Display if child items have their own child items
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Nicholas Proulx
It would be helpful to see if a child item contains an additional level of items inside.
For example, some projects (cards) are too small to warrant the use of dependencies but we still like to use child items to list the tasks that a user should complete inside the project and track the progression as they get marked completed. But those tasks might contains additional sub-tasks listed as child items inside and there is currently no easy way to even know that they might exist.
Example :
Project A (Card)
→ 3D modelling (Child item)
→ Select hardware (Sub Child items)
→ Create part models
→ Create assembly
There is a couple of way I see to address this.
The first one could be to add an icon beside the child item, both in the board and card views. This would simply let the users know that more information is included inside and they can access it if needed, while the manager could see the progress at a glance.
There might also be an option to further develop the child items in the board view but I can see how this could become quite busy visually.. (see mockup attached !)
The second might be to allow multiple "lists" of child items so that all the information can be found on one single card. Each list would have it's own title and group of child items. The board view would then probably look similar to the previous example with all task and sub-task expanded under the card.
Vidas
We are considering to include full depth of child items in item details. Just like you can see all levels in List or Gantt view. But this can also complicate things for simpler use cases. So a bit in a limbo what is the right value/complexity ratio here. Now regarding child items under Kanban card - the most concerning option since it takes even more horizontal space from this limited single line of text.
Should we make child items wrapped and multiline instead so that the whole title fits?
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Nicholas Proulx
Vidas I understand your concern about horizontal space. The way we've been using it, those items have very short names, so this issue didn't come to mind. I do feel that adding an icon at the end of the line would not limit the text length that much, but I get that other users might have different information they want to highlight there (like tags or assignees).
My feeling about wrapped text would be similar to yours. I feel this could greatly limit the number of cards we can see on screen, as they will take up more vertical space.
Having full depth of information in item details sounds good to me. At least at that point you are focusing on a single task/project so I feel like it's acceptable to need to scroll down to see all information.
Also this might all be solved with a project entity like you posted earlier, maybe it's just a different way to plan which works better with the current interface !