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Redesign the task view
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Luesak Luesukprasert
It would be nice if we can customize the task view or if you can redesign the task view. I've made a mockup for you.
As it is... it places too much emphasis on the description for me. I used mostly subtasks and checklists which for repeated workflows are far more useful that description. But right now the description is taking so much space that I would have to scroll down all the way to get the meat of the work.
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Ivan Villa
Loving the feedback everyone! We created this quick video to give a bit more details on the sections. We know there is only so much one can take from a screenshot.
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Lukas Moser
cant stress this enough: please put custom fields into customizable groups/tabs/rectangles
Carson
Lukas Moser: Seconded!
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Jordan-Ashley Cooper
Lukas Moser: Yes!
Reece Atkinson
Ivan Villa: When can we expect this? LevelUp or next year?
Stephanie
Loved watching the video and excited for the updates! Is there an estimated time frame for when it will be released?
Ivan Villa
Merged in a post:
Make Task View more responsive
Nick Kadutskyi
When task is opened and I reduce ClickUp window to half of my screen it looks awful.
Here is a screencast: https://cln.sh/pIfLgNetvwg5gWcfdv9A
Ivan Villa
Merged in a post:
Task view
Rick Stotts
Am running into an issue where leadership wants to see something like a powerpoint slide for each task/project and the current task layout in not cutting it. Would like ability to arrange information including pinned photo to see data on one page. A view would be nice or ability to arrange data inside the task or at least ability to print data so it could easily be thrown onto a powerpoint slide
Ivan Villa
Loving the feedback everyone! We created this quick video to give a bit more details on the sections. We know there is only so much one can take from a screenshot.
Michael Powers
I can't seem to get the link to work Ivan Villa UPDATE: NVMD used a different browser. Why would we need both the subtask sidebar and subtask list in the task?
Hadhemi Gafsi
Ivan Villa: Thank you so much! This gives a good overview and I also like the sidebar view.
What I still don’t understand is, why custom field is separate from the default tasks information field's (status, assignee, date, tags etc). It would be great to put them also above the description together with the task information so that you have all the contexts about a task.
Task description make more sense above subtasks.
Also it seems like you need to click a lot before you can expand and add informations.
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Brendan Jones
Ivan Villa: thanks for this, definitely gives a clearer idea. Couple of thoughts in addition to the comments I already made earlier today:
- I like the collapsible content, but I personally wouldn't want to be clicking lots to expand/collapse content. I prefer to have it available (expanded) already. You could have a couple of user-selectable default initial display options here to suit personal preferences/workflows, e.g. 1. Expand all content, 2. Expand only selected content (and give a checkbox list to select from) 3. Collapse all content.
- I didn't realise the vertical list of icons to the left of the comments field belonged to that right sidebar, I assumed they were something to do with the middle column. Consider moving the icons to the other side of the vertical divider line, or some other solution?
- Would sub-subtasks be viewable in the subtask column, or will it only be one layer deep? Would be awesome to have a nested tree structure there. I'd think the sub-subtasks would be collapsed by default, but you could expand them to dive down into the tree structure without actually having to click into the subtask first.
- I said the same in my earlier comment but I'll reiterate because your video confirmed my thoughts: I think it'd make sense to put task relationships below subtasks in that left sidebar. That way all info related to other tasks is in the same place, and you're using precious screen real estate that would normally be blank (how often are people using more than, say, ten subtasks? That subtask list is not often going to take up more than half of that sidebar).
- If content is in one of the sidebars, I'd say remove it from the middle column. For example I see subtasks are still in the middle column despite them being in the left sidebar. That's doubling up of content which is a waste of space, and slows down discovery of other info in the middle column.
- Still agree with Hadhemi Gafsi that custom fields should be merged in with the top level info (Status/Assignees/Dates). We only use about max 5 custom fields so it wouldn't push other content down too far, and it actually reduces white space because you remove a divider. Would be happy for this to be customisable, though.
- Sidebar view while in list view: HELL YEAH
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Villa: Hi Ivan. Good video. There's a lot to like with this redesign.
Key things for me:-
- I love that the right sidebar is not dedicated to updates and comments now, which I hardly ever use. Can we please get defaults to save clicking if we want it to show custom fields or relationships by default?
- Better than that, could we select multiple? So custom fields AND relationships? That way, we can see exactly the information important to us.
- Left sidebar - wound love subtasks to be expandable.
- Would be great to add checklists to left and/or right sidebar. You could see them under and at the same time as subtasks, or separately.
5 Middle section order should be rearrangeable. So I want task description first, then subtasks, then checklists, then custom fields, then relationships, etc. Someone else might want it another way. It would be great to be able to move them around as we please.
I personally disagree with comments here about custom fields coming higher up. But that's why a modular/customisable approach would be good.
- Templates/defaults. So we don't have to arrange all the above per task.
- I would like to see a bigger default task description area.
- Same for sidebar view (when task view opens to one side) - we should be able to choose what we see in it or the order of things.
- Sounds like you may already be doing this, but can we choose to default to sidebar or full-screen view, with a button to then do the other when needed? Some people like sidebar, some like full screen. The choice would be great.
- Please can we still have a full screen task description button? I write a lot in task description, and could really do with a proper full-screen view, or at minimum the same as docs can.
Thanks again! Great stuff!
Samuel Schneider
Ivan Villa: First of all, it's great that you involve the users so much in the conception. Win-win. Brilliant! So far I know this only from OpenSource projects...
- the vertical icons list was not logical for me. I would also put them somewhere in the right sidebar. Otherwise, you have to think first.
- my team and I personally don't use custom fields very often. Please give us the possibility to move the positions individually, because every user has different preferences.
- am i blind or is the TimeTracking missing in the conception? VERY IMPORTANT for workers and large teams! :) Please just one click to start, so as it is now. Unnecessary clicks = annoying.
- sidebar view while in list, board, calendar view: Absolutely!!!
Julian Pustkuchen
Could this please be reviewed in this context? UX issue for new users we experienced for every new team member 😁
Tom Solid
Overall I love the new slick design, Zeb and team! If you tell me that clicking on "Subtasks" in the To Do section will unfold its content, then I am loving it 100%!
Ivan Villa
Tom Solid: Thanks Tom! Yea we are playing with how things collapse and expand at the moment :)
Julian Pustkuchen
Zeb I was just wondering why https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/addedit-tasks-in-a-split-screen-instead-of-overlay-modal isn't part of this, as
- it is marked in progress
- has many many votes
- might be able to put task navigation UX and hierarchy jumping to a new level 😉
So I think this should definitely be considered?
Ivan Villa
Julian Pustkuchen: It's part of this :)
Julian Pustkuchen
Will the time tracking UI (esp. in Tasks display) and functionality also be improved in this step? There are some UX flaws, see separate issues, still feels very alpha and not at ClickUp / competitor level. Thanks :)
Ivan Villa
Julian Pustkuchen: Not in this scope, but we do agree there is room for improvement there. I will pass the message along!
Julian Pustkuchen
Ivan Villa: thanks,thought I better mention it now, as I couldn't see time tracking present in the Video
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