# Highlight / filter tasks that are stuck in a column

**URL:** <https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/highlight-filter-tasks-that-are-stuck-in-a-column/781>\
**Category:** Open Discussions\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/highlight-filter-tasks-that-are-stuck-in-a-column/781 "2019-10-23T06:28:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![pretoriusjf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/pretoriusjf/32/193_2.png) [@pretoriusjf](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/pretoriusjf)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/highlight-filter-tasks-that-are-stuck-in-a-column/781/1 "2019-10-23T06:28:17Z")

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I’m not sure if this feature maybe exists yet and I haven’t found it, or whether maybe this should be a new feature request.

I find myself managing a process that has many different individuals involved in helping push a ticket across the board, thus there are many opportunities for a ticket to become stuck in one column.

As a user managing a complex process, I want the ability to highlight tasks that have been stuck in the same column for more than X amount of time, so that I can focus on finding out why those are stuck and how to unstick them.  
- Since I have a different expectation of each column about what “stuck” means, I need to be able to set up a different time “X” for each column. I don’t care how the highlighting happens, a notification by email is fine, using colour or filters or tags are fine too.

Am I asking for a new feature, or am I just missing some existing functionality?

[edit] added detail to user story as I realized it didn’t quite capture what I need to do.

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**Author:** ![rafaelcamargo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/rafaelcamargo/32/279_2.png) [@rafaelcamargo](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/rafaelcamargo)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/highlight-filter-tasks-that-are-stuck-in-a-column/781/2 "2019-10-25T01:25:52Z")

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You can use the “moved” filter.

`moved:"<-2 days"` you filter taks that were moved last before (`<`) 2 days ago (`-2 days`)

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**Author:** ![rafaelcamargo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/rafaelcamargo/32/279_2.png) [@rafaelcamargo](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/rafaelcamargo)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/highlight-filter-tasks-that-are-stuck-in-a-column/781/3 "2019-10-25T01:26:25Z")

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you can use hours, minutes, days, weeks…

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**Author:** ![pretoriusjf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/pretoriusjf/32/193_2.png) [@pretoriusjf](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/pretoriusjf)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/highlight-filter-tasks-that-are-stuck-in-a-column/781/4 "2019-10-25T04:22:15Z")

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> [@rafaelcamargo](#):
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> moved:“\<-2 days”

Thank you! That’s great.