Saved filter / aggregated projects

Feature Discussion
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Context

I have a project with three different subprojects to be managed, and in this case the most comfortable way to interact with these tasks (for me) is the kanban. I would like to have the possibility to interact in an “aggregated view of the kanbans” with the changes being reflected also to the child projects.

Description of the problem / bug

Currently the only way I found to view all the tasks of subprojects as if there was only the parent projects, is to create a saved filter, with a simple query “project in <subproject_name_1>, <subproject_name_2>, …”

I would expect to:

  • See the kanban view of the saved filter as a union of the columns of the kanbans (e.g., if subproject1 has “todo, doing, testing, done” and subproject 2 has “backlog, todo, doing, running, done, approved”, the merged view should have backlog, “ backlog, todo, doing, done, approved, running, testing approved”, and the possibility to reorganize the order of those columns)
  • Moving one task in another column of the saved filter, implies also moving to the corresponding column of the subproject (clearly, if a column is there because of the union, but is not present in a subproject, then the task cannot be moved to that column, e.g., a task of subproject 1 cannot be moved to approved).

Currently:

  • The created saved filter’s kanban doesn’t show all the columns, but only the default ones
  • Changes made in the saved filter’s kanban are not reflected to the subprojects

I know this might not be the main purpose of the saved filter, and might be more a “parent project feature”, but I would really like to have this possibility of managing the kanban both from the parent and the child projects.

If it is more reasonable to not expect this as a “saved filters’ property”, and I should change the label to a feature request or similar to have a better management of the child projects, just tell me!

How to reproduce

Both in 1.1.0 self hosted, and the online demo

Thanks a lot,

landomix

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Hey,

I like the idea. We’re currently not doing that because a task can be in many saved filters at the same time, which makes it very hard to decide from which kanban board to which other kanban board the buckets cascade down to.

If you’re only using the default buckets, you can kind of achieve something like that with the default and done bucket settings, but that won’t work when your kanban board is more complicated than that.

For your use-case I think we could implement something where the kanban board cascades down from the parent project, combined with a setting to show all tasks from all children.

I’ve moved this to the feature request section because it’s a little more involved than a bug fix.