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Select and Move Work Items on the Canvas

Drag tasks between sprints, drag a marquee to select several at once, and Shift+click to add tasks to your selection.

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Drag tasks between sprints, drag a marquee to select several at once, and Shift+click to add tasks to your selection.

Selecting tasks

  • Click a task once to select it, replacing whatever was previously selected.
  • Shift+click another task to add it to your current selection.
  • Click and drag on empty canvas space (not on a card) to draw a marquee box — every task inside it is selected when you release.

A marquee selection box being dragged across several task cards on the canvas
Drag-selecting multiple tasks with a marquee box

Moving tasks between sprints

Drag a selected task (or a group of selected tasks) onto a different sprint column to move it there. Dropping it re-parents the task into whichever sprint's area it lands in.

What to do about it

Build a selection with Shift+click or a marquee before dragging if you want to move several tasks together in one action, rather than dragging them one at a time. There's currently no Ctrl/Cmd+click shortcut for selection — Shift+click is the only way to add a task to an existing selection.