List View
planned
Tim Johnson
The ability to create a List View.
One use would be to graphically represent the hierarchical structuring of records, e.g. Tasks and Subtasks.
A feature of List View could include the ability to replace Field names with icons - even user-defined icons (by pasting in a PNG, etc.). Hovering over the icon would reveal the Field name and perhaps other controls - like in the case of Time Logging.
This would help to get as many fields as possible onto a single screen without needing to horizontal scroll. (Perhaps icons could be incorporated into other views as well - Kanban View, Grid View, Gantt View) ;)
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MGT Candice Gallion
We are moving from Asana to SmartSuite for reference. We primarily use the grid view. However, my team really misses the List and hierarchy that Asana has (albeit poorly organized due to their limited Project, team, section, task hierarchy.
I like that in SmartSuite, all data can be found. I don't like in Asana how you have to click into the comments to read the information which is one huge reason we are switching to SmartSuite.
I find my team is doing work arounds to try and get their list view in SmartSuite so a list view would help the team with daily and weekly planning. It would also help with meetings, and having a more consolidated view than grid view which my team says is similar to working with a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets tend to cause us to become very drained from the visual clutter. The only list view I can find is in the calendar options but it doesn't work very well with using it to get projects and tasks done.
Nate Montgomery @ SmartSuite
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Subtasks and Expandable Records
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Bradley Van Tyne
Being able to have subtasks to a checklist or being able to specify the type of record something is so that if it is related to project planning, it allows for the expanding and collapsing of related tasks and sub-tasks.
Also, being able to "copy" a checklist from a list of linked services so it doesn't affect the original service entry so you can have it linked to multiple projects or jobs.
Jon Darbyshire
planned
Nate Montgomery @ SmartSuite
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Tree View
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Atis Sedlenieks
Please add ability to manage Records using Tree style View. When managing Classifications and other
parent
and child
dependent records this is crucial. Three level grouping does not cover or replace Tree View. SmartSheet does that, Excel (Grouping) does that, please add this feature to SmartSuite.Jon Darbyshire
Great to hear your perspective, Atis Sedlenieks! I have a few more questions for you:
- Can you provide more details on how you envision the Tree View feature functioning within our platform?
- Could you explain how this feature would improve your workflow or productivity?
- Are there specific features from the Tree View in SmartSheet or Excel that you would like to see implemented in our platform?
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Atis Sedlenieks
Jon Darbyshire Hi,
- There could be specific Tree Elementfield, which when added would contain information about Records relation to Parent Record. When that field is populated, I could switch to Tree View and Records would be grouped by their Parent Row. If there are no Parent, then it's Root (top) item. Then with+-buttons on the left side I could navigate the Tree view and open, close Groups. Also I could easily add elements to group by pressing Tab on selected row, so it would populate that Parent cell with the link of Record above selection.
- For example, task and subtasks with subtasks etc. Now we have large classification system that we want to manage in SmartSuite, and there are lots of Parent-Children classes. You can look for example UNICLASS system, which have many classes with subclasses with subclasses with subclasses etc. For now, the navigation is very cumbersome as I have managed to group elements in two Layers (with some crazy formulas), but there are more than two layers. I could make tables and then link/populate them, but imagine, how many table there would be. Also, the linking UX now is very slow, I have 893 Records that has to be linked and it will only grow. (clicking on every row and manually searching for parent Record is a nightmare, especially when Records are chronological)
- I like in SmartSheet the ease of assigning element to a Group, with just simple Tab indent -> and outdent <-. The Excel have simple tree view navigation with +-.
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Gary Ford
Jon Darbyshire - Jon, attached are good examples of data that really needs some type of nesting feature to function well in a database. It would be amazing if smartsuite had a feature that would let you drill down into data like this so to choose a single item. There is an entire world out there that needs this type of data to setup cleanly in a relational data base somehow in an automated fashion. Please note MasterFormat, Uniformate, and OmniClass. These are all classifications systems. Getting these systems into a relational database automatically, and then being able to drill down and choose a single item is the problem.
Nate Montgomery @ SmartSuite
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Nested/sub records
Yocheved Zelishovsky
this will be a game changer for managing projects. id liek to have a nested/sub records similar to how monday.com has it
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Johan v S
Possible overlap with request "Nested/sub records"
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Johan v S
Maybe an overlap with request "List view"?
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Johan v S
This request may be very similar to request "Multi-select hierarchy tree needed"
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Johan v S
This may also be similar to the "List" view in Airtable where up to 3 levels can be displayed (but the Airtable is a complicated process)
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