I’ll add my vote to this as I build some really complex ecosystem models with multiple flows of value between entities. Having the ability to layer this to manage this complexity would be great. 

There is currently only one layer on a Miro board making it very difficult to work with a large number of objects, and results in having to send an object either all the way to the bottom or all the way to the top every time there is an order conflict.

Same here Jeff.  Miro has the best in class diagram editor, but lack of layers is holding it back.  Groups are not the same as layers, frames are also not the same. We need the ability to drill down into different layers or diagrams, some kind of interactivity.  It is the #1 reason we can’t fully adopt. 

Agreed that we NEED this ability - it’s especially important for sharing boards with stakeholders and non-technical designers. Even if the boards came with only a set number of layers to be shown / hidden - maybe three to five to start? - it would still be better than nothing… and certainly better than having to manage two (or more) separate versions of the same document for non-designers and developers.

We desperately need Layers.  We have diffrent types of equipment that we overlay on top of each other, all colorcoded and need the ability to see/hide certain layers.  We can't work without Layers.  We have found that this is a major shortcoming.

YES PLEASE! Layers and being able to maintain groups within groups is SO important!!!

+1 to this nested frames! This would be wildly useful to so many workflows.

This is the thing that keeps me in lucidchart. 

Being able to toggle layers on and off using “buttons” is crucial to highlighting relationships, improved workflows, steps that are being removed from a process, or adding informational pop-up windows with text. 

Miro is so much better than LucidChart in so many ways.  It just desperately needs layers.  We would move all our Lucidcharts over if this had layers!

Layers would provide a ton of depth to the existing feature set, and would in turn add a lot of new ways to use Miro.

When thinking about complex flow charts specifically; I have previously made these in a different flow chart app because they support layers along with the ability to create “links” (basically little scripts that target the current window) that can toggle layers by name or ID. You can add these “links” to shapes or text for example, essentially giving the end user buttons that can directly control these layers. I am not saying this was the most user friendly way of going about it, but the power was there!

This in itself meant I was able to create a singular large flowchart, but split content in layers to cater for different consumers, increasing readability immensely!

tldr: +1 to Layers and interactive controls to manipulate these individually (toggle)

Also waiting for nested frames / layers / tabs.

Any update?

yes please to layers /frames

Yes to layers - would simplify a lot when buikding complex user flows 

Yes please to layers/frames - would make life much easier! 

I just hit a limitation in Miro regarding layers.  I thought I could fake layers using visible/hidden frames but the hidden frame becomes opaque and thus blocks whatever is behind it.  Hidden behind layers, surprisingly, do the same thing to what’s in *front* of them.

My current goal is to build a diagram, layer by layer, and then present the diagram by toggling things on/off.  I can’t see how to do that when elements overlap (which is the whole diagram effectively).

Without layers, it looks like I’ll need to duplicate the elements N times and carefully delete what I don’t want to show on each frame in my presentation.  This will kill productivity if I need to rework anything (which I’m sure I will w/this being a so-called “living document” for our group).

+1 for layers

I’ll +1 for nested frames and/or frames in layers. Only one layer of hierarchy is making it difficult to organize more expanded content.

Frame withtin frame is a necessary feature! One year later nothing yet? 

Bumping up this request. 
 

we’re capturing Product Flows in Miro and “layers” (as in other flow chart tools or even graphic editors) would allow us to abstract complexity by hiding layers like “Events”, “Team”, “Repository”, “screenshots”

Agree this is critical to creating meaningful artifacts in more than the x- and y-axes. Adding and managing layers would enable us to build more flexible and useful documents over time.

So I’m new to Miro but I’ve had an intensive couple of weeks using it with a small team.

One anomaly seems to be that I sometimes want frames within frame and if you make a bunch of frame to house specific lists or themes, then you decide to make a large frame to group them all together, the issues are:

either - you have to then drop all the previous frame onto the new frame 

or - select, delete, copy and paste - 

if you do not do this and you have colour coded your frames, you will find that your smaller coloured frames are behind the bigger newer frame.

Solution:  - If I could ‘click’ that big frame and -choose ‘send to back’, or similar, (Front) I could organise these without all the delete past which I seem to be doing.

SO the issue lies where adding a new larger frame used to group older smaller frame, the new big one is on top by default which masks the colours of the older frames - of course you can see the data still, but its more about the colour coding I'm using being lost.

thanks folks :)

Looking forward to layers as well

Yes, layers are definitely missing and would be most useful new functionality. I have an addition to that, I would Miro to be able to make the canvas completely transparent, so you only see you computer screen and then I want to be able to draw in Miro on top of the computer screen. So basically I want a transparant Miro layer on top of any screen or application which is showing at my computer screen, and yes of course than after annotating or drawing I want to be able to save the miro drawing, including the application / screen that was open and of course with all the miro annotations and drawings and additions. That would be a huge and important improvement of the tool

Place objects in a layers. 

Example: Layer A,B,C

1. ON: A, B
2. OFF: C

Solution: 

In the same way a card has a tag, a card has a layer. 

Looking forward to seeing this in 2022!

Yes, layers please. We need them as well.