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REQUEST: Disable the magic organize button on the frame sidebar. Or just make it go away. Or make it only available to the board owner.

BACKGROUND: The “magic organise” button has disrupted two of my training sessions. I have a 200 frame canvas which I’ve meticulously organised over two years into columns (logically matching the top to bottom flow of the sidebar). One day about a month ago this wiggly button appears on the frame sidebar. One of my students (or I) inevitably click on it by mistake or out of curiosity and BANG all 200 frames are now ordered in rows. Unless I’m immediately aware that it’s happened (and immediately CTRL Z or ask the specific student to CTRL Z) the board’s order is destroyed and restoring it takes hours. “What slide are we on?” asks one of my students. “I’m sorry I don’t know” I have to say. I guess I could tell all my students NOT to press the wiggly button but that’s like telling someone not to think of juggling clowns… once you’ve said it, it’s almost impossible not to do it!

ASIDE: This seems to reflect an attitude of throwing new options into Miro thinking that new options are always a “value add” without proper thought as to how it might impact particular use cases. These might be considered “edge cases” and therefore unimportant. But anyone who wants to use Miro for training / teaching and has a board setup over a long period of time would have given feedback that this “neat and helpful idea” potentially renders Miro almost useless for training / teaching.

 

 

Yes, I wholeheartedly second this. Have to go back to Mural until this is functionality is either removed or hidden.

I agree 100% with Duncan. This feature and the loose (and frankly, irresponsible) decision to give the capability to throw the frame sequencing into absolute chaos is beyond frustrating. This happened to me for the 2nd time in 3 weeks at a class I’m teaching this morning. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me the ability to disable this feature. 

@Miro Community Team -- can you please respond to this issue? The “Organize Frames” options seemed, at least for some amount of time, to be made unavailable to non-board-owners. Now the option appears to be back and available to my students. Can you please clarify your intent and plan with this extremely (potentially) dangerous and disruptive feature!?!

This Organize frames action should be restricted to the board owner/co-owner role. If anyone else wants to change the order of frames, e.g., for exporting a board or presenting, they should create their own board :)

I’m surprised that Miro has yet to respond to this. The Organize Frames option completely threw off my class today. Those frames need to be in a specific order and I spent precious class time reorganizing the 178 frames of my course. I would also love to know if ANYONE actually uses this feature and if so, how? why?

Hi @Kimberly Poremski  and everyone!

 

Thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback on this feature. We appreciate it.

 

Should our team have any other questions, they will be sure to follow up. 

 

For those coming across this idea, if you feel it's helpful to have or have additional suggestions, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request.

I've heard complaints face-to-face and on mailing list about this feature from many people, I'm surprised very few people took the time to complain here. But then again: I also thought this would be sorted out soon, and did not take the time complain. Now I finally do:

This is extremely annoying when working with a group of people who are new to Miro (which I often do).

PLEASE restrict this feature to owner / co owners or at least make it possible to restrict it via the boards settings.

 

 

P.S. when sharing the board via a link only, the horrible “organize frames” option is not shown, so that may be a way around the problems some of you are having.

Hi everyone,
 

Thank you so much for your feedback! We hear you and agree that the “Organize Frames” functionality needs improvement. We will be prioritizing these enhancements over the next couple of months.

 

Stay tuned for updates, and thanks again for helping us make the product better!

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