Hi all, I have installed the component. It shows the “Board” menu item everywhere and it works as expected. But when I try in settings to search for specific categories in which to use the Kanban view, none of my categories seems to appear when searching. It seems to want to create new categories instead. Have I missed a setup config somewhere? [Screenshot 2026-01-25 at 3.24.00 PM]

I use that component and that is by design - those are simple list types and you have to enter the category-slug then click the ‘+’ to add it. it is so you can leave it blank to show everywhere and use @ for top level. Kanban board is a bit tricky to set up. Please refer to the component topic for configuration: [image] Kanban Board Theme component discourse2 Summary Kanban Board allows you to display and organise topics using a kanban board interface. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-kanban-theme open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component megaphone Kanban boards have now been shipped as a core Discourse plugin, see Try out the new Boards feature fo… [image] NateDhaliwal: I guess it would be better if the category setting used list_type: category so that one can add categories more easily instead of typing them in. it won’t work for that field in the component because admin needs to be able to leave blank or enter ‘@’.

Hi - I deleted the component and reinstalled. Categories are still not showing up. I am not a developer and do not know how to check for errors in the browser console. I tired resolving this first with Firefox then with Chrome and get the same negative result in both browsers.

I learned how to check for errors in the console. Unless I am not doing it right, there seems to be no red messages in that view.

@davidb-landseed This settings behaviour seems to be intentional. To make it work, you have to manually type in the name of the category into the setting. I guess it would be better if the category setting used list_type: category so that one can add categories more easily instead of typing them in.

Thanks for solving this for me. It seems to me this could be redesigned to still meet the goal but be more intuitive. The component guide could also specifically state that slugs must be manually entered. The drop-down arrow at the right of the control suggested to me that typing the name of a category would auto-complete to select it. Perhaps there could be a separate control to set it to all or top-level. If that control is not used then a drop down control could activate where you get auto-completes as you type category names.

List of categories not showing in "Display categories" control

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) January 25, 2026, 11:11pm 2

Try deleting the component and reinstalling. Does that help? Could you also check for any errors in the browser console? Thanks.

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List of categories not showing in "Display categories" control

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