The item panel: detail, comments and files

Click a row (or press Cmd/Ctrl+Enter on a focused one) to open its detail panel — a slide-over with an Updates tab for comments and a Details tab for every field.

deckgauge · Item panel

Ada L.

2h ago

Comment: Repro attached below — happens only on Safari. 📎 screenshot.png

R. Patel

40m ago

On it — will have a fix up today.

Updates tab: a comment thread with an image attachment.

What it does, and where the data comes from

The Details tab shows the row's fields; the Updates tab shows its comment thread. Reopening the panel resets both to the freshly opened item — edits to one item never bleed into the next you open.

Editable vs synced fields

On the Details tab: Name, Description, Start Date, End Date, Duration, and every custom column are yours to edit directly. Owner is editable too — pick from existing board owners or type a new one; if it was overridden away from the synced assignee, a "Reset to Assignee" control puts it back. Any edit to a field a connected source also supplies is recorded as a manual edit, and can be undone individually — see Manual edits below. Assignee is read-only — it's the person your connected source assigned the issue to. Status here uses a fixed five-value list (Not Started, In Progress, At Risk, Blocked, Done) rather than this board's own custom status list — see Board statuses for where that distinction matters. Created/Updated timestamps at the bottom are read-only.

Manual edits, and reverting to the synced value

Editing a field that a connected source also supplies does not just change the value — it takes that one field out of sync's control. Deckgauge calls this a manual edit, and it applies per field, not per row: overriding a row's Name leaves its Status, Owner, Description and Due date still tracking the source.

While a row has at least one manual edit, the Details tab shows a Manual edits block listing each one as Field — synced value was X, with a ↺ Revert control beside it. With more than one, a ↺ Revert all control appears in the block's header. Reverting re-links the field to its source, so the next sync writes the source's current value over your edit.

Field	Sources that can supply it
Name	Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub
Status	Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub
Owner	Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub
Description	Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub
Due date	Jira, Azure DevOps — not GitHub (a GitHub issue carries no due date of its own; only its milestone does)

Revert gives you the source's value, not your previous oneDeckgauge snapshots what a field held immediately before your first edit to it, and never overwrites that snapshot on subsequent edits. So editing a field three times and then reverting returns you to what the source last supplied — not to your second edit. The "synced value was …" text in the block is that snapshot; a field the source had left blank reads empty.

A manual edit outranks the board's synced-fields listEach source has a per-board allow-list of fields sync may write (see Mapping source statuses and the board's Sources tab). A manual edit wins over that list either way: a field you have overridden is not written even if the allow-list includes it, because an override is an explicit instruction from a person and the allow-list is board-level configuration. Custom columns work the same way.

Comments

The comment editor is rich text — bold, italic, underline, bulleted and numbered lists, text color, and @-mentions of board members. Post with the button or Cmd/Ctrl+Enter. Once posted, a comment can be edited, deleted, or pinned to the top of the thread.

File attachments

Attach images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WebP, up to 10 MB each) from the editor's upload button; they upload as you compose and are attached automatically when you post the comment. An oversized or unsupported file is rejected with an inline message instead of the comment.

If it looks wrong

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Assignee field won't accept edits	It's a read-only mirror of the synced source	Edit Owner instead, or fix the assignment at the source
Post button stays disabled	An image is still uploading, or the comment is empty	Wait for the upload to finish before posting
Image upload fails	File is over 10 MB or not PNG/JPEG/GIF/WebP	Resize or convert it and try again
A synced field stopped updating from the source	It carries a manual edit, which outranks sync	Open the row's Manual edits block and ↺ Revert that field
Due date never populates on a GitHub row	GitHub issues have no due date — only milestones do	Expected; use Jira or Azure DevOps for a synced due date
Reverting returned an unexpected value	The snapshot is the value from before your first edit, not your last	Expected — re-sync to pull the source's current value
Status options don't match this board's custom statuses	This field uses a fixed 5-value list, separate from Manage Statuses	Change status from the row's own status pill on the board grid instead

System fields vs the columns you add — the same Owner/Assignee split, from the grid's point of view.
Board statuses and what they mean — the custom status list this panel's Status field doesn't use.
Board templates — the Onboard control that appears here on recruitment boards.

Last updated 27 August 2026