Syntech Kanban Board 4.1 — What's New

We're releasing a major update to Syntech Kanban Board for Creatio Freedom UI. Version 4.1 focuses on three things: performance, team communication, and faster data entry — all without leaving the board.

Lazy Loading

Cards now load progressively as you scroll each column. No delays on board open, even with thousands of records in the pipeline. Server-side pagination runs independently per column, keeping memory usage low and the UI snappy.

Chat & Activity Feed on Cards

Each card now has a built-in activity feed — a full conversation thread tied directly to the record. It supports:

• @mentions to notify teammates
• file attachments right in the thread
• a chronological feed of all activity on the record

No need to open the full record page just to leave a comment or loop someone in.

Author Avatars

Responsible person avatars are now displayed directly on cards. At a glance, you can see who owns what — without reading a single field label.

Inline Field Editing

Click any field on a card to edit it in place. Supported types include text, dates, boolean toggles, and lookup fields with live search. No modals, no page navigation, no friction.

Updated UI

The component received a visual refresh: cleaner card layout, refined typography, polished icons, and tighter alignment with the Creatio Freedom UI design language.

Syntech Kanban Board is available at Marketplace https://marketplace.creatio.com/app/syntech-kanban-view-creatio

When working with external integrations and web services, it's common to store JSON responses in text fields within Creatio. The problem? Reading raw JSON in a plain text field is painful for end users.

I built a custom Angular component that renders any JSON string as an interactive, collapsible tree — directly inside a Freedom UI page.

What it does:
• Displays JSON as an expandable/collapsible tree
• Color-codes data types (strings, numbers, booleans, nulls)
• Expand all / Collapse all buttons
• Dark theme with encapsulated styles

The interesting part — Property binding
The trickiest part of the development was figuring out how passes properties to custom Angular elements. The key was using the @CrtInput decorator with propertyBindable: true, which tells the framework that the property accepts binding from the viewModel. Once that was in place, the component binds cleanly to any viewModel attribute using standard Freedom UI syntax.

This means you can feed it data from entity fields, external service responses, or values computed in handlers — all without touching the component itself.

If you're working with JSON data in Creatio and want to give your users a better experience, feel free to reach out via direct message.