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What's New in Wrike – April 2025

Our April edition of What's New in Wrike covers updates for Dashboards, Custom Item Types, Databases, mobile apps, and more.

Dashboards - Workflow Metrics

Available on Pinnacle plans

We have introduced Workflow Metrics that give you insights into work history by tracking how long tasks and projects remain in specific statuses. This helps you identify bottlenecks across projects, assignees, or item types.

This update includes:

  • Total, Maximum, and Average time spent in each status

  • Status changes tracking

  • New filters and dimensions for better data analysis

  • Three new templates: Interrupted Workflows, Average Status Times, and Total Time Active

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For more information, check out the dedicated Community Post and Help Center article.

Custom Item Types - Hide More fields

Available on Business and Enterprise plans

Account and space admins can now completely hide all location-based custom fields in Custom Item Types (CITs), ensuring only the fields defined by your CIT are visible. This eliminates the clutter of the More Fields section and creates a cleaner interface.

Please note that this section is visible by default but can be adjusted in settings.

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Profile View - View User Attributes and Skills

Available for Pinnacle Plan

Comprehensive user information is now accessible through the enhanced extended user card functionality. The full profile view now seamlessly integrates custom field data from user profiles, enabling efficient access to critical team member attributes. The solution provides instant visibility into colleagues' teams, locations, skills, and other essential characteristics, streamlining organizational awareness through a simple hover or click interaction followed by selecting View full profile.

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Databases - Field Type Conversion

Available for Pinnacle Plan

Seamless field type conversion capabilities are now available in Databases, empowering users to reconfigure database field properties with unprecedented flexibility. This powerful enhancement enables effortless transformation between virtually all field types through an intuitive context menu interface, accessible directly from the field header via the "Change Field Settings" option. Take a look at our dedicated Help Center article for more details and instructions.

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Databases - Formulas for Enhanced Calculations

Available on Enterprise Pinnacle plans

Databases now supports formula fields within databases, using Wrike's familiar formula syntax for consistent and powerful data computation.

With formula capabilities, you can:

  • Automatically calculate equipment utilization metrics

  • Track vendor performance scores

  • Compute service delivery metrics without relying on external spreadsheets

Here are some Implementation examples:

  • Manufacturing: Calculate maintenance-to-replacement cost ratios

  • Professional Services: Compute service profitability metrics

  • Marketing: Generate asset completion percentages based on task status

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Here's a Help Center article with more details.

Databases - Databases Fields in Wrike Analyze

Available on Enterprise Pinnacle plans

You can now include Databases information in Wrike Analyze reports, enabling more comprehensive data-driven insights.

This integration allows you to:

  • Build reports with Databases link fields

  • Display mirror field values as text in reports

This integration empowers new reporting scenarios, such as grouping tasks by client categories and analyzing projects by equipment types using centralized Databases data.

Wrike Mobile (iOS/Android) - New Updates

Available on all Wrike plans

We've expanded functionality in our mobile application to enhance your on-the-go workflow:

  • Table View Grouping: Table View on mobile now displays with the same grouping as your desktop version. View your tasks grouped by Status, Assignee, or any other field, making it easier to stay organized while mobile.

  • Space Level Tools: Access your Calendars and Dashboards directly from the Spaces where you created them. Simply navigate to Spaces → Tap the arrow beside the Space name to expand the menu → find Tools below Space overview.

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Slack Integration - Inbox Notifications Re-enabled

Available on all Wrike plans

After evaluating user feedback on the sunsetting of Slack inbox notifications, we've re-enabled this feature. Users can now receive Wrike Inbox notifications via Slack once again, keeping teams connected across platforms.

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