Ahh Cheryl, are you talking about a BOARD view project (like with columns/kanban style sticky notes) - not the dashboard? So you created a board view project with sticky note tasks, and your boss wants to convert the project to a list view?
The answer is you can’t easily convert projects between board and list view, best thing is to just create a new project as list view and add the tasks to both projects using multi-home. So the list view project is for your boss to use, and boards are for you to use - but house the same tasks.
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