Create Subtask Hover Dropdown Misleading
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Michael Rosenberg
The recently added “toggle” that appears on hover alongside a task that acts to create a Subtask is extremely misleading.
Our team has already commented that it makes them think there are subtasks that are not appearing. It doesn’t make sense that a dropdown toggle like this would be used as a UI element to CREATE a new Subtask instead of view existing subtasks.
The + already serves this purpose in a way that makes UX sense. The toggle simply adds confusion. It’d be helpful if ClickUp either changed the view toggle to a + instead of a rotating triangle (i.e. Make the “Create” button a “Create” button and NOT a VIEW toggle)and remove the other location, or remove this toggle entirely.
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Guy Mannerings
While this is being adjusted, can the icons that become visible when you hover over a task please be moved back next to the task name on the left?
They have been moved to the right, which is really far away from what you are actually interacting with.
I would guess most people move their mouse somewhere over or near the actual name to get these buttons to show, so to get the mouse over to the buttons to click them requires a fair bit of extra work and mouse movement accuracy.
Further, trying to start on the far side to skip that first step is difficult, because you have to try and get the vertical placement of your mouse right with the right task.
These icons were much easier and quicker to use when they were on the left.
Molly Whelan
Couldn't agree more - I was really confused why this is even a thing
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Ralph Stokes
Yes! can't wait for this to get sorted out, it is so annoying! That arrow should only appear if there are sub-tasks.
Guy Mannerings
Ralph Stokes: I really hope this gets reverted.
I keep opening Tasks thinking they have Subtasks and then realise they don't.
It makes me keep wondering if something is missing or I am forgetting something.
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Ralph Stokes
Guy Mannerings: Yeah me too. And plenty of others by the look of it! Poor UI design, it's always the little details they seem to be missing.
Christina Majoinen
One of the things I
loved
about ClickUp when moving from Asana was that it's possible to see at a glance in List view - without really thinking about it at all - whether a task has subtasks or not just by seeing whether there is a dropdown caret. It makes subtasks actually functional. (My workaround in Asana was to always write "See subtasks" into the task name if there were subtasks. I'd hate to go back to that.)Guy Mannerings
Christina Majoinen: I wonder if you might upvote this, in that case!
It's about bringing back the really useful 2.0 feature, where it displayed the count of subtasks for each task, with their representative status colour.
This meant you always knew how many subtasks each task had, and what status they were in.
It was
really
useful, and told you a lot of information in one glance.As opposed to the tiny, not eye-grabbing, not information-giving subtask icon 3.0 has. - It's just not as productive at all, and, personally, is causing me to miss subtasks.
And also one to make it a column.
Ginger Marcus
100% I clicked on that dang thing so many times yesterday trying to see what was in there before I started to understand what was going on 😆
Luis Ramirez
+1 - it's also hilarious that the caret on the left says "Create subtask" and the "+" icon on the right says "Add subtask". Did two different people work on these?
Guy Mannerings
This icon is getting really confusing. I keep thinking there are subtasks when there aren't.
My vote is to put it back how it was and not have a subtask adding icon on the left
at all
.The only icon on the left should be the original one that was for expanding subtasks that were already present.
Any other icon, whether a + or otherwise, is really confusing, because the left is universally reserved for expanding and collapsing in pretty much every program out there.
Having a way to add a subtask on the left is really confusing. It's just not how other programs work. It should be for expanding and collapsing only.
Just leave the subtask adding on the right, as it was.
Zakher
The arrow can be replaced with a plus sign
Michael
Merged in a post:
Option to toggle off the relocated 'create new subtask' icon
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Heather
When hovering over a task name in list view now, it's harder to tell if that task has subtasks or not because the little indicator icon on the left (much clearer and easier to find than the little icon after the random-length task name) turns into a 'create new subtask' icon when this used to just show that subtasks exist. Now I keep clicking on it to expand subtasks but it creates a task and I have to click out of it to cancel again. Can't imagine a scenario when this would be helpful. I too love that clickup is constantly making changes and updating but I'm struggling to find anything in 3.0 that's an improvement. It feels like we're going backwards.
Elias
100 % agree
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