Kanban Limitations

Kanban manages board projection and interaction. Your application supplies authorization rules and the backend used by the persistence adapter.

Area	Behavior
Toolbar and views	Install KanbanToolbarPlugin for card actions, search, field filters, history and board/table controls. Hosts can also set grid.kanban directly.
Card forms	The packaged editor is installed automatically. Configure its fields, intercept requests, or set grid.kanbanCardEditorDialog = false to supply your own UI. Use kanban.persistence to save canonical changes.
Remote data	kanban.remote loads one whole-board offset/limit stream. A known total plus placement placeholder enables fixed Infinity-style indexed skeleton chunks; otherwise pages append. Indexed create/delete must happen on the server followed by refreshRemote() so offsets stay stable. Filtering stays local, and the application owns persistence and server-wide validation.
External drag	Cross-board, cross-window, file, and third-party drag targets are not supported.
Swimlane order	Configuration-owned; swimlanes cannot be drag-reordered.
Column order	Uses RevoGrid’s core column move behavior. Pointer/touch capabilities follow that plugin; programmatic ordering remains available.
Sorting	Table sorting does not reorder board cards. orderField is authoritative while Kanban is active.
Translation packs	English is bundled; applications provide partial or complete translated labels.
Asynchronous validation	beforekanbancardmove cancellation is synchronous. For remote approval, configure persistence.prepareMove and call moveCardsAsync; pointer, keyboard, and context-menu moves use that path automatically.

Card pointer interaction supports mouse, pen, and touch. Keyboard card movement uses the focusable managed card shell and does not depend on browser-native HTML drag-and-drop.

Unknown workflow values use the Unmapped column by default, while invalid or duplicate card identities remain visible but immovable. Treat diagnostics as data-quality errors rather than hiding affected records.

Kanban remote loading and InfinityScrollPlugin share the same generic loader contract and fixed indexed chunks. Kanban additionally needs a lightweight placement placeholder because a global total cannot identify an unloaded card’s workflow column or swimlane. Do not enable both loaders on the same Kanban grid: Kanban must retain ownership of the projected row provider while its remote controller owns canonical cards. If multiple row-source owners are configured, the first active owner remains enabled and the later plugin disables itself with a console warning.