Build a board with your own columns and fields.

Start from a template, set your own columns, put your own fields on the cards, and deploy it into the department that owns the work. View it as a kanban, a table, a list, a calendar or a timeline.

Deployed to OperationsSite Works18 items, 4 columnsAdd item
ColumnsYoursno request
FieldsYoursno dev work
AutomationsCan watch itno export
PermissionsThe HQ'sno second model
A board, not a spreadsheet nobody opens.
One boardWork nobody ships a module for, running inside the platform

Build the board, put your own fields on the cards, and deploy it into the department that owns the work. The items are records, so everything else can see them.

A board you built

Your columns and your fields.

Switch between layouts and you are looking at the same items a different way, not a second board. Cards show the fields you added, including one as a colour stripe down the edge, and the board lives inside the department it belongs to, not in a separate app.

NearSyncOperationsCustom BoardsSearch, plan and askKAll hubs
Site WorksDeployed to OperationsNew item
Requested4
New signage, Deira branchFit-out
AC service contractFacilities
Approved3
Warehouse rackingFit-out
In progress2
Reception refreshFit-out
Done9Nothing here

Items on your board work like everything else in NearSync.

Build it

Five ways to view one board.

Switching layout shows the same items a different way. There is never a second board to keep up to date.

  • Start from a template instead of an empty board
  • Name the columns after the stages your work moves through
  • Show your own fields on each card as a badge, a metric or a colour stripe
  • View the board as a kanban, a table, a list, a calendar or a timeline
Site WorksOne board
KanbanBy stage
TableBy column
ListBy order
CalendarBy date
TimelineBy span
Switching
Same itemsYes
Same fieldsYes
RebuildNone
Start from a templatethen change the columns to your own
Deploy it

Put the board inside the department that owns the work.

The board follows that department's permissions, so there is no second set of access rules to manage.

  • Deploy a board into the department that owns the work
  • Run an automation when an item moves to a new column
  • Use custom fields to decide what each card shows
  • Include the board in reports without exporting anything
DeployedOperations
Appears inThe HQ
Not inA boards app
PermissionsThe HQ's
ItemsReal records
So it can
TriggerA workflow
CarryCustom fields
FeedReports
The card shows your fieldsas a badge, a metric or a colour stripe
Item timeline

Every item has a timeline your team can talk on.

Open an item and post an update, naming the people who need to see it. Replies thread underneath, and a colleague's reply appears while you are still reading. Everything said about the work stays on the work, instead of in somebody's inbox.

Site survey, unit 4
Update postedBy Priya, with two people named
RepliesThreaded under it
Written inProper text, with names
New replies arrive without a refresh
The table

Switch to the table and edit without opening anything.

Every field you added gets its own column. Sort by any of them, then change a value straight in the row. It is the same items as the board, so a change here shows on the card the moment you make it.

Forty items
Sort byAny column
EditIn the row
Your fieldsOne column each
The same items, read a different way
Gone quiet

A card tells you when nothing has happened to it.

An item nobody has touched for a week is marked, and one left for three weeks is marked more strongly. Anything past its date reads as overdue. You can also narrow the whole board to one person and see only what they are carrying.

Untouched
A weekMarked quiet
Three weeksMarked louder
Past its dateReads overdue
Narrow the board to one person in a click

Access

Who can do what.

Anyone can add items and move them along. Building a board and deploying it into a department shapes what a whole team looks at every morning, so it needs a higher permission.

See

See a board and the items on it.

Do

Add items and move them between columns.

Manage

Build boards, set columns and choose card fields.

Admin

Deploy a board into a department.

Admin is the highest role and is not constrained by the permission grid, so it is worth keeping to the smallest group that genuinely needs it.

One board, start to finish

A board built in an afternoon, out of a spreadsheet.

Work that lived in a spreadsheet became a board with its own columns and fields, deployed into Operations. Once it was there, an automation could watch it and the reports included it, with nothing exported by hand.

Real work with no ready-made module for it, so it was living in a spreadsheet.

Board guides

See Operations on your own data.

Half an hour on the boards, fields and workflows your company actually runs on.