Hey guys! My team has been moving along with the Hierarchical List View, and one big piece of feedback I have right now is I’d really like to be able to have the Cards/Boards functionality when displaying the entities of being able to determine size of the Entities. In other words, the options of:
Compact
Line
Default
Full
Or something equivalent.
In particularly we are really missing descriptions of fields that are part of “full” cards in board view. I am trying to emulate one of the best views of Target Process when the Parent Entity rolls up values from the children, such as total effort, etc, and this can be toggled open or closed.
I can do this set-up in Fibery with Hierarchical Lists, but we can’t see what those values are without the labels that you get in Full Cards in Boards. We have many formulas at times, so without these labels, you can’t have easy readability as to what number represents what value.
Great that we are on the same page here. I just hope the team is counting this as two votes for the feature! No way to know for sure, since - and I hesitate to bring it up - but we can’t just “vote” for each others’ suggestions. But perhaps the team will actually respond and confirm!
But to be honest I don’t see why we need the 2 similart but different concepts.
Those implicit type created by select/multi-select are crippled types:
not displayed when editing the types (need to click on 1 value, then 3 dots button then “edit type”)
values not searchable in the global search
cannot be reused in other Types: seems that in theory you can add other relationships as new fields, but when I tried I always had the error “Cannot create field. Invalid schema”
@mdubakov Why do we need those 2nd class citizens types? As @rothnic I tend to create groups of tags or partition as real Type, so they are visible and can have description fields (as @Chr1sG said you can do that on single-select/multi-select types, but not possible to add in a table view as you can do with a Lookup on a linked normal Entity).
The specific display properties of single-select/multi-select types could be merge in the regular types:
icon field: should be merge with Avatar extension, and when selecting Avatar we could chose between icon or upload a file
background color: we could also add the possibility for normal type to override the Type color at the entity level to mimic the same behavior.
Under the hood Select/Multi-select are usual Fibery Types. We added these things since many people expect to have them and Types is a hard concept to grasp. Also you often just need a selector without additional clutter (when you add it as a real Type you see it everywhere, in the schema, in views setup etc.).
I do agree that icons and backgrounds should be unified though, but it is harder to do for usual Types since it is somewhat weird when you set a background for a single entity. How explain it to people?
This is interesting! Would there be a possibility in the future for users to convert a simple select/multi select to a fully qualified entity? I know there is ongoing work on field type conversion so hoping this is also possible. This will allow users to start simple but expand things in the future.
Looks like that we can only have an hierarchy list on the same type if it’s on the first level. Is there a way to make it happen on the other levels too?
