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### What is a Comala board?

A Comala board is a fast and effective way for you to brainstorm and visualize your content and ideas. 

A board can be embedded in

- an existing page by adding the board macro or
- a new page when creating a page using a Comala Boards Blueprint

Several board templates can be used to help you get started, such as the SWOT Analysis board.

![image](media://1e4701c5-d56a-4e57-8ad3-33ab455f65e4)

A board consists of columns into which you can add containers. Each container has these attributes:

- the container name
- the container description
- the labels defined for each container

The board layout and container attributes can be edited using the [board editor](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CBCSL/pages/641897581).

A range of practical board templates available when [adding a board](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CBCSL/pages/642486290) to a page can be viewed in [Boards Exchange](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CBCEL).

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