My feedback with the friction I felt starting with it:
Move parent items and its subitems to another board
When filtering by a person, be able to show the parent item if this person is only present at a sub-item (helps us visualize a bigger picture of what she is working on)
Copy columns (specially status ones) from parent items to sub-items. I had to create them again from scratch.
Convert one item into a sub-item of another one and viceversa
Through Google Chrome, move from fields with keyboard arrows as in parent items
Our biggest usage hope for subitems was to be able to remedy printing boards in a concise fashion. Currently all boards seem to default the item name column (farthest left) to fill the width which can not be modified shorter than a set amount, so our boards are unable to fit well on a printed 8.5" x 11" sheet. The only remedy I could find was to scale down the size to sub-90%, which is too small to read. My hope with sub-items was that I could put notes for each delivery (our use case is a delivery schedule for a dumpster rental company) in the subitems and they could nest nicely below each item, but by default there is just way too much extra vertical space being added for sub-items. My hopes would be for some additional view/printing settings to adjust font size/padding of cells, etc. This is also a feature I’ve requested in the past for utilizing Form View on external websites. The padding of cells looks great onscreen for a board, but it’s just too large for other uses. See my screenshots:
My main point of feedback is it would be nice to have a standard set of sub-items that could be auto-generated for each new item. For example on certain boards, there’s a standard list of tasks that need to be accomplished for all items (which often are forgotten). This equates to about 6 sub-items that need to be manually generated for each item on that board. Is this something that already exists and I’ve overlooked it?
This is what we need too…
a standard template of subitems to be created (via automation??) por a type of pulse.
example:
i have a “type of task” status column, i could have an automation to create a specific list of subitems for this task, and another set of subitems for another type of tasks
It would be great to have the subitem columns replicate the same as the main item. I have to go across all of my boards and mimic the columns for the main item, for example…
Main item:
Example campaign
Subitems:
Social media posts
eShot assets
These would all need columns for job owner, designer, type, deadline, content, estimated time
My team uses Monday.com for scheduling social media posts, so our use of the mobile app is frequent. We have just started implementing use of sub-items which has been very helpful on desktop for organizing posts by topic (main item) and platform (sub-items), yet have run into the problem of not being able to view sub-items on mobile. In short:
Thank you for sub-items. Currently, I have a custom list in the status column. It would be nice if that custom list would be available for sub items also. Currently, I have to go into the status column of a sub item and edit the list to match the status list of the parent item.
Thanks!
We are working to implement Sub Items, however I am not so sure I want to grant other users full access to the board in board permission just to allow them to add sub items (Edit Everything).
You can add new pulses with the “Edit Content” permission, but not add sub items…the permissions are not consistent in regards to creating pulses and sub items.
Please consider to change so pulses and sub items work using the same permission.
Suggestion: What about an Item Level Progress Bar that is connected to the sub-item categories - but not from left to right, but from top to the last one in one category? Like a mirror for a checklist. The feedback for the status on the sub-items is missing otherwise on the top level.
A suggestion for subtasks is to have them carry over to a board built from a template. I added them to one of our templates then tried to copy that tempate into a new board and none of the subtasks populated on the board.
Hi, loving subitems so far, but we’ve hit a couple of snags (My Week and mobile not being forthcoming with what project the subitem was part of, inability to save a template of subitems) which I see already mentioned. There are a few other things that would make subitems much more useful for us.
We have 20-30 projects at a given with basically the same phases and steps for each, and while it has streamlined our process considerably to have those 23 steps in subitems on the main board instead of referring back to individual project boards for each (yikes), being able to group those tasks into phases would solve so many issues, especially with the new automation that notices when a group is marked “done.” A way to group subitems, followed by a way to change a status in the parent item when a group is completed would be amazing.
I was also wondering about labels for units of measurement for the subitem number columns and a way to aggregate the mirrored sum with the numbers in the parent item for budget breakdowns. Mirroring onto the parent is spiffy, but I wish I could roll it into the formula.
Thank you all for continuing to submit your feedback on subitems (positive and negative). We know there are still a lot of things missing and as we mentioned these are going to be released in increments. This is not only make sure that everything is stable, but to also ensure designed properly and functioning as anticipated.
We are continuing to monitor this thread and pass along all feedback to our product team, so please continue to share!
If at any point you experience any bugs or unusual behavior please write into support@monday.com!
Subitems should inherit the same column setup as the pulse they’re attached to. Mine are being spawned with simply Owner, Status and Date and are ignoring all the other columns set up on that board. This needs to include any custom setup of the status column. At present, when you create a sub-item you have to reconfigure all your columns for the subitem. This does seem to be a one-off deal thankfully, in that all future subitems on that board pick up the same setup, but it’s still very painful if you have a complicated column setup.
We need to be able to drag a pulse into or under another pulse to make it a subitem - without that feature, you can’t use Monday as a braindump, because you have plan your tasks as you’re writing them, instead of being able to order and organise them once you’re done. See Omnifocus for a great example of how this functionality could/should work.
We need to be able to nest sub-items, otherwise it’s not actually letting us organise our work sequentially, it’s just catering to one particular style of task organisation. Obviously there needs to be a limit just for useability’s sake, but being able to nest several layers deep is important.
The interface for subitems is very disruptive to the view of one’s task list as a whole. With subitem lists showing, it chews up a lot of unnecessary whitespace above and below the subitem list, making it way harder to see the state of one’s work at a glance.
I’m sure there would be disagreement here from some users but I’d far prefer to have the subitem columns aligned with the main pulse columns, and just have the subitem name/label column indented and some visual distinction; that way you wouldn’t need the whitespace above and below, and it’d be a lot more useable.
