Kanbanize

Important: This connector and its actions have been removed from Nintex Automation Cloud and can now be found in Nintex Gallery.

Kanbanize is a tool for project and portfolio managers that uses Kanban-style features for Agile project management. It enables you to visualize and track progress of projects. With Kanbanize you visualize the project plan in dedicated Management Boards and break down the work across one or more Team Boards. This creates a work hierarchy that spans multiple levels in the organization and creates unmatched transparency across the whole value stream. As teams complete work on their team boards, the progress, and potential risks, are visualized on your management boards automatically. In the context of Nintex Automation Cloud, Kanbanize is a connector A software component that allows seamless integration with third-party services, business applications, and content stores. Examples include Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft SharePoint. Connectors are used to create connections required for workflow actions and start events. used to create connections for Kanbanizeactions A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process.. You can use Kanbanize actions to manage your projects, for example, you can move a task to a higher position in a column to indicate it has a higher priority.

Use the task actions in a workflow to create a new task, get task information or move a task. Use the Get board settings action to retrieve a list of board settings. Use the Get columns and lanes action to retrieve a list of information for each column and lane in a board. Use the Get projects action to retrieve a list of projects and associated boards.

For more information on Kanbanize, see the company website.

Create a Kanbanize connection

Create a connection from the connections page or from the action configuration panel when configuring the action. For information about creating connections and assigning permissions, see Manage connections.

Fill the following fields when creating a Kanbanize connection:

In this field

Select or enter the following

Connection name A name for your new connection.
API Key Your API key. Get your API key from the API tab of your My Account page in Kanbanize.
Subdomain Your company name as in the URL to your Kanbanize dashboard. For example, 'nintex4u' if the URL is https://nintex4u.kanbanize.com/

Kanbanize account requirements

  • The account you use to create a connection for Kanbanize is the account that has access to the Kanbanize actions.
  • When you create your Kanbanize account a subdomain is assigned to your account. You need this subdomain and your API key to create the connector.
  • Get your API key from the API tab of your My Account page in Kanbanize.