I’m happy to see that the new Mirror column solves some issues that I expressed in the past, but the one thing that’s keeping me from being able to use it is the fact that you have to explicitly choose every individual pulse from the other board in order to roll up something like budget or time.
Imagine a high/low-level board scenario, where the high-level board has a pulse-per-project, and there is a low-level board per project. You Link each respective board, then mirror & roll up the “Hours” column from the low level project board into a “Total Hours” column in the project pulse on the high-level board.
The issue here is that low-level boards are constantly changing. Employees have to add new tasks to them all the time, and it’s impossible and impractical to remember to go back into the high-level board and update the mirror column settings by selecting all of those new pulses, so the roll-up is accurate.
Feature Request: In addition to selecting individual pulses, can we please have “Entire Board” or “Group A”, “Group B” as selectable options in the mirror column settings? That way, we can add/remove tasks from the low-level board freely, and we know that the rollup is the sum of ALL of the tasks of interest, not just the ones that we remembered to select . This is especially dangerous if we’re using this roll-up to bill clients, where the total is at a high risk of being inaccurate all the time.
I really don’t understand how such simple spreadsheet functionality is missing on this platform. I was convinced to utilize this by an employee, but I’m having second (third, and fourth) thoughts on mobilizing to something else entirely. I’m unable to get high-level roll-ups without exporting all projects to excel and performing it myself. Simple things like summations utilized to calculate margins is child’s play and shouldn’t be difficult to add in.
I upvoted this request as there is a real need to link all items in an entire group to a mirror / link combi. I thought the multi board link would help, but currently a mirror is not supported on a multi board link (if there is more than 1 board linked). Needless to say that if it will be possible to link to all items in a group that it should “dynamic”, i.e when users adds / deletes items in that group in the detailed board it should be reflected in the mirror.
Because I really needed this I developed a monday apps with some features (recipes) that can be used on the detailed board to report back to a single master. The relationship between the detailed boards and the items in the master board is based on an “ID” that should be present in the detailed board title in brackets, like [PR-0001] and in the master there is a column that contains PR-0001.
With that I am reporting status, number and timeline columns form a give group in the detailed board to a single cell in the master. I am planning to extend this to Time Tracker column. If there are more columns you can think of, let me know. To put it in pictures:
It look like this is enabled as i can see some mirrored columns from different boards.
Looks like it was released. But its not official… and you cannot select by board/group
. This is especially dangerous if we’re using this roll-up to bill clients, where the total is at a high risk of being inaccurate all the time.
really-really much needed this one!
