Today’s folders function similar to the space names in the left sidebar. But while I find that the folders are great for organizing the information, “what in the sidebar is related to each other?” they add too many clicks.
The folders are not just a one-time click problem though, in order to see the page we need, we must first unfurl all the nested location data. For example: Folder → Space → View and then, the whole tree remains open in the sidebar until you manually toggle one level closed, or all levels.
This request is about considering the UX. If we could toggle on dashboard views for folders, we could turn the folder itself into a “homepage” of sorts for sections in Fibery.
When tinkering further, I actually think a short term win is allowing us to nest smart folders under a dashboard view. But that doesn’t solve our ability to have spaces be children with a dashboard on top…
Wanted to add a concrete use case here:
I have a newsfeed view where every user’s stand up appears in chronological order.
I also have a smart folder on the left sidebar that shows the last three days of stand ups for the current user.
It’s intuitive to have the News Feed be the “parent” or top level page in the sidebar, and then have the recent standups nested under it
As of today, I need to have the News Feed as a page, then name a smart folder which appears under the news feed and contains the recent standups.
I’ve had some users specifically ask for this behavior as well, but in our case it would be a department dashboard. A couple departments asked me if they could click on the department name (the Space name in our hierarchy) to quickly see certain things (like a Home for the department) without needing to go into more specific views for certain tasks. It was both an “intuitiveness” issue since that’s the behavior a few of them expected as well as a “less clicks” issue since teams wouldn’t have to go into the more detailed views as often.
