Hi. I would like for monday.com users to have the ability to customize columns labels and column types by group and sub-group.
I did review and old feature request from 2019 asking for this same thing; however I didn’t see any clear response from monday.com. The link provided as to why monday.com has not approved this request is broken.
If we are using a board with more than one group, sometimes the group columns or sub-item columns may need a different set of columns. I can’t customize my board if I am restricted to limiting all my groups to only one other group’s column needs. Separating out the groups into their own boards also doesn’t make sense if I want to invite a customer to their one board with all their groups. If I have five different groups in my board, that means I would have to invite my client to five different boards just to get more freedom to customize each groups columns! It would turn my workflow from 12 client boards to over 60 to track the different processes in my workflow for our clients! Not sure if you can review my boards, but the example I am talking about is our “Athletes” Workspace / The Path Template. This template consists of 6 different groups and over 60 different items and subitems.
There has to be a way that you can program in a toggle system that allows us to tell the board to change all the columns for each group with my next action OR only the current columns I am customizing.
I have been learning lots about monday.com recently and have become amazed with all the different things it can do. However, I am finding that I am constantly making new boards because I am stuck with the same columns in every group I make on a board. This means that I cannot track different elements of my business as efficiently in one place and have to keep jumping between different boards.
It would be really helpful to have the option to choose if a new group either has the same columns or instead could have its own columns. For example: One group could have a date column, time column and a status column. Another group on the same board could have a labels column, person column and a different date column.
We want to have one project under one board and we have multiple groups working within the same project. We want to have a new group with different columns which pertain to another area working on the same project.
Hi @dawnvisinta - It’s a core feature of how monday․com is designed that all items on a single board all share the same column structure. Subitems can have their own structure that is different, but all subitems on the same board will have the same columns. You can’t change this by Group. Wanted to let you know you aren’t missing any secret or tip! That’s just how it works.
~ Deb Cinkus, PMP Certified monday․com Partner
CEO & Principal Consultant, Polished Geek
We would love this feature. The Tables feature in MS Excel allows this ie, you can add multiple tables to the one sheet and thus different columns per table. It’s a major inhibitor of what we would like to do with monday.com that the columns must be the same across all groups.
I just found out here that you can’t customize columns per group (which is a real bummer, if you ask me, independently of what the defenders of Monday have said). Since columns have to remain the same, can I at least hide columns in one group but make them visible on another? For example, our board establishes a refund process. Customers fill out a form requesting a refund. The request goes to group called “New Requests”. Rep #1 is the only one that should be touching any columns in this group. He reviews the request, indicates his approval or rejection recommendation there and changes the status of the request to “reviewed”, which then moves the request to a new group called “Reviewed”. Rep #2 then looks at the request in the “Reviewed” group and is the only one authorized to hit the “approved” or “rejected” button (we don’t use a status change for that). We have a column for the approved button and a separate column for the rejected button. Well, it seems like the “approved” and “rejected” button columns would also show up on the “New Requests” group. Can I hide these columns there without affecting them in the “Reviewed” group?
You can also create a separate board view for each role, hiding the irrelevant columns in each view. Then your reps can either just navigate to the correct tab themselves, or you can provide a link to the correct tab which they can save as a browser shortcut.
Agree with the two prior comments to create multiple role-based board views. I would also recommend applying column permissions to ensure only certain people can edit certain columns or even see the column if there is additional sensitive information.
Yes, except you can’t import an excel to sub items, only to regular items. Either let us import excel to subitems or let us change the columns for a group so we can import that excel to the group with different coloumns.
Please add this feature, along with importing subitems from excel. I don’t want to create a 1000 boards just because Monday.com thinks all columns in each group should be the same! You are not the users.
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Yes, please add this feature!! It interrupts the workflow to have to move a task list from one board to it’s own only so that I can customize it’s columns.
Such a pain having to have the same columns in subitems → running one campaign, different tactics organised by group (ie social, landing page updates, promo emails, direct mails), require different planning process/status/tracking etc.
Please tell me this is now a feature and I simply haven’t found it yet…
I think you are going to get a ton of love for your post … and yes! I think the idea is nice … but … when you start thinking about it, it can be super messy. I’ve been using Monday.com for about a year and a half and have come to learn and appreciate the simplicity of the structure. Although a good idea, I’d prefer to keep the Column / Row concept the way it is. Just like I like to have my separated tabs in excel, I would like to have my monday.com boards separated. Mirroring pulses is useful for combining boards and tasks.
YES and NO, Yes, this is would be lovely as a solution often need more than one board. In my use case which is about bid- and tender management I need 4 board, all with different column layout and permissions, One for the planning, one for registers (risks, assumptions etc), one for documents and one for miscellaneous.
No, because it will be bit of messy to have everything in one board.
I am focusing on the ability to have my set of users (members and guest) the same for all boards, I would like to call this a “superboard” or board of boards. Folders will also do as long as I can assign users to it that will be inherited by all boards.
As this is not possible (today) I am building my own “superboard” on my Wordpress website and use the V2 API to threat 4 boards as 1 solution. There are some shortcoming in the API to do that but I am confident these will be solved very soon.
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It interrupts the workflow to have to move a task list from one board to it’s own only so that I can customize it’s columns.