Me too, it would be really useful
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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.
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Hi everyone,
I’m Katerina from Stiltsoft.
Please join our discussion here: How do you work with tables in monday?
We’ll be very glad to know more about your use cases and needs.
Hi guys,
Our company develops the Smart Spreadsheet for monday app - hope it will help you to use Excel-like features right on monday.com platform.
You’ll be able to import/export your data (and boards with items as well) and work with it as a fully functional spreadsheet (cell formulas, conditional formatting, aggregated tables, etc.) in one place.
Best regards,
Katerina Kovriga
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I am currently heading up the onboarding of our Marketing/Design department on Monday. We have been using the project management tool to plan our campaigns and feed jobs into the designers.
Our boards contain jobs/projects that are sequentially numbered. For each job we have columns for…
- Start date - Date
- End date - Date
- Owner - Person
- Overall status - Status
- Designer - Person
- Type (eg. Social, literature, video) - Status
- Briefing doc - File
- Brief - Status
- Briefed date - Date
- Content - Status
- Design (Which stage the assets are eg. With freelancer, for review, amends) - Status
- Design deadline - Date
- Approval (Which stakeholder the job is with) - Status
- Final (eg. Published, sent to print) - Status
- Tags (So we can tag a job with a product) - Tags
- Channel (eg. eShot, Twitter, LinkedIn) - Status
- Published date - Date
- Sent to/Impressions - Number
- Opened/Engagements - Number
- Bounced - Number
- Clicked - Number
- Budget cost - Number
- Invoice - Number
As you can see there are loads of columns for each job. It would be good to be able to group these so that they can be minimised if not required. eg. The only jobs that need the range of columns Channel > Clicked are the social/eShot jobs.
All of the briefing columns could be grouped together, the ones for the design department, the ones regarding money. I see it looking like when you have a deadline mode set and the grey box is around the columns.
The impact of the lack of a grouping feature is that our board is very wide. Great for me as a designer as I have a big screen but not for the Marketers on their laptops. Also visually it is a lot of data to take in. You become blind to what you need to focus on.
I would love you to consider this feature.
In the absence of column grouping, could you hide the columns not required and save it as a view named “Marketing” so they only see what they need to see on any given board?
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BUMPPPPP This would be a great feature to add.
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We should be able to change how we group the items easily, so my suggestion would be that should be able to select which column will set my groups.
For example, if I have two status columns “Status 1” that records “Done” “In Progress” “Stuck” and another column “Status 2” that records the Team that’s in charge of the item, and it would be great to have two views of the same table, 1 grouped by “Status 1” and another one by “Status 2”.
You don’t know how many times I have been asked by the CEO “Can you show me this same table but grouped by XXXXX??” and I just can’t change it, I could filter many times and print and then go and show it but is not practical at all.
We should be able to group by any column we have!
I understand that this might change how the data is structured within monday, because the groups data is going to be as any other column, but it will simplify everything, even automations.
My post should not be here… I want a diferent feature.
I want to be able to “group elements” dinamicaly, not columns.
Please implement this, this would massively help
My dream feature😂
Hi there,
I was looking for something similar and I found out this post.
Is there any third part app that solves this problem?
Thanks 
We should be able to change how we group the items easily, so my suggestion would be that should be able to select which column will set my groups.
For example, if I have two status columns “Status 1” that records “Done” “In Progress” “Stuck” and another column “Status 2” that records the Team that’s in charge of the item, and it would be great to have two views of the same table, 1 grouped by “Status 1” and another one by “Status 2”.
You don’t know how many times I have been asked by the CEO “Can you show me this same table but grouped by XXXXX??” and I just can’t change it, I could filter many times and print and then go and show it but is not practical at all.
We should be able to group by any column we have!
I understand that this might change how the data is structured within monday, because the groups data is going to be as any other column, but it will simplify everything, even automations.
My boards contact a lot of data in various columns. I don’t need to view all data at all times.
It would be helpful if like in excel I could group a number of columns - eg. 3 columns - Colour, size and brand columns into a ‘group’ Variations.
This could be expanded or minimised as needed to hide or show the data and reduce the scrolling across the screen through many differing columns.
Is it possible to group a board by another board column.
EG. instead of each group being a month. I want to switch it to group by status etc or any other column
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Hi everyone!
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. We’ve discussed your request to add a capability to. group columns together with the development team and while they understand the importance of this feature for many of our customers, this feature is not in our upcoming roadmap.
We’re currently focused on improving other key areas of our platform to bring the most impact to the most people.Every quarter, we need to make difficult decisions about how we prioritize building new features, improving old ones, and ensuring overall platform quality. While our team does not plan to develop this feature in our upcoming roadmap, it is possible that the team consider developing this feature in the future I will let you know of any changes.
To learn more about what it means when a feature is not on roadmap, read this post.