How to Use the Kanban Board Component in Flow
Summary
The Kanban Board screen component in Salesforce Flow lets you display collections of records as cards grouped by picklist fields, making it easier to track progress visually. This feature, introduced in the Spring '26 release, supports grouping cards by columns and subgroups, and calculates totals for numeric fields within each group. You can customize card content with up to five fields and organize status views with different header styles. While it only displays records and doesn’t support drag-and-drop editing, it reacts dynamically to changes in the source data, providing a clean, interactive status overview within Flows.
Takeaways
- Add and configure the Kanban Board component in Screen Flow to display record collections visually.
- Group Kanban columns by a picklist field and optionally add subgroups for detailed record categorization.
- Use Show Summary Field to calculate totals for numerical or currency fields in each column and subgroup.
- Customize card content by selecting a card header and up to five fields to display per card.
- Understand the component is read-only and updates reactively with source collection changes.
A Kanban board is a view that shows work as cards, usually grouped by a status or stage, so you can track progress at a glance. In Salesforce, you can already switch an object list view to Kanban and let Salesforce display records as cards grouped by a picklist field. In the Spring '26 release , Salesforce brought this experience into Screen Flow with a new Kanban Board screen component. With this component, you can display records in a Kanban view. Let’s see how to use the Kanban Board component in Flow. Kanban Board Screen Component Using the Kanban Board screen component, you can display a collection of records in a Kanban view. You can also group the cards, calculate totals for each group, and select up to five fields to display on each card. Let's see how to configure this component to display a collection of Opportunity records. 1- Select Data Source Add the Kanban Board to your screen, and give it a name and label. Then select the source collection.