A board table that opens read-only is almost always an access level, not a bug. Cells, the row gutter, and the fill handle are all gated by what you can do on that board. The checks below go from most to least likely.
Check your access level on the board
Table view splits into three levels:
- View: browse, open the file drawer, and copy with
Cmd+C. No cell editors, no row gutter, no fill handle. - Edit: everything above, plus editing cells, pasting with
Cmd+V, drag-fill, and reordering rows. - Manage: everything above, plus adding, renaming, and deleting properties from the column headers.
If cells will not open but you can copy from them, you have view access. Ask a workspace manager to raise it to edit.
Copy is deliberately allowed one level below paste: reading values you can already see on screen is not a change, so it does not need edit rights.
Check whether you are on a published board
A board opened through a public link is read-only for visitors, and it always renders as kanban with no view picker. If you reached the board from a link someone sent you rather than from your own workspace, that is what you are looking at.
Check that the board has properties
A table with only the File column means the board has no properties yet. There is nothing to edit until one exists.
With manage access, click the + at the end of the header row to add a property. In kanban, a board with no properties offers a Create a Status property button that sets one up and groups by it in one step.
The header will not open
Clicking a column header opens the property editor only with manage access. Below that, the header is read-only while the rest of the table still works normally.
A cell edit reverts a second after you make it
That is the optimistic update rolling back after the server refused the change. Two common causes:
- Your access on the board changed while you had it open, for example a manager lowered it. Reload the page to pick up the new level.
- The property or one of its options was deleted by someone else while you were editing.
Pasted values did not apply
Pasting reports how many cells applied and how many were skipped. A skipped cell means the value did not match: a status or tag label that does not exist on that property, a person who is not a board member, a date that is not YYYY-MM-DD, or a column type that cannot hold what you pasted. Brault never creates options from a paste. Full rules are in copy and paste between a board table and Excel or Google Sheets.
If none of this worked
Contact us from the support form and include the board name, the property column you were trying to edit, and your access level on the board if you know it. That is enough for us to trace it.