# Task Views

### Overview

By default a new project will come with 3 standard views:

1. **Board** - This is the default kanban view that includes a set of columns and allows for the easiest overview of a project
2. **Open Tasks** - This is a custom list view that has a set of filters applied to show available tasks
3. **Community Suggestions** - This is fixed view where your community can share suggestions, vote on them and then move top ideas to  `Backlog` or  `To Do` for claiming

![Three views come standard to help you get started](/files/QvopwPabLZocv5yfqoA1)

### Customising Views

You can customise a view by clicking the  `Settings`  icon next to its name. You can easily edit the settings of a view by clicking on a relevant option and making a selection from the available list displayed.

Here are the options you can customise for a view:

1. **Layout** - Choose between a kanban Board view or a vertical list view
2. **Filter** - Select specific options across a variety of task data and elements
3. **Sort** - Adjust the order of tasks to match your needs within board columns or the list
4. **Fields** - You can hide/display task fields to reduce noise or increase task data visibility
5. **Include Subtasks** \[List layout] - This will include subtasks as part of the list view

![This Board view doesn't show the Backlog column as its been filtered out](/files/Z82PKz3dLXupQYSlvvwS)

Once you've made a change you can view the board with the update and decide if you want to  `Discard changes`  or  `Save for everyone` so others can use it too.

![You can easily add the Backlog column by selecting it within the Status filter](/files/aOtaNVZDuTSp60g8IxnX)

The preset  `Open Tasks`  view that's provided helps your contributors easily surface available tasks that can be worked on.

![Using a list view and filtering only to relevant tasks helps increase productivity](/files/Yx05QykmjsV8mqKjU5ek)

Here's how the  `Open Tasks`  view has been customised to filter only the available tasks for you 

![Filter by Status, Assignees, along with Sorting by ascending Priority](/files/GEidC1WFiSFRlbhyXoRN)

### Adding a New View

Apart from editing existing views, you can also add multiple new views by clicking on  `Add View`  next to  `Community Suggestions` which will open a pop-up that you can customise as needed.

![Clicking Add view will let you create a new customised view for your contributors](/files/QvopwPabLZocv5yfqoA1)

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note**: Once a view has been created, you can click and drag on it to reorder the view so that it's in the preferred sequence 
{% endhint %}

Here's an example new view for pending task tracking with the following options:

* Filter for  `Status`  to only  `In Review`  and `Done`
* Sorting set to  `Bounty`  and  `Ascending`
* Fields to be displayed set to  `Name`, `Assignees`, `Reward` and `CTA`
* Subtasks are also included

![Easily filter to a list view of tasks that are pending review or payment only](/files/s0y07rbjGp1VrpvIky6W)


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