DO NOT Remove List View

Hi Gregory W Gulley, welcome to the Community! First of all, I'd like to say a big thank you for sharing your feedback with us. Please rest assured that it will be passed on to our team shortly. 

While we are planning to sunset List view, we're bringing more functionality to the New Table view, which is really a combination of List and classic Table. For example, it's now possible to mass edit tasks and projects in the New Table (it wasn't possible in the classic Table). 

Having said that, we strive to make sure the transition is smooth. Could you please share more details on what you like about the List view so I could provide some recommendations? 

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Ok, apologies for the delayed response. I have tried multiple times to submit a comment, but the page repeatedly freezes up and disallows copying my text before ultimately crashing. I have typed these in another application in order to (hopefully) get them posted.

Problems with New Table view:

1. Row number column – unneeded and seemingly persistent. I do not need any additional diminishment of available real estate width for managing the tasks, which this column needlessly does. If it has to be there, please make it possible to hide it.
2. Assignee now gets a whole column? Unnecessary and, again, eats up page width where the previous format using the icon was absolutely sufficient. Please bring that back and remove the assignee column or at least make it hideable.
3. All the extraneous column width makes task titles severely truncated… harder to see what we’re looking at.
4. Lack of customization to show/hide unneeded columns is a huge issue, especially for those of us working on a laptop, where screen real estate is scarce to begin with. It’s ok when in a fixed location, but try using new table view on a 15” laptop when traveling… it’s a dreadful UX.

Lastly, I am curious as to the rationale for eliminating two perfectly usable views and attempting to meld them into one? It is difficult to imagine a reason that is worth disabling options for users.

Thanks for getting back to me. I hope the feedback makes its way to open ears & minds who can improve on some of these significant feature omissions in the new view. If we have no option but to accept the coming change, it’d be great to be able to continue to do our jobs as efficiently after the change as we were able to prior.

Hi Gregory, I agree qith you in general, but I have to say that it is acually possible to hide any colums, exept index and name, so you should be able to hide the assignee column! The advandage of this colums is that you can use it for sorting and for edititing and copying, so I really like it. But the appearance like in the list view should stay available!

It would be better if we could move the index column. It is of no use to me and simply gets in the way.

Also, I cannot seem to select date ranges using the due date column.

And, it seems the ability to select a group of tasks and change all their statuses at once is no longer present.

Thanks a lot for jumping in Florian Kislich 🤗

Gregory W Gulley Thanks for providing more context! Let me address your points 👇

1. You're right it's not possible to move or hide the Row number column, but it's actually needed for the mass actions you mention in your last comments - you can hover your mouse over them and you'll see a checkbox. If you click on it, you'll see the available mass editing options, including mass editing statuses:

2. The assignee field can be removed using the "Fields" menu:

Also, you can narrow the column to just display the profile image, and the table will remember the state, which means the next time you open it, the width of the column will be as you set it up previously:

3. Same goes with any other columns (= fields) - you can adjust their size.

4. Any fields can be hidden through the "Fields" menu:

I hope this is helpful, but please let me know if you have any additional feedback or questions 🙌

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Could you explain the intended benefit of the index column, please? It adds clutter, both visually as well as reducing space on smaller screens. This view might be workable, if the index was gone and using it didn't require me to do more work to achieve what I already have - a clean, easy-to-view workspace for organizing projects. Whenever a new project is created using the new view, it is immediately more difficult to see the project components and set dates/assign tasks.

Overall, this view is simply too cluttered. The list view is clean and easy to work with. Why fix something that isn't broken? Please leave a good thing alone. :)

The new view makes project management more difficult. The previous view was clean, simple, and easy to understand. The new view is cluttered and causing frustration when trying to set up new projects and makes it difficult to find what you are looking for when returning to projects. Please leave list view alone! 

If I wanted to work in an excel spreadsheet I would... 

Hi folks, thank you for your feedback, we appreciate it!

Could you please show examples of when you find the Table view cluttered? I'm asking because you can disable most of the columns if you want to and save the view so that every time you open that space, project, or folder, it will be the same setting. Thanks! 

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I think Gregory Gulley has done a good job of explaining the clutter and there are added steps that need to be taken to adjust our preferences, whereas the list view does not require the extra effort. And not being able to delete the rows in order to accomplish a mass edit option equals an added column that can't be removed. I'd be interested to know what benefits outweigh this change vs. the experience we're having has users. Thanks!

Sheri and Gregory have pretty much said it all. My only add is that the grid lines add to the clutter.

Lisa The issue is, that adjustments have to be made. While it is a nuisance for us project managers to do these adjustments, it becomes an issue for our collaboraters. Our designers, copywriters and editors are easily confused by such fundamental changes and the ease and standardized look of List View is what always helped in supporting them. List view is the same on all Desktop devices, it has no more than the most necessary information and the contents are easily understood visually. 

Example: Almost everyone on our team who was introduced to Table View was confused on how to access a project in project view in the new Table View and had issues in understanding the logic behind this. 

Getting these type of collaborators started in Table View and maintaing their views will just increase workload for Wrike Admins. 

Also, a table layout with visible rows and columns automatically seems to be more cluttered than the ultra clean rows  of list view. (Name | Icon | Date with no visual separators, no extra features or other fuss, but with auto width). 

This!!! 👆

Strongly Agree with Ralph!

Thanks a lot for the additional detail here, folks! Our team is keeping a close eye on this feedback as they plan more enhancements for the Table view. 

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I'm agreeing with all the comments from the Wrike Community Users. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE LIST VIEW. Table view is cluttered and if I wanted table view I would use SmartSheets and we very much steered away from using that as our solution for a reason.

I've been looking into replacing the List View with a customized Table view for a while in our account.  There are several features that are either missing in the Table view or much more difficult vs the List:

- Table view does not reflect color coding of projects

- Table view does not collapse horizontally when a task details are open, covering many of the columns.  The List view shrinks columns responsively to maximize horizontal space.

- In the list view, I can simply right-click a task and directly set a task's importance.  In the table view I have to add an additional column.  Also, in the list view, importance is prominently shown as an icon next to the task description rather than a separate (and excessively wide) column.

- In the list view, I can right-click a task and directly set it as a milestone.  This isn't possible in the Table view.  Only option is to add an end date column and clear it (not intuitive or quick)

I'm very hesitant to consider the Table view as a realistic replacement until it can match both the functionality and horizontal space efficiency of the List.

Agree with all of this. Losing list view will SIGNIFICANTLY impact how our team uses Wrike, and this is very discouraging.

Thank you, everyone, for the feedback! I will forward it to our product team as they work on improving the Table view. 👍🏽

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Basudha Sakshyarika, Alternatively, please also submit that keeping List View is a desired and requested feature that is beneficial instead of struggling to make Table View fit like a square peg into a round hole. Why can we not have both view options?

Sure, I will let the team know! Gregory W Gulley , thank you! 👍🏽

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I agree with many of the comments shared earlier. The table view makes managing projects more difficult. The list view is clean, simple, and easy to navigate, while the table view feels cluttered and adds frustration when setting up new projects. Please consider keeping the list view as it was—it worked well and supported efficiency!

NOTE: A quick search in the community forums for Wrike reveal over a half dozen separate threads dedicated to requesting, pleading, or strongly encouraging the company to keep List View - dating back to the initial announcement of plans to phase it out in early 2023. Bearing this in mind, (have you decided or) would you reconsider not phasing it out, please?

Please keep list view. I HATE table view- makes it difficult to stay on task, since I have bad peripheral vision and am used to working off of lists. I spend many hours in Excel and prefer not to manage tasks this way also. 

In total agreement with Gregory's and Tami's new comments. I don't understand why we aren't being heard - PLEASE reconsider keeping the list view as an option. 

PLEASE - I beg of you - do not remove List View as an option! I will have a full on revolt in my hands from our users... 

While the Table View has a lot of great strengths and flexibility for users who can/will take advantage of them - it is not the right fit for the majority of our users. Switching to list view for them feels like having to learn a new piece of software and we don't have capacity to move to another tool right now -- we are stretched too thin.

We've been struggling to keep up with the changes on Dashboards and the issues those changes have created for mostly mobile users. Search result changes have created issues for us due to lost some functions. I know it probably seems very slow of us to not be able to keep up and learn the tools as you push them out -- but trying to keep up with the changes has been very difficult. When updates are pushed out - First, the admins have to learn how to use the new/updated tool. Then, the admin has to figure out how to best translate it / use it for the team. This can require a testing phase with a few users. Then, the entire team needs to be trained. This process can take months and then even more months for our whole team to finally learn and adjust to the changes. And before that process is done -- more changes are made to the tool.

I know it seems silly to be complaining about updates -- but some of these updates make significant changes to how we use the tool / how people do their job. That combined with the many other changes and updates from all the other aspects of one's job really piles up and gets frustrating.

We use this tool to manage projects for our teams. The majority of users don't create tasks / adjust layouts / set up projects / create custom dashboards / etc. They are not Wrike wizards. The majority log in to see their task list and mark their task complete. That's it. They have plenty of other things to worry about. Figuring out how to use the same software every few months over and over again is frustrating. 

It's only admins & some managers who take advantage of table views / reports / etc.

Please - have mercy. Give us List View.

I agree with everything everyone has said!! I have been trying to use table view to prepare for the transition and it does not give me what I need to work efficiently.

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE AWAY LIST VIEW!!!

Hi everyone! 
Please see the latest update in this post.

The change is that we do understand the challenge and we've decided to extend the gradual sunset to June 30, 2025. This extension provides you with more time to adjust, and we encourage you to explore the functionalities of the Table view.

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Thank you, Lisa. Has your team enabled the ability to hide the number column yet? That is one of the biggest drawbacks of the new view. All the column width taken up by things not needed is a large contributor to the cluttered look and feel of the new view vs. List view. If every column was able to be hidden/unhidden, the Table view would then be a more useful option, though still not as good as List view. Currently, it ends up looking like a truncated spreadsheet, unless you're on a large display and can manually spread things out.

Hi Lisa,

While an extension is appreciated, I feel like our complaints are falling on deaf ears. It is clear list view is valuable to many of your clients, yet Wrike is still trying to push a new view on clients that does not fit their needs. It actually hinders us getting work done. If Wrike is determined to launch table view, could it not be an additional view? Why remove functionality that is useful to your clients?

PLEASE reconsider.