Work

Work is the office board. Every piece of work Adrián hands out leaves a card here, and the card tells you what was asked for, of whom, what state it is in and what came back.

A card that says “in progress” is someone actually working: the row is opened by the delegation itself and closed by the role’s report. A card that does not move is work that did not move.

You get there from Work in the left menu. The top bar title also says “Work”.

The header

Element	What it does
Title and explanation	“Work in progress”, with the two instructions for use: drag to move, click to view
Person selector	Filters the cards by who is carrying them. The first option is “Whole team”; the rest are the names that appear on the cards
Refresh	Requests the board from the server again. Always available

The selector filters by the name of whoever carries the task. The options come from the cards themselves, so only names currently on the board appear. It changes nothing on the server: it just stops showing cards.

The summary

Below the header there is a row of indicators:

Indicator	What it counts
live / reconnecting	Whether the notification channel is open. When it says “live”, the board updates instantly; if the connection drops, it says so and keeps refreshing every 30 seconds
N in total	Every card on the board
N pending	Those in the first column
N in progress	Those being worked on right now
N blocked	Those that got stuck
N finished	Those that are done

The columns

Four, always in this order:

Column	What it contains
Pending	Noted and not started yet. If empty it says “Nothing pending”
In progress	What is being done now
Blocked	What got stuck. The card shows the beginning of what came back, so you can see why
Finished	What is done

There is a fifth state, discarded, which has no column: whatever is withdrawn disappears from the board. The board loads at most 200 cards.

The board does not filter by project. It shows the whole office’s work, whichever project it belongs to. The project you have selected on the left changes the conversation and the documents, not this list.

The card

Element	When it appears
Title	Always. It is what was asked for, in one sentence
Who	Always. The name of whoever carries it; with neither name nor role, “unassigned”
Time	On cards in progress, how long they have been going since they started. On finished ones, how long they took
Notice	Only on blocked ones: the first 110 characters of what came back

The time format is human: “under 1 min”, “45 min”, “2 h 15 min”, “3 d”.

Moving a card

You drag it from one column to another and drop it. The card moves on screen instantly and the server confirms afterwards; if the server says no, the card goes back where it was and the error is shown.

Moving a card does not set anyone to work. It changes the state and nothing more: here you are in charge, and if you say something is finished, it is finished. Real work is opened by Adrián’s delegation, and then the card moves by itself.

Changes arrive over an open channel: when another tab, or Adrián himself, moves a card, this screen finds out without you pressing anything. Every 30 seconds there is also a safety poll in case the channel drops.

Noting a task by hand

Each column has a + in the header. It opens a form inside the column:

Field	What it is
What needs to be done	The title. Required. Enter notes it, Escape cancels
Detail: what is asked for and what it must return	Free text, two lines high
Role selector	“Unassigned” or any of the team’s roles

Buttons:

Button	What it does	When it is active
Note it	Creates the card in that column	Disabled while the title is empty
Cancel	Closes the form without creating anything	Always

The task is left with whoever requested it set to your name. It is there so you do not lose sight of a piece of work: it is not sent to anyone and it does not run.

Viewing a whole card

Clicking a card opens its detail, over the screen. Close it with the X or by clicking outside.

Element	What it shows
Status badge	The internal state, with the underscore replaced by a space: pending, in progress, blocked, done
Title	The card’s
Who does it	The name or the role; “unassigned” if there is neither
Who requested it	Whoever commissioned it; “—” if not recorded
Time	How long it has been going or how long it took; “—” if there is no data
What was asked for	The full detail, or “No detail.”
What it returned	The result, or “No result yet: the work has not finished.”
Action buttons	Whichever match its state, per the table below

Which button appears in each state

State	Buttons	What each one does
pending	Start	Moves it to in progress and starts the clock
pending	Withdraw	Discards it: it disappears from the board
in progress	Finish	Moves it to finished and stops the clock
in progress	Block	Moves it to blocked
blocked	Retry	Sends it back to in progress
blocked	Withdraw	Discards it
finished	Reopen	Sends it back to pending

“Withdraw” is the only button marked as dangerous. When you press any action, the detail closes and the card moves to its column.

If something fails

Errors appear in a red box over the board, with the text the server returns. The usual cases: the board could not be read, the card could not be moved, or it could not be created. In the last two, the screen re-reads the real state instead of leaving you with a lie on screen.