Not sure where you draw the line on what is a UX enhancement, and what is not (all these things affect my UX), so Iβll put here a list of new and old issues for you to pick and choose.
- View as other user for Admins β As itβs very hard for me to check what other users can see, and what not despite all the sharing improvements.
- Recovery from broken fields β Both in Reports but also Formulae just break when rewiring data in Fibery. Worse still, when looking at the result, which is either
Broken Field
or[Deleted field].[Deleted field]
, I cannot see what the previous configuration was. Iβd rather see the old field name in a formula, but have it marked as invalid so that I can re-connect it with the new wiring. - Headers and background colours for text tables β Right now, we can only
Mark cells
, which is not the same as having a sticky header. Also, colour coding is missing. - Improved printing and PDF export β The new markdown export is nice, but if I actually want to generate a PDF of a page (even a Document), there are still a number of problems like 1) embeds need to be loaded manually, 2) page breaks simply cutting through Views, 3) whiteboards not displaying well and 4) tables being cropped. I understand some of this stuff is tricky and probably better solved via Markdown export and a tool like Marked2. Still, I would at least hope that direct content like rich text and tables make their way onto PDFs.
- Allowing formulae in View filters β By not having this, we need to add a lot of helper data fields with Entities, even when a filter is just used somewhere.
- Conditions and automation triggers in automations β While we can chain automations and even can do conditional logic through property changes, it gets complex very quickly. If, instead in an automation I can trigger another automation and use if conditions to control flow, that would be much easier.
- Simple usage stats β For me as an Admin I can look at the Activity log to see whatβs happening, but I would like to get some basic usage stats for pages, such as: Total number of visits, Most visits by (above median), Most edits by
- Better timezone display in date fields β Itβs very unclear for people looking at DateTime fields, that the information is in their local time zone. If that could be displayed and an option can be given to always show UTC, that would be great.
- Board View to add sub-levels β One thing that JIRA does well is that in a Board of Epics and User Stories, it shows the User Stories under the Epics. Fibery has grouped levels in the Table view. It allows multiple Entities shown in a Board view, but when trying to display such a hierarchy, the entities get jumbled together. Enhancing the Board view with the ability to have levels would be very helpful
- Level grouping in tables messes with entity creation β If using a table and then grouping by a property, the
+ New Entity
option defaults to creating a new groping, not a new Entity. - Creating entities with name formula inline is cumbersome β When creating an entity wit ha name formula inline, the name gets wiped once the entity is created, rather than trying to match the formula structure and populating fields.
This is a list of some of the biggest UX challenges that I have on a daily basis.
Thanks!