It would be great to be able to group columns in a board. For example, I have an overview board that shows me where each item (project) is at and where we are in our timeline. On this same board, I have columns pulled in through “create an item” automation from our intake board with all of our client contact info (address, phone, email). I would like to keep all of this info on this board so my team has a way to easily contact our client throughout the process. However, we don’t always need to use these columns, so it would be nice to be able to group certain columns together, and then be able to easily/quickly collapse and expand them. Maybe using a carot or arrow icon that floats on top of the group. So it would be click > group expands >> click again > group collapses. Rather than click> select “expand group”>> group expands like the way you would currently collapse a column in Monday.com.
OR! Honestly, even just being able to double click to expand or collapse would be helpful!
I like this idea, it is a little cumbersome to expand/collapse columns.
1 other thing which I’ve found useful for this type of thing is using the ‘kanban’ view to see a summary of items. Or to use the Item view to see more details on an item in 1 place. (since columns tend to take up the width of the screen really quickly!
+1. We got a similar case here. In our project overview board we also store information we only occasionally need (e.g. planned vs. current timeline, difference in days, etc.). Being able to group those columns and quickly collapse/expand would hugely increase the usability of the board.
I am helping our development department move their grant tracking spreadsheet into Monday. I am very unfamiliar with grant tracking but I’m the designated “monday person” at my agency so there may be a better way to do this in general, but the grant tracking template I saw on monday’s use cases wasn’t detailed enough to capture everything our team is tracking.
I was thinking that it would be useful to be able to “group” columns and have the headers shaded a slightly different color, maybe with an option to add a title to a group of columns like this so that all columns that are associated with the same task (thank you letter, year end report, etc) are easily identifiable when you’re scrolling on a wide board.
Hi John and Casey!
Are you referring to something like this? I’ve been wanting this one for a while it would make a world of a difference in some of our boards! please consider … Thanks!
I’d further add the option to expand/contract these groups (as most spreadsheets provide the capability of doing).
While Monday already has the “hide” column ability, this expand/contract design pattern would likely need to be reworked since the existing pattern doesn’t accommodate labels. With multiple groups, labels would be needed to more easily differentiate. As for color, the existing color pattern configuration modal could be used, with assumed “lighter” background colors for simplicity’s sake.
+1 and big ups to @alejencia’s mock up! Will vote on that thread as well.
As we expand our column set further it becomes tough to tell the difference between columns. Simple grouping and/or shading like-columns would be a massive improvement.
I love everything I’m hearing in this thread! It is simple things like this that would really allow me to never look back at Excel (at least when it comes to project management).
Additionally, there are several sets of columns that could benefit from data linking like you see with the Combo Columns. So, Custom Combo Columns would be great!
Our boards even with views are starting to get very messy. This would be a much desired feature, especially minimizing/expanding a group of columns at once. Even a label that encompasses a bunch of columns would be helpful in organizing the data
Great suggestion and would suit our use case too (huge single board with groups of columns pertaining to certain tasks.
Was looking to use linked boards to alleviate the pain of ‘views’ (and the poor picker for named views - few views can be shown without hitting ‘show more’, not great once you start getting into 10 or more views)
Linked boards is a powerful feature but prone to user error/hesitancy when linking boards and pulling-in linked and 2-way columns. You also have to switch between boards, rather than having the info in one ‘master board’
Came here to see if anything like this exists within Monday. It seems like this idea of grouping columns has not been added into the product. Michael’s example above is exactly what we are looking to do. If anyone has updates or ideas to achieve this in the current product - I would really appreciate it.
