When grouping a Kanban board where the grouping field is multiple selection, the current behaviour is to group by unique set of values. So if we have options A and B, groups will be “A”, “B”, “A+B” and “None”. This makes it very hard to have a segmentation of all the rows that have a value selected in that field.
For example, I have a list of initiatives (rows) that impact multiple teams (each team is a value in a multiple select field), so if I group initiatives by Team, I can’t see all initiatives that impact a single team in a single place, since the default behaviour is that if an initiative impacts two teams, that row will show in a separate group. I’ll have to visit all the groups to find which groups include that team, increasing the chance of me missing something and introducing human error.
I tried creating one subtask per team and tagging each subtask with a single team, and disabled nesting but this means now I have to manage 6 or 7 individual subtasks with no way of keeping the values in sync - some values are individual to the team / subtask, some should be replicated across all the subtasks.
Ask:
- Have an easy way to manage groupings by multi-select fields. Allow the user to choose to display separate groups for unique combinations vs showing the same row multiple times on each group it shows up in.
- Alternatively, allow the syncronization of parent to child values, this way the user can create multiple subtasks that are easier to manage when a property of the children needs to be kept updated with the parent.
This is how I’m managing for now:
- Create a subtask for each team that is contributing to an initiative
- Make sure the parent is assigned in the subtask
- In the “teams” field, create a new value “multiple teams”
- Assign the “multiple teams” value to the parent, assign each individual team value to the subtask
This way, the parent shows up in the “Multiple teams” group, and by toggling “nesting” off, I can see the initiative in each team and also see, and by toggling it on, I have a quick way to manage the values in bulk in the same place when I need to edit a common property.
