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General and Licensing

General — Foundational questions about what Planningboard is, what it does, and how it fits into Siemens Polarion ALM. Licensing — Questions about obtaining, installing, and validating a Planningboard license.

Configuration and Customization

Configuration — Questions about widget parameters, Plan queries, and board-level configuration properties. Customization — Questions about card appearance, highlighting rules, and visual customization of the board.

Swimlanes and Capacity

Swimlanes — Questions about swimlane assignment types, swimlane sort order, filtering by Plan range, and related behavior. Capacity — Questions about capacity bars, capacity normalization, and known limitations in effort distribution. Multiple Assignees — Questions about how Planningboard handles work items with more than one assignee and current constraints.

Planning Frameworks

SAFe Integration — Questions about using Planningboard within a SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) planning context in Polarion.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting — Step-by-step guidance for diagnosing common problems: cards not appearing, capacity bars showing unexpected values, widget parameters not taking effect, and similar issues.
Topic map showing three question paths — Getting started leads to General and Licensing, Using the board leads to Configuration, Customization, Swimlanes, Capacity, Multi-Assignees, and SAFe, Something wrong leads to Troubleshooting
Browse the Guides section for step-by-step how-to instructions, or the Reference section for a complete list of widget parameters and configuration properties.
KB Articles
  • Swimlane Assignment Types
  • Planningboard Widget Parameters
Support TicketsSource Code
  • PlanningBoardDataService.java
  • PlanningBoardWidgetDependenciesProcessor.java
  • licenseReadonly.cy.ts
  • Config.java
  • PlanningBoardWidget.java
Last modified on July 9, 2026