The left navigation colum currently is limited to showing all spaces, or to hide them under ‘hidden spaces’.
This already is a UX limitation, since we often don’t want to hide it, but simply organize the structure of spaces better. Folders for spaces would be an outcome.
Ideally, but that may be more complex (?) we could allow spaces to be part of spaces (creating sub-spaces). This would be nice for better permissions inheritance also.
I’m managing a large number of Fibery spaces (currently around 50) and it’s becoming difficult to find and organize them. The lack of folders and search functionality in the left navigation column creates time-consuming challenges:
Constant Expansion/Collapse: Needing to manually manage the open/closed state of spaces is inefficient.
Scrolling Overload: Spending excessive time locating the correct space.
Permission Complexity: Difficulty providing seamless access and permissions for teams across multiple spaces.
Background:
I initially used a workaround of combining multiple databases into a single space, primarily for simplified permission management. I’m eagerly awaiting the “Permission Groups” feature to streamline this further.
Proposed Solutions:
Folders for Spaces: Introduce folders to group and organize spaces, allowing for easier navigation and management.
Space Search: A search field to quickly locate specific spaces would be a huge time-saver.
Collapse all spaces button This would be incredibly helpful, or an option ‘collapse other spaces when expanding a space’
Pin Spaces to the top Because we use a few spaces most of the time
Additional Thoughts:
I’ve explored using the “Hidden for me” folder but the limitations on folder hierarchy and team-based permission control make it less ideal.
FYI, there are ca 0.05% of workspaces that have 50+ spaces, so a number of the challenges you are facing are not likely to be experienced by many other users.
You might want to consider voting for specific feature requests, e.g.
and maybe others I haven’t found with a quick search
As spaces in the left menu increase it becomes increasingly difficult to find the space you are looking for. It will be very helpful if separator or divider lines could be manually inserted to group the related spaces.
