We just released Grids to Miro users and are actively looking for feedback. If you have this feature, tried it and feel like sharing your thoughts with us, don’t hesitate to let us know!
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Anna, Jason & Michelle – please DM me – I’ll see what I can do! If you can record your screen & share your board backup with me, that’d be fantastic. I can work with the engineering team to figure our what’s not working for you.
Userlevel 6
+1
I’m looking into this feature for user requirements gathering, but it looks like the text you type directly into the cells will NOT be exported into an CSV excel file. I know it will work with sticky notes, but that’s an extra move on the guest users part (shout out to the guest editing feature!), and sticky notes have a text limit, and putting a text box in there might get confusing for them to know if this is the text box or the cell in the grid.
TLDR; can we get the direct text in the cells of the grids to export too?
Looks like progress has been made on the CSV export! I set up a 6 row x 4 column grid and was able to export the data as a CSV file.
What worked: All data was exported. There were 6 rows and 4 columns in the spreadsheet. Columns 1 and 4 were an exact match between the grid and the spreadsheet. Data from each row was extracted into the correct row.
What didn’t work: Data in columns 2 and 3 of the grid were imported into column 2 of the Excel spreadsheet. A row was added in column 2 for the data in column 3, making the entries appear to be stacked (column 2 data over column 3 data). Column 3 was blank.
Hi, Jenny. Can you please DM me your board backup (doesn’t have all of the board – we only need to see the original Grid) and the .csv file or a screenshot of that .csv?
Userlevel 6
+1
I’m unable to create a grid on Windows. I’ve tried it both on the desktop app and the browser. I’m able to select the grid size (rows and columns), but when clicking on the board, nothing is added. My pointer changes to the grid icon.
This is where you need to pick the spot on the board and click on it – a new Grid will be added. You can watch this GIF to get a better idea.
I’m looking into this feature for user requirements gathering, but it looks like the text you type directly into the cells will NOT be exported into an CSV excel file. I know it will work with sticky notes, but that’s an extra move on the guest users part (shout out to the guest editing feature!), and sticky notes have a text limit, and putting a text box in there might get confusing for them to know if this is the text box or the cell in the grid.
TLDR; can we get the direct text in the cells of the grids to export too?
Looks like progress has been made on the CSV export! I set up a 6 row x 4 column grid and was able to export the data as a CSV file.
What worked: All data was exported. There were 6 rows and 4 columns in the spreadsheet. Columns 1 and 4 were an exact match between the grid and the spreadsheet. Data from each row was extracted into the correct row.
What didn’t work: Data in columns 2 and 3 of the grid were imported into column 2 of the Excel spreadsheet. A row was added in column 2 for the data in column 3, making the entries appear to be stacked (column 2 data over column 3 data). Column 3 was blank.
I’m unable to create a grid on Windows. I’ve tried it both on the desktop app and the browser. I’m able to select the grid size (rows and columns), but when clicking on the board, nothing is added. My pointer changes to the grid icon.
Userlevel 6
+1
Hi
The grid is an awesome feature :-)
I have been using it to create some swim lanes to describe user flows for a system we are building.
I have noticed that often I can not resize the rows or columns, even though there is enough free space.
I have shifted to manual cell resize.
I have shapes and connection lines in the cells and the lines also go across the cells.
I nice add on would be to make it possible to change text direction to vertical, in my case I would use that for row names. That is often used for swim lanes. In the current setup, the text gets in my way ;-)
Other than that, I love working with the grid and Miro in general :-)
I tested a bit more and have found that if I delete the lines connecting across cells, I can resize.
This is though a bit annoying as you might imagine ;-)
Thanks for using Grids and giving us feedback, Mikael!
Userlevel 6
+1
This is very welcome!
After using it a little bit:
- Missing vertical alignment
- Can't group assets inside cells
- Can we have padding and cell spacing?
Vertical alignment is coming soon :) Other requests are also noted – passing them along to the product team.
Userlevel 6
+1
it doesn’t seem like there is a way to lock a grid so that participants in a brainstorm can just click in the entry field (text field) or drag something to the given cell. the locking seems to be all or nothing and inconsistent (like a grid building can’t say “lock this stuff, but leave this stuff open” the way you might do with a form filling out version of a pdf for instance. So random guest editors or naive senior executives who haven’t figured out your “interaction physics” are stuck feeling like they broke something. Help?
No solution on the product side atm – and feedback definitely taken. A workaround – maybe you can take some time at the beginning of the session (normally 5-10 minutes is enough) to help people familiarize themselves with the product a little bit. We’ve seen many facilitators using Miro for workshops do that and it helps make all collaborators more comfortable when working on the board.
Userlevel 6
+1
Anna, Jason & Michelle – please DM me – I’ll see what I can do! If you can record your screen & share your board backup with me, that’d be fantastic. I can work with the engineering team to figure our what’s not working for you.
Userlevel 6
+1
Hi Lena,
it’s so cool - so good.
Noticed one thing:
Add a grid with 5x6 or so cells
Add in one cell an arrow:
Move the grid … arrow doesn’t move …
And an additonal wish:
Make Mindmaps elements move into the gridsections, too.
This would be great.
I am so fascinated about this new tool.
Great work!!!
Michael
Thanks for the feedback – passing it on to the product team.
Userlevel 6
+1
Is it live today? I got a notice in my board that I could use it but when i try to drop it into my board, it doesn't appear.
Hey Nikki, how is the feature working for you now? If you still have issues, please, don’t hesitate to DM me and I’ll be happy to help.
Userlevel 1
No “love” yet. I don’t know is
Userlevel 7
+9
Hi together,
I reccomend to report the issues you discoverd to:
So nothing gets lost.
Michael
No “love” yet. I don’t know is
it doesn’t seem like there is a way to lock a grid so that participants in a brainstorm can just click in the entry field (text field) or drag something to the given cell. the locking seems to be all or nothing and inconsistent (like a grid building can’t say “lock this stuff, but leave this stuff open” the way you might do with a form filling out version of a pdf for instance. So random guest editors or naive senior executives who haven’t figured out your “interaction physics” are stuck feeling like they broke something. Help?
Userlevel 1
This is very welcome!
After using it a little bit:
- Missing vertical alignment
- Can't group assets inside cells
- Can we have padding and cell spacing?
I cannot seem to delete a row or column. not trash icon is available, as shown in the help instructions. I can only ADD. A toggle that changes “add” to “remove” might be nice, like holding shift changes + to -.
When I hover over a cell in the grid, I see a ‘3-dot’ icon floating at the far end of the row and at the top of the column for that cell. If I click that icon, a toolbar menu opens which includes a trash can to delete either the row or column, depending upon which 3-dot menu was opened. Hope that helps!
Thanks Shari! I needed that. 
Hi
The grid is an awesome feature :-)
I have been using it to create some swim lanes to describe user flows for a system we are building.
I have noticed that often I can not resize the rows or columns, even though there is enough free space.
I have shifted to manual cell resize.
I have shapes and connection lines in the cells and the lines also go across the cells.
I nice add on would be to make it possible to change text direction to vertical, in my case I would use that for row names. That is often used for swim lanes. In the current setup, the text gets in my way ;-)
Other than that, I love working with the grid and Miro in general :-)
I tested a bit more and have found that if I delete the lines connecting across cells, I can resize.
This is though a bit annoying as you might imagine ;-)
Hi
The grid is an awesome feature :-)
I have been using it to create some swim lanes to describe user flows for a system we are building.
I have noticed that often I can not resize the rows or columns, even though there is enough free space.
I have shifted to manual cell resize.
I have shapes and connection lines in the cells and the lines also go across the cells.
I nice add on would be to make it possible to change text direction to vertical, in my case I would use that for row names. That is often used for swim lanes. In the current setup, the text gets in my way ;-)
Other than that, I love working with the grid and Miro in general :-)
Userlevel 7
+6
Why not just duplicate one grid multiple times to keep them all the same size?
Snap objects also just makes it easy to align objects with one another but not with the grid - that has to be done manually as far as I know.
Kiron
I want to use several grids on my board but I’m struggling to keep the size of them the exact same, same column widths etc. The grids also don’t snap to the board grid? Please advise :)
- Text Alignment in Cells: As of now Grid only supports left/center/right alignments it would be good if Top/Middle/Bottom alignments are also provided
I’m also missing it
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