You guys have a World Class Board view, a real differentiator and one of my favorite features in Fibery.
I was wondering if you have thought about enhancing Boards even further with the ability to add in some Field Visibility at the intersection of Rows and Columns?
One example is a Team Task Board.
I have a set up, which may be common, of the Tasks organized at the top by State, and in the lanes by User. With the new Fields Visible on Columns and Rows in boards, I can now do something where I can see the total Tasks “In Progress,” for example.
However, in using this type of set-up, my team has seen that it would be very useful to have a view on the Rows of how many Tasks per row
point about tallying sub columns, so we can see how many tasks are on a particular person in the swim lanes. Otherwise we can’t easily see how many Tasks each User has in each State, a very useful piece of information.
Hi!
That is smth we wanted to develop together with custom units on the board view. But this feature is more complicated than it looks at the first glance, so it is in the Icebox now and we are collecting requests and checking interest from users.
So, got your 2 votes guys, thanks!
@Chr1sG With the recent discussion around “helper databases” is there any way they could be used to achieve something like this, at the very least as fields on the rows in a board?
With board views having the ability to have “card” entities that live at the intersection of “column” and “row” entities, is there really no way to contextually calculate/summarize data from those cards somewhere on the board?
The main challenge with addressing this request is the problem alluded to here
Basically, what gets shown on a view is determined from a query of the backend, based on the (front end) view settings: “Show me Tasks completed last month that were assigned to me, and group them by Product Area”.
The formula service in Fibery works solely in the backend - it knows nothing about what views might or might not exist.
To inplement this request would require a front end formula service that calculates based on the result of querying according to the view settings.
We currently do some basic calculations in table view (Count, Sum, Max, etc.) for numeric columns, so perhaps there is something analogous possible for board view, but it’s not in scope for the foreseeable future.
The ability to easily display data in context to other data is the main reason we use Fibery, so as great as it usually is at doing that, it makes the gaps like this (which most tools with board/kanban views can do) even more glaring!
I’m glad this topic is still getting some support @interr0bangr, my team doesn’t even use boards much (we used to) and this is one of the reasons. I have used one of my votes here at this point to - had not been able to before even though I created this request, but I freed one up and moved it over!
