Mirrored/Matching Boards

My suggestion is to have the ability to create a ‘mirrored board’ which allows for the Items to remain the same across all boards but the columns and groups to be able to be different.

Often I find that I want to relate lots of different information which is in different workspaces and departments to the same set of ‘Items’. (i.e. ‘Markets’ we serve) However, as we relate a lot of information across multiple departments this can lead to this board/main table becoming extremely cluttered with endless columns. If we want to separate it out we have to either put in views (which still make the main table super busy) or create automations to create the Item in other places if created in the central. This not so hard in of itself but the problem is it isn’t backwards active, meaning if someone deletes the data in a “sub board” it deletes it in the primary board as well. It also requires a lot of automation creation and mending when they break. Matching these 2 becomes difficult to be kept up-to-date.

Example of how this could be used:

  • The company has the main board with a list of the locations we own.
  • Operations has a mirrored board and they keep information related to the leases and status of the location.
  • HR has a mirrored board and they keep information on staff counts at each location.

This is really like having the ‘views’ of a board in different workspaces and able to relate the information to different departments or areas.

You could try creating a dashboard with a docked table widget, then customising which columns to show in the widget settings.

I don’t think this would allow for you to make custom groupings though, but might still be helpful.