Add Documents and Views to Root of Smart Folder

[B_Sp]

Guys (@rothnic too!), just to add some additional related requests:

[APPROVED] Add "Description" area to apps created from Scratch

Hi, When creating an app from Scratch, I’d like to be able to add the third area called “description,” next to “Types” and “Access” that I’m seeing in the pre-loaded apps that are in the App Store. Unless this is something I’m missing, could you add this capability? It would be very useful to have a general overview type area with each app that explains its use to users. Thanks guys!

Ability for admins to make notes when building Apps, or App Activity stream

Hey guys, I continue to have a need to be able to track what I’m doing as I work in my Apps as an admin and build them out. What I have to do now is write notes separately elsewhere, as a sort of “changelog” to myself of what I changed, such as: Renamed a Type, and why I did that adjusted relations, what is the reason some notes to users on how to use the App. In theory I can create a Doc that is in the App, but this is a workaround and doesn’t really “sit” at the App-level. I’d love to be…

I think we are all looking for the ability to build out information around both Apps - the reason for their creation, their history, etc. - and Types.

@rothnic

(e.g., I should be able to click on the Type name on the entity view)

This is a great point. Often my users want to click the name of an Entity’s Type, say “Ad Partners” (we’re using something similar), and see simply a list of them. This is a very intuitive behavior of apps like Fibery

Right now though, if you want to see a list of ALL Entities in a type, you have to rely on the default creation of a table. And if you move the Type to another app, that table doesn’t follow, so you then lose your “every entity in the Type” default.

And I know this is a huge topic, but just wanted to mention again that Table view is really overdue for some improvements. You guys also talk a lot about Hierarchical View in this thread, and one huge thing I am missing from it is the ability to actually enter data like in a Table. I have found this to be so true @Chr1sG:

@Chr1sG

Smart folders are virtually the same as hierarchical lists,

I think we need a lot more functionality around these to get them more useful, such as the way hierarchies work in either Wrike or TargetProcess that I documented here:

@B_Sp

What I’m suggesting here is allow one of the areas in the App Home area, perhaps a new one called "App Dashboard, where you could display an existing hierarchy with much more detail from the one we have no in the left menu:

I think a great implementation would be similar to what we see in Wrike or TargetProcess - which perhaps you actually developed!, haha. For the benefit of the community here’s what they look like:

Wrike:

TargetProcess:

And again, for the benefit of the community as I don’t need to tell you guys this , TargetProcess implementation is even more relevant as you get a hierarchy with actual different columns in each level. That is what I’m hoping for here in Fibery because of the Type customization, since the fields won’t be the same as you move down the hierarchy, whereas in Wrike, which is a more limited system where entities of Tasks and Projects are basically the same, the columns filter down the entire hierarchy. Still, the collaspable/expandable view in Wrike is a basic element of a good hierarchy, so wanted to show that one.

Hoping to get some movement on all of this soon, thanks!