[From Wrike] The Art of Naming Conventions ๐ก
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- 01-Folder name
- 02-Folder name
- 03-Folder name
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Stephanie Westbrook Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
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We use the format of action verb + project name + MM.DD.YY...do you think it would be better to do MM.DD.YY + action verb + project name?ย
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Any tips?
This is great. Naming conventions has been one of my biggest soapboxes over the years as it seems to be overlooked, under developed, and under enforced. I have been following some of the ideas above for years and seems to work best for me.
Cool, thanks for sharing, Dave Wrightย ๐ If you ever decide to let the Community know how you're doing that in more detail, that would be awesome!ย
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Hi Wrikesters,
We have implemented a naming convention for our 'parent/top' level projects and a suggested format for our 'sub' projects.ย
We use 'Org Unit Abbreviation'-'Project category abbreviation'-Descriptive, concise project nameย for parent projects, and [short parent project name] Sub-project name for our subprojects.
We used to also add the short project name as a task prefix but are rethinking this now as when you're looking at tasks in dashboards and reports, if the prefix is not very short you don't actually see the task name (you only see the prefix).
Do other users/teams have ideas and suggestions around sub-project and task names/prefixes?ย
Hi Liam McGuigan, welcome to the Community! ๐คย
When you're using dashboards, you can enable the widgets to show parent folders or projects so that it's immediately visible to which project the task belongs:
In reports, it's possible to structure tasks hierarchically so that it's visible to with project they belong (it can also be seen if you enable the project or folder field):
Can this help?ย
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