You can convert boxes into real entities on Whiteboard, but till today relations were not created. Now if you have linked types relations will be created automatically. For example, here we create Epic and Features, when you open an Epic you see that all Features are linked to this Epic:
This feature makes Whiteboard finally useful for brainstorming, ideation and fast work creation. Now we will focus on polishing and bug fixing, since Whiteboard technically has beta quality at this moment.
Automatic Relations in Rich Edit on Entity Creation
Quite often you brainstorm ideas in text. For example, you have a list of User Stories inside a Feature. You can quickly create User Stories and they will be linked to current Feature automatically:
Fantastic with the Whiteboard improvements. I noticed that it even seems to pick up with the link the correct “direction” in the hierarchy of the relation, ie if I have a one-to-many, the arrow will have a direction going from the parent to the child.
To illustrate, I have a “Task/Subtask” in one app where a Task can have many Subtasks. So in this Whiteboard image below, I actually drew the line from my subtask to the Task. However, after I did that, the arrow appeared with the direction indicating the actual true relation - from the Task to the Subtask. So very smart!
Also @mdubakov quick question when you have a moment re: Rich Edit automatic relations. I am assuming this is not quite the “Highlights” feature you guys have been working on discussed in your twitter post here, among other places:
I think this is OK for now, but I noticed it requires the relation to be pre-existing. In my use, I would like to be able to have any entity mentioned, and then have the entire block in the Rich Text around it showing in the back reference. I think I’m restating something talked about many times, but just wanted to be sure. This feature is clearly moving down that road, but the implementation is not exactly the same as “Highlights” you’ve previously talked about for now.
Thanks guys, and thanks for another excellent release! Keep up the great work, exciting!
@Nathalie_Collins You can have this formula for sure, by subtraction we mean when you try to subtract dates. For example, EndDate - StartDate makes sense, but StartDate + EndDate - not to much
Michael & team, sorry for so many questions but I wanted to post here in the community again as this may be of interest to other users trying the Back-References feature:
I noticed that if I have a many-to-many relation set up, it appears the automatic reference does not populate, is that right?
