Install Mattermost Boards

Available on Entry, Enterprise, and Enterprise Advanced plans (not available on Professional) plans

Mattermost Boards is not enabled by default for new Mattermost Enterprise instances. If the Mattermost Boards plugin isn't enabled for your Mattermost workspace, self-hosted Enterprise customers can install this plugin by manually uploading the binary release file into the System Console and enabling it.

Mattermost Cloud Enterprise customers can request the Boards plugins be enabled by contacting their Mattermost Account Manager or by creating a support ticket request.

iNote

The Mattermost Boards plugin is currently in maintenance mode. While adoption of this plugin is still supported for Enterprise customers, we recommend system admins proceed at their own risk. Mattermost is no longer actively developing new features or future improvements for the Boards plugin, beyond addressing bug fixes reported by Enterprise customers and any necessary security patches.

In the future, Mattermost plans to deliver a core Boards feature as part of the platform. Migration from the Boards plugin to this upcoming feature will be required, which could potentially involve downtime or data migration complexities. Keep this in mind when deploying the Boards plugin in production environments.

Install the plugin

The following steps apply to customers in fully connected environments as well as Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments. A Mattermost system admin must perform the following steps in Mattermost.

1. Download the latest Mattermost Boards plugin binary file from the Mattermost Boards Releases page.
2. Log in to your Mattermost System Console as a system admin.
3. Go to Plugins > Plugin Management.
4. Select Upload Plugin to upload the Boards plugin binary file you downloaded from the Mattermost Releases page.

Mattermost configuration

1. Go to Plugins > Mattermost Boards.
2. Select Enable Plugin to enable the plugin.
3. You can optionally enable Enable Publicly-Shared Boards so that board editors can share boards with people outside of your Mattermost instance, who can view the board without needing a Mattermost account.
4. Select Save to save your changes.

Access

See the navigate boards documentation to learn how to create and access boards.

Work with boards

See the project and task management end user documentation to learn how to align, define, organize, track, and manage work across teams.