Deck: Board grouping

[Quin452]

Hi

Firstly, sorry if this has been addressed already, but I couldn't find any information about it (perhaps I am wording my searches wrong).

Basically, I was wondering if there was a way to group the boards in some way (like you can with Trello - these are called "Teams").
Essentially I have multiple projects on the go, constantly. Some are my own websites, some are the games I'm working on, and some are with clients, or multiple projects with the same client.

It would be handy for me to quickly switch to my "game development boards" rather than have to scroll to find them.

[juliushaertl]

Do you have some example how that is implemented at trello in terms of setting the project and organizing boards in those?

[Quin452]

Hi @juliushaertl. I would recommend having a look here, it probably gives the quickest and best explanation :-)

The Teams feature allows a lot more customisation, which I believe you've got implemented by integrating Circles (Board collaboration, etc.)

For a simple system for organisation (which is what I believe is missing/what I'd like), I'd recommend essentially adding a field to the Board, so it can be selected and filtered.
It could be free text, or an additional setting page where you can add groups to populate a dropdown/select box.

I'd honestly would offer to develop it myself, but I don't have the knowledge nor the time right now, and hoping it would be a quick addition.

[Dubidubiduu]

Hey @Quin452,

a simple and not so powerful workaround is to use the abc and generate prefixes, since it's ordered alphabetically. So g_ = games, w_ = websites or you order by client name...

[Quin452]

Hi @Dubidubiduu thanks for the suggestion.
The only problem I see with that is how can I group and view all the game boards, or website boards?

With Teams, and what I'm suggesting/would like, is the ability to group them together so I can view them all at once, rather than have to scroll through a huge list of boards, until I find "g_platformer" (because I have a lot of boards).

So instead of "All Boards -> List of all the boards", it would be All Boards, Client Boards, Game Boards, Website Boards, etc.

[krestyanikov]

Hello everyone.

I also really need this feature because the number of boards is very large. I'd suggest we see how it's done in MeisterTask

https://www.meistertask.com/videos/project_groups.mp4

Thanks!

[aproposnix]

Don't project groups already sort of exist? I mean you currently have two groups out of box "All Boards" and "archived boards". In this case, you would provide the user with a way of creating new ones.

[stefan-niedermann]

@aproposnix this is currently a flag:

archived: true / false

If grouping will be implemented, this mechanism will still have to work - each board in each group can be (or not be) archived. I doubt that this will be helpful for this feature.

[juliushaertl]

Yeah I see that this could be useful at some point so let's keep this open, however it is not on the near future roadmap.

[tomdereub]

I don't know if it would be useful or annoying for other people, but for me I would like also if boards in a same group could have the same parameters (number and name of columns, same labels, etc...). So that when I add a label it's added for all boards in the group.
For example, I would have a group "projects" with all projects I'm working on, and for all these projects I need the same columns and labels. For now, i have to add a new label manually on each board.

[stefan-niedermann]

@tomdereub you can clone an existing blard which will also clone the tags and lists (but not the card). So create a "template" board and clone it over and over again for your need.

It's an interesting idea to manage this stuff on a group level, but i fear it makes things even more complicated.

[juliushaertl]

Yeah, that might be a nice idea for later as well.

[Quin452]

@tomdereub you can clone an existing blard which will also clone the tags and lists (but not the card). So create a "template" board and clone it over and over again for your need.

It's an interesting idea to manage this stuff on a group level, but i fear it makes things even more complicated.

Can the template board be used across projects?