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Options for Autotask Ticket Boards

Reference for the card fields, metrics, swimlanes and other options specific to Autotask ticket boards.

Legacy interface

This is a reference for the options unique to this type of board. For a description of options common to all types of boards, see Fields for Kanban Boards.

General

Card fields

  • Account
  • Due date
  • Ticket age
  • Project name
  • Category
  • Queue
  • Contract
  • Contact
  • Checklist items
  • Service call type: Show detailed service call information on the card if available (Details), or on a tooltip (Compact)

Metrics

  • Ticket age
  • Hours sum: shows sum of both estimated and actual logged hours
  • Hours average: shows average of both estimated and actually logged hours

Swimlanes

The available fields for swimlanes are:

  • Account
  • Resource
  • Primary Resource
  • Priority
  • Queue
  • Project
  • Category
  • UDF fields of type string

Ranking

When using automatic ranking, you can choose to rank by these fields:

  • Priority
  • Due Date
  • Earliest Service Call
  • Actual Hours
  • Estimated Hours
  • Next SLA Due
  • Last Note Date
  • Last Time Entry Date
  • Age
  • Time in Status

Filters

The fields you can filter by are:

  • Resources: the assigned resource of a ticket, either primary or secondary.
  • Show unassigned tickets: control if tickets with no assigned resources will appear on the board when the resource filter is used. If you want to show tickets from a select set of technicians, and also show unassigned tickets, then select this option.
  • Accounts
  • Parent Accounts
  • Projects
  • Queues
  • Categories
  • Priorities
  • Sources
  • Types
  • Issue types
  • Sub issue types
  • Due date
  • SLA event due

Columns

In addition to options common to all board types, these options are available:

  • Time entries & entry warning: Shows how long ago was the last time entry, marking it in red if the time exceeds the warning threshold.
  • Last note & note warning: Shows how long ago was the last note (non-time entry), marking it in red if the time exceeds the warning threshold.
  • SLA time & warning: Shows how long until the current SLA stage is due, marking it in orange if the time is less than the warning threshold.
  • Due date: controls if the ticket due date is shown on cards
  • Due warning: marks the due date in orange if it's within the time of the warning threshold
  • Hours: controls if actual and budget hours information is displayed on cards
  • Budget warning: For cards with both actual hours and budget hours, and exceeding the threshold (but less than 100% used), warning message is shown.
  • Start timer on drag: when a ticket is dragged into this column, start the timer
  • Open time entry on drag: when a ticket is dragged into this column, open the time entry dialog

Updated September 23, 2026