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Comment by stewdellow | Hacker News Reader

Really cool. I'm a big Trello user, but it has some shortcomings so I'm always interested in new offerings.

Have imported one of my organisations and will work with a bit to see how this works out. The first thing that jumps out at me is the lack of Markdown support in the descriptions.

Also, why is there no select field / list option for custom fields?

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Cool! We found some limits in Trello too, which was part of the reason we started developing Zenkit. We're working on markdown support, as well as a couple of other fields ;)

What do you mean exactly by select field/list option? Do you mean select all items in a list in kanban?

Not exactly. It would be nice to define a select/dropdown list and some options. Then users can select one of those options for the card item.

That said I've used a labels custom field for my use case but I still think a dropdown list would have some merit.

By the way vertical/horizontal grouping in the Kanban options are superb. Really great idea.

Looks like when you open an item and try to move to another collection from the "Actions" drop down it doesn't work. Works on individual items from the collection view though.

Ah! Ok, got it, thanks! At the moment we use label fields for this function (in the field properties just choose not to allow users to create new labels, and only allow one to be selected). I’ll definitely forward on your dropdown suggestion though – I see your point. Also, thanks for the bug report. Would you mind sending your email address (& mention your HN username & issue) to info@zenkit.com? One of our developers will take a look at your case :)

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