A feature request board gives your visitors a place to submit ideas and vote on what matters most to them. You manage the backlog in a kanban view, move requests through columns as work progresses, and visitors are notified automatically when a feature they voted for ships. This article walks you through the setup.
1. Create the board
- In your Yaplet dashboard, go to Settings → Boards and click New Board.
- You'll be taken to the new board's settings page. Set the Name (internal, visible to your team only).
- Switch the Type dropdown to Feature Request and click Save.
2. Configure your columns
A manually-created board starts with a single default column called New. (Feature boards that were created during the initial widget setup wizard start with Under Review, Planned, Closed, and Released instead.) Open the board from Tickets → [board name], then use Add Column in the top-right to add columns. Each column header has a three-dot menu where you can rename, recolor, move left/right, toggle public/private, archive, or delete.
Suggested columns for a feature board:
- Under review — new submissions your team hasn't assessed yet.
- Planned — confirmed for a future release.
- In progress — actively being built.
- Shipped — feature has shipped.
- Won't do — acknowledged but out of scope (keep private if you don't want this visible on the roadmap).
For each column you can set a name, a color accent, and — crucially — the public / private toggle.
3. Set column visibility
Columns set to Public appear on your public roadmap and in the widget's roadmap tab, so visitors can see what stage their requests are at. Columns set to Private are team-only — useful for internal "Won't do" or "Needs investigation" stages you don't want to surface publicly.
Toggle visibility from each column's three-dot menu on the board view (Make Public / Make Private). The default column — where new submissions land — is locked to private; the visibility toggle is disabled for it so unreviewed submissions can never accidentally leak to the public roadmap.
4. Attach a submission form
Feature requests are submitted via a form. Forms are managed from Settings → Boards. On the row for your feature board, click Add Form — you'll be taken to the form builder with the new form already pre-linked to the board.
A newly-added form starts with just a welcome message and a thank-you message. Use the form builder to add the fields you want — typically:
- A short text field (required) for the idea's one-line summary.
- A long text field (optional) for detail and context.
You can add extra fields if needed (e.g. "Which plan are you on?" as single choice). Feature boards created via the initial widget setup wizard come with these two fields already configured.
5. Widget integration
The widget shows a Roadmap tab that displays this board's public columns, once two things are in place: the widget's roadmap is linked to this board, and the Roadmap menu is enabled. Open Widgets → [your widget], switch to the Features tab, link the board under Roadmap, and toggle the Roadmap menu on. (If the board was created automatically during the initial widget setup wizard, both are already wired up.)
Next steps
With the board set up, publish your public roadmap URL — see Publish a public roadmap. To understand boards in depth, see Boards explained.