[PLANNED] Row grouping and total row in table view

I was wondering if there had been any advances made on this request. It continues to be a pain point for me.

I know that vizydrop supports this in some ways, but I don’t think this is a feature that is limited to reporting only. There are numerous situations where I filter tables and use counts/sums/etc. to just check for data inconsistencies/errors and being able to actually change the data in the table view is really helpful (something that you can’t do in reports/visualizations).

Apologies for bumping this up.

Hi!
No, there were no updates.
Vizydrop has Tables as well and there it works like a charm, so that is a nice workaround.

We still can’t give any eta for this feature, unfortunately - but noted all the requests :muscle:

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Perhaps I have misunderstood the need, but is it not possible to achieve something close by creating a formula field in the type that is being grouped by, and setting the field as visible for the row grouping.

Obviously, it doesn’t take into account any filters applied to the board view, but if you regularly used a specific filter criterion, you could create a formula to sum based on this filter.

Apologies, I wasn’t clear in my new post, I am specifically looking at having grouping and aggregation in the table view rather than the board view, similar to what monday.com offers:

The above implementation has a major disadvantage in that grouping rows has to be done manually or by setting up individual automation rules. As you pointed out, it is already possible to define row groupings in board view, so I was hoping that could be made available in the table view (with ability to expand collapse the row groups instead of just hiding them, which I think would be a good thing for the board view too).

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This is good feedback, I support these ideas! But in general I think it is best to open a new topic for only tangentially related feature requests (in this case it is about table view, but otherwise not really related to original topic).

Totally agree :slight_smile: Apologies for that. I have created a new topic and moved the content over.

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Row grouping in tables like Clickup has is super helpful, the data is better structured as a table many times and grouping them makes it much easier to read. Is there any work in progress for such feature?

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Hi, Jean!
We had done almost nothing to our Table View, telling the truth. And not sure this feature would appear soon.
We have two workarounds for now (workarounds only, the native solution is still in the backlog)

  1. User Tables in Charts - they have such a possibility (yep, I even mentioned that already, sorry for pointing here again)

  2. Since last year we’ve added one more unique View - Hierarchical List. It also helps to group items nicely

Thanks for rising the question again - noted :slight_smile:

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The problem with any feature inside Charts is the refresh…for something used frequently is annoying as you’re waiting 2-3 seconds until it loads… I understand technically that data must be updated, but as a user experience is not great. Maybe you’ll find a way technically to update the DB used for charts instantly when items included in the DB are updated/added/removed so we don’t have to wait for a refresh each time.

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Would also really like to see this supported directly in the table view.

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Yep I’d love this feature too. Tables are very convenient to quickly fill properties (in this sense they’re better than lists, esp. If group calculations are implemented) , while grouping allows for similar functionality as a boards while having IMO better info density

Notion, Coda, ClickUp, Monday, Height all have it

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Giving my vote, because it is the only thing missing for me to start using Fibery as a personal planner. (GTD-style)

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Really would love this feature. Asana also has it.

Especially if this can be integrated within an entity as a view:

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grouping is essential to having a great overview. funny how fast you run into workflow problems using a new tool when coming from another.

currently just trying to get a simple task - sub-task list to show subtasks grouped together with their parent task. yes - i can view them when clicking on a task - but this is not user friendly …

will table view updates come any time soon?

(as my tasks dont have a hirachy other than having another task as a parent task its not possible to have it in the list view where i would love to have this … or am i missing something?)

Self relations are possible in list view. Enable with the circular arrow:

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amazing!!! thanks so much. this is at least in list view a solution. next up table view! :slight_smile:

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Is this row grouping already part of Grid view? I thought it would be released together with grid view.

Also @Chr1sG I cannot find the circular arrow button in list view


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‘Row grouping’ in the case of grid view means choosing a db to be used for grouping as the top level, and then choosing the next level for the items to be grouped.
In your image, the Todos will be ‘grouped by Project’

The circular arrow will be present (for the top level db only) if there is a suitable (i.e. one-to-many) self-relation.

The self-relation doesn’t make sense for us. I understand that this might work if you have sub tasks for instance.

In our case we want groupings per field. For instance a field “priority”. Each priority would be a group, and within that would be the tasks of that priority. Will this be possible?

But lets say level based is fine for us (in the case of projects and tasks), the new grid view is still not grouped. Yes it’s nested similar to list view, but not grouped visually the same way as the screenshot from topic starter. So I’m not too sure how grid view is an improvement in this sense. It’s basically a compacter version of tables with levels integrated similar to a list view.

Sorry, what doesn’t make sense?
If you have a (one-to-many) self-relation for the top level db, then you can show items from the same db nested under each other, by clicking the circular arrow.
Or did you mean that it’s not something you would utilise?

Grouping by a field value is not currently possible, no. Sorry.
Maybe my previous reply was misleading - we haven’t yet implemented this feature (in Table view or Grid view).
Grid view is still under development, so it is likely that improvements will come (including the features mentioned in this topic, at some point) but we thought it was worth releasing it as an experimental feature in the meantime.

What are the elements/functions that are visible/available in the screenshot from the first post that you think are missing? I mean, there are obviously some stylistic differences, but there is a lot in common:

  • a group can be expanded collapsed
  • the fields for items in a group are aligned in columns
  • there is the ability to add new items to a group


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