For geniuen kanban flows we would really like to have the ready/blocked states introduced.

We made a request for this back in 2017 several times, so i hope posting it here will drag some more attention :).

The use of ready / blocked buttons really gives you the advantage of pull and not push, more over it reduces the amount of oddly names columns greatly.

Ready button and state:

- There should be a button on the Card and the Card view allowing to set a card ready

- Once clicked the Card should have green color/symbol/frame to visually indicate that this Card is ready to be pulled.

- Cards which are not marked as ready should not be able to be dragged to the next column. This should be configurable on a column level as it serves as ”secure gates”.

- When a ready Card is moved to another column it is no longer ready and should be marked as ”started” instead.

- The state changes of the ready status should be marked in the history every time

- Ready status should be availiable using the api and webhooks as a field

- Ready status should be availiable to set using the api

Blocked button and state:

- Blocked allows a clear indication that help is needed and is a visually strong way to signal ”danger”

- There should be a blocked button on the Card and the Card view.

- Once clicked the user should be promted for a reason why the Card is blocked as this i serious

- After the user have entered a message the Card should have red color/symbol/frame to visually indicate that Card is blocked for all.

- Blocked Cards should not be able to be moved to the next column. Instead a click on the ready button should remove the block.

- The state change of the blocked status should be marked in the history every time

- Blocked status should be availiable using the api and webhooks as a field

- Blocked status should be availiable to set using the api

Ive added a couple of screenshot of how a tool we used to use (now discontinued) did it, for inspiration :).

Its very important to note that doing a ready/blocked is 1 single click in the overview, you should not have to open the card.

Also filtering should support showing/not showing these cards.

Finally i would supect that you could simply use custom fields to achieve the state effect. Gui part is a different story, i know :).