[SC] Project Boards 2.1.14

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Give customers a professional development experience​

Reduce repetitive support questions​

• Is this feature planned?
• Is this bug being fixed?
• When is the next version coming?
• Does this add-on support my XenForo or PHP version?
• What changed in the latest release?

Keep your community involved​

Manage everything directly inside XenForo​

Automate repetitive product maintenance​

Protect private development work​

Present every release properly​

Premium public roadmap​

• Professional public roadmap at /roadmap/.
• Six development stages:
  • Planned
  • In development
  • Testing
  • Fixed / ready
  • Released
  • On hold
• Responsive Kanban-style layout.
• Four development lanes fit cleanly across supported desktop widths.
• Horizontal navigation for additional stages.
• Native scrollbar and arrow navigation.
• Mobile lane snapping.
• Draggable roadmap cards for authorized managers.
• Move cards directly between development stages.
• Automatically saves the new status, position, completion state, and activity entry.
• Configurable maximum cards per lane.
• Accurate pre-limit project and card totals.
• Search, status, collection, and followed-project filters.
• Clean roadmap links reset filters to All statuses and All collections.
• Optional public announcement with scheduled start and expiration times.
• Empty-state designs for projects and stages without content.

Dedicated project portals​

• Overview
• Roadmap
• Changelog
• Known issues
• Suggestions
• Compatibility
• Dependencies
• Release milestones
• Readiness checklist
• Activity history
• Community engagement statistics

Project management​

• Create installed or future products manually.
• Link projects to installed XenForo add-ons.
• Separate installed and target version tracking.
• Installed version displayed directly from XenForo when available.
• Manual installed-version fallback.
• Target release version.
• Development progress percentage.
• Planned release date.
• Flexible release-date confidence:
  • Confirmed
  • Estimated
  • Quarterly/general
  • When ready
• Automatic delayed indicators for overdue projects.
• Assign owners or developers.
• Add private staff notes.
• Feature important projects.
• Control public visibility per project.
• Select project icons and accent colors.
• Add product and release URLs.
• Track installed, active, disabled, or removed states.

Roadmap cards​

• Create individual features, improvements, fixes, and other work items.
• Public descriptions.
• Private development notes.
• Priority levels.
• Individual progress tracking.
• Target versions.
• Assigned developers.
• Public or private visibility.
• Drag-and-drop stage movement.
• Independent progress for released projects.
• Detailed responsive card overlays.
• Voting and commenting.
• Staff editing and deletion.
• Complete card activity history.

Community voting​

• “I need this” voting.
• “Nice to have” voting.
• Configurable active-vote allowance per member.
• Transaction-safe vote handling.
• Vote totals displayed on roadmap items.
• Members can remove or change their votes.
• Voting can be disabled globally.
• Controlled through XenForo user-group permissions.

Comments and discussions​

• Public roadmap-card discussions.
• XenForo flood-control protection.
• Guest or member access through permissions.
• Staff notification entries for new comments.
• Direct alert links to the exact comment.
• Formatting-safe public comment display.

Community suggestions​

• Dedicated suggestion area for every project.
• Members can submit product and feature ideas.
• Optional guest suggestions through XenForo permissions.
• Suggestion workflow statuses.
• Staff responses.
• Approve, reject, reconsider, edit, or delete suggestions.
• Members can edit or delete their own pending suggestions.
• Convert approved suggestions into roadmap cards.
• Converted suggestions retain their roadmap-card relationship.
• Status changes never silently destroy linked cards, votes, comments, or history.
• Restored suggestions can reuse their original roadmap items.
• Private visibility for pending and rejected submissions.

Staff notification center​

• Dedicated notification bell on the roadmap.
• Unread alert counter.
• Animated bell when unread activity exists.
• Per-staff read state.
• Mark all alerts as read.
• Alerts for new suggestions.
• Alerts for roadmap comments.
• Direct links to the relevant project, suggestion, card, or comment.
• Reduced-motion accessibility support.

Changelog and releases​

• Complete project changelog.
• Structured release sections:
  • Added
  • Improved
  • Fixed
  • Removed
• Release titles and version numbers.
• Release dates.
• Download or product links.
• Compatibility notes.
• Breaking-change notices.
• Public or private releases.
• Latest-releases section on the main roadmap.
• Only the newest visible release from each released project is shown.
• Development or testing projects are excluded from Latest releases.
• Optional automatic changelog entries when synchronization detects an upgrade.

Release milestones​

• Create version milestones.
• Set milestone target dates.
• Track milestone completion.
• Supported milestone stages:
  • Planned
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Fixed / ready
  • Released
  • On hold
• Calculated completion percentages.
• Link work items to planned versions.

Release-readiness checklist​

• Built-in quality-control checklist.
• Eleven useful default readiness checks.
• Per-project checklist tracking.
• Staff-only checklist controls.
• Public release-readiness percentage.
• Globally enable or disable public readiness.
• Automatically seeds checklist defaults for existing and new projects.

Known-issue tracker​

• Publish confirmed product issues.
• Issue title and description.
• Severity levels.
• Affected versions.
• Target fix version.
• Workarounds.
• Resolution tracking.
• Five issue states.
• Public or private issue visibility.
• Update issue status without creating separate forum threads.

Compatibility and dependencies​

• XenForo compatibility matrix.
• PHP requirements.
• Product dependencies.
• Project-to-project relationships.
• Installed add-on requirements can be read automatically from addon.json.
• Automatically adds missing compatibility information.
• Preserves staff-customized compatibility entries.
• Safe add-on metadata path validation.
• Prevents path traversal and unsafe manifest access.

Installed add-on synchronization​

• Discover installed XenForo add-ons.
• Optional vendor-prefix filtering.
• Leave the prefix empty to discover all installed add-ons.
• Preview synchronization before making changes.
• Manual synchronization.
• Scheduled automatic synchronization.
• Synchronize:
  • Add-on title
  • Installed version
  • Active or disabled state
  • Installation state
  • XenForo requirements
  • PHP requirements
• Per-project automatic or manual synchronization mode.
• Manual projects remain completely untouched.
• Staff edits can claim automatically created projects.
• Customized projects are protected from synchronization cleanup.
• Projects outside a changed prefix are preserved.
• Removed installations are detected safely.
• Project Boards excludes itself from automatic discovery.
• Synchronization history and audit log.
• Cron failures are written to XenForo’s server error log.
• Disabled automatic synchronization exits before database work begins.

Project artwork and media​

• Native paperclip-style file upload controls.
• Upload a custom project icon.
• Upload a hero cover image.
• Upload multiple gallery images.
• Upload previews before saving.
• Remove or replace existing artwork.
• Uploaded icons appear in:
  • Project cards
  • Widgets
  • Project headers
  • Embedded cards
  • Roadmap details
  • Activity summaries
  • Release summaries
• Font Awesome icon fallback.
• Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, and supported WebP images.
• Maximum 5 MB per file.
• Up to 20 gallery images.
• Maximum 16 megapixels.
• Maximum 8,192 pixels per side.
• Icons are reduced to fit 512 pixels.
• Covers and gallery images are reduced to fit 2,400 pixels.
• Images are validated and re-encoded through XenForo’s image processor.
• Files are stored through XenForo’s configured data filesystem.
• Replaced uploads are safely cleaned up when no project references them.
• External image URLs remain untouched.
• URL scheme validation prevents unsafe media links.

Project collections​

• Organize products into custom collections.
• Collection name and description.
• Font Awesome collection icons.
• Custom collection colors.
• Public or private collections.
• Collection-filtered roadmap views.
• Create, edit, and delete collections.
• Default collections included for:
  • Community
  • Commerce
  • Moderation
  • Design
  • Experimental

Activity and insights​

• Global activity feed.
• Per-project activity timeline.
• Project views.
• Product-link clicks.
• Follower totals.
• Vote totals.
• Release activity.
• Roadmap-card changes.
• Staff and member actions.
• Private synchronization history.

Project following​

• Members can follow individual projects.
• Follow and unfollow without leaving the project.
• Filter the main roadmap to followed products.
• Following can be enabled or disabled globally.

Data export and integration​

• Full staff JSON export.
• Import projects and portal data.
• Transaction-safe imports.
• Validates records before writing.
• Validates imported URLs.
• Public JSON project feed.
• Embeddable roadmap view.
• Compact project-status cards for external pages.
• Public feed and embed can be enabled or disabled.
• Data-safe uninstall by default.
• Optional permanent data removal before uninstalling.

XenForo user-group permissions​

• View Project Boards
• Vote and comment on roadmap items
• Submit project suggestions
• Manage projects and roadmap items

Design and customization​

• Premium light glassmorphism interface.
• Native XenForo light and dark style support.
• Smooth scroll-reveal animations.
• Animated icons and progress effects.
• Ambient hero effects.
• Reduced-motion accessibility support.
• Responsive desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts.
• Per-project accent colors.
• Ten coordinated brand-gradient presets:
  • Ocean Glass
  • Emerald Tide
  • Sunset Coral
  • Solar Ember
  • Aurora
  • Sapphire Frost
  • Mint Circuit
  • Cherry Bloom
  • Neon Orchid
  • Midnight Luxe
• Public interface contains no forced vendor watermark.
• No powered-by footer.
• No forced promotional link.
• No hardcoded public-facing site name.

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License validation​

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Requirements​

• XenForo 2.3.0 or newer
• PHP 8.0 or newer
• JavaScript enabled for interactive roadmap features

Upgrade support​

Ideal for​

• XenForo add-on developers
• Theme and style designers
• Marketplace operators
• Software publishers
• Development communities
• Product-support forums
• Membership communities
• Agencies managing multiple XenForo products
• Site owners who want a professional public roadmap