Workfront Boards Limitations (Tags, Checklists, Unselected column) - what to do?

@adamcnote just checking in! Were you able to get this resolved? If one of the replies above helped—whether it completely solved the issue or simply pointed you in the right direction—marking it as accepted can make it much easier for others with the same question to find a solution. And if you found a different way to fix it, sharing your approach would be a great contribution to the community. Your follow-up not only helps close the loop but also ensures others benefit from your experience. Thanks so much for being part of the conversation!

Adam, as for the boards/checklist items, I had the same experience with boards and checklist items. I had a dynamic board, and I needed to connect another project to it. Some cards on the board had checklist items. As soon as I connected the additional project, all checklist items disappeared.

I did put in a support ticket and after a couple escalations, I was informed this is expected behavior. I also got some additional information from the Boards project manager. 

There are two options for creating checklist items on a board: 1) Checklist items 2) Subtasks

• Both behave in a similar fashion inside of Boards, but subtasks are added to the official task record and if a filter on a board is changed, these subtasks would not disappear. I would recommend they leverages subtasks rather than checklist items if they can. I know some customers can’t because of how their projects are run. 
• Checklist items are more informal and on a dynamic board. When a checklist item is created, it is not added to the official task record. As a result, the checklist items is wiped out if a user were to update the query filter rule for what records the user wants pulled into a Board. 

Since it was expected behavior there are no plans for this to change. I did put an idea on here to change this behavior. Click here Dynamic Boards and Checklist Items - Adobe Experience League Community - 730276 if you want to vote on it or add anything to it.

AdamCnote,

1.  I do not/haven't experienced this issue in our Boards set up.  I have, however, set up sort filters that disappear or not stay synced and I have to reset them up.  This happens a few times a week for me.

2. Unselect are for items you're not considering or not going to be part of any current or future iteration.  As example, we've had a few requests come in we started work and business said wait we're putting that on Hold, we mark the card On Hold, it moves to Unselect.  We are no longer looking at it in our backlog, which is the New column, and we don't have a timeframe when we'll bring it back, but its still visible until such time as we kill or cancel it.

3.  Nothing we can do yet for the Board reporting. I was part of the beta group for Boards and there will be enhanced reporting updates coming in 2025 (no ETA) that allows things like tags to be a part of the reporting fields.  I too want to report using these.