Problem: Color coding timeline items is static to 1 timeline, and is not connected to anything concrete.
For example: I could have 3 different views using the same timeline, change records color in 1 and the other 2 remain the same.
Additionally, all those colors are manual.
Proposed solutions
- Good enough: Make color changes reflect across all synced timelines
- Ideal: Add a timeline setting where you can choose a field, and color items based on that.
- For example, I might have a dropdown “Type” assigned to records, with these options:
- Vision: Yellow
- Project: Green
- Task: Blue
- Other: Grey
- I should be able to set color of tasks to “type” on the timeline.
- Then, instead of syncing colors to all timelines, you just have the option to manually set the color preference to “Type”
- Perhaps a different view prefers to use “Status” as the color, and they can do that, on just that timeline.
- For example, I might have a dropdown “Type” assigned to records, with these options:
My current use case:
- I recently set up a series of spaces, using a shared timeline.
- Each space is for each contributing team, with 1 view, to pull them all together.
- I want any color coordination to be consistent, and easy to follow, across all teams engaging with the tool.
- Currently, if I color our high level projects, other teams just see a sea of yellow boxes.
