Moving a task to a collapsed bucket

Feature Discussion
1

currently a collapsed bucket needs to be uncollapsed to move any tasks to it

My example usage:
I add my ideas to an “Ideas” board and use a collapsed “Bad” bucket to hide distractions, but I have to open the bucket to move tasks in, seeing distractions

Expected behaviour:
Tasks dragged to a closed bucket should trigger the dotted line around the bucket, releasing a task moves it to the bottom of the collapsed bucket

2

Moving a bucket to a different list

Currently, only individual tasks can be moved to another list.

My example usage:
When a project in my “Ideas” board develops, I want to move the bucket to its own list to work on it.
Also, after importing 1000s of tasks from Trello, I have no way to move these buckets to my “Ideas” board.

Expected behaviour:
Clicking the 3 dots on a bucket should give the options: “Move” → “Type to search for a list” (the same as the “Move” option for an individual task). Dragging the bucket to a different list would be good too.

(Out of scope, but even better for my use case would be an option “Link/Create list from this bucket” where clicking the bucket takes you to the same bucket in a different list. )

Maybe this should be a separate request, but I think the implementation of moving tasks and moving buckets is similar, so I’m adding it here.

3

I like that idea. Dragging into a collapsed bucket might be easier to implement but we also had a discussion somewhere about changing the bucket from the task detail view (that would allow collapsed buckets as well)

4

Thanks for the reply!

For moving task into a closed bucket, I think it’s just a case of:

  • Dotted border appears around a closed bucket when holding a task over it
  • Releasing the task moves it to the bottom/top of the bucket

I’m not sure how you handle moving individual tasks in the code, but moving buckets could be implemented in a similar way, eg.

  • create the new bucket
  • loop through the tasks in the current bucket, calling the moveTask function for each
  • delete the old bucket if empty
5

I can’t see the other discussion, but I’d personally prefer Drag&Drop over using the task detail view.
If I had to open the detail view to move it to a closed bucket, it’d still feel more natural for me to just open the collapsed bucket and collapse it again.

I posted a video example on the Matrix group the other day but I can’t attach it here.

6

I’ve just been playing with using the related tasks feature - would love to be able to add an entire bucket/list as subtasks with this!

This would allow for using one list to track all ideas and a list per project to expand on those ideas.

eg.

  • “App” is a task in “Ideas” list
  • “Roadmap” is a list with tasks about the app
  • “Roadmap” added as subtask of “App”
  • Tasks from “Roadmap” shown in “App” task details page
7

Pretty much, but it should happen in the api. It can be much more efficient there.

8

is there any reasonable way to move buckets to a different list using cli or editing the database? I have like 3 lists that need merging together

9

Currently there’s no way to do this. Feel free to start a new thread so that people can upvote it.