Leverling", "../content/images/kanban/3.png", 2));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(4, "InProgress", "Fix the issues reported in the IE browser.", "Bug", "Release Breaker", "IE", 2.5, "Janet Leverling", "../content/images/kanban/3.png", 2));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(5, "Testing", "Fix the issues reported by the customer.", "Bug", "Low", "Customer", 3.5, "Steven walker", "../content/images/kanban/5.png", 1));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(6, "Close", "Arrange a web meeting with the customer to get the login page requirements.", "Others", "Low", "Meeting", 2, "Michael Suyama", "../content/images/kanban/6.png", 1));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(7, "Validate", "Validate new requirements", "Improvement", "Low", "Validation", 1.5, "Robert King", "../content/images/kanban/7.png", 4));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(8, "Close", "Login page validation", "Story", "Release Breaker", "Validation,Fix", 2.5, "Laura Callahan", "../content/images/kanban/8.png", 2));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(9, "Testing", "Fix the issues reported in Safari browser.", "Bug", "Release Breaker", "Fix,Safari", 1.5, "Nancy", "../content/images/kanban/1.png", 2));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(10, "Close", "Test the application in the IE browser.", "Story", "Low", "Testing,IE", 5.5, "Margaret", "../content/images/kanban/4.png", 3));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(11, "Validate", "Validate the issues reported by the customer.", "Story", "High", "Validation,Fix", 1, "Steven walker", "../content/images/kanban/5.png", 5));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(12, "Testing", "Check Login page validation.", "Story", "Release Breaker", "Testing", 0.5, "Michael Suyama", "../content/images/kanban/6.png", 3));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(13, "Open", "API improvements.", "Improvement", "High", "Grid,API", 3.5, "Robert King", "../content/images/kanban/7.png", 3));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(14, "InProgress", "Add responsive support to application", "Epic", "Critical", "Responsive", 6, "Laura Callahan", "../content/images/kanban/8.png", 3));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(15, "Open", "Show the retrieved data from the server in grid control.", "Story", "High", "Database,SQL", 5.5, "Margaret", "../content/images/kanban/4.png", 4));
            ViewBag.datasource = Task;
            return View();
        }
    }
    public class Tasks
    {
        public Tasks()
        {
        }
        public Tasks(int Id, string Status, string Summary, string Type, string Priority, string Tags, double Estimate, string Assignee, string ImgUrl, int RankId)
        {
            this.Id = Id;
            this.Status = Status;
            this.Summary = Summary;
            this.Type = Type;
            this.Priority = Priority;
            this.Tags = Tags;
            this.Estimate = Estimate;
            this.Assignee = Assignee;
            this.ImgUrl = ImgUrl;
            this.RankId = RankId;
        }
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Status { get; set; }
        public string Summary { get; set; }
        public string Type { get; set; }
        public string Priority { get; set; }
        public string Tags { get; set; }
        public double Estimate { get; set; }
        public string Assignee { get; set; }
        public string ImgUrl { get; set; }
        public int RankId { get; set; }
    }
}

The following output is displayed as a result of the above code example.

Workflows