[Status: Launched ๐] Order of custom fields in the folder/project/task view
When viewing details of folder/project/task custom fields are displayed ordering them alphabetically. Such an order most of the times is not logical. For example fields starting with "%" will be displayed before any field starting with a normal letter.
For example the fields "Planned Cost", "Actual Cost", "%Cost Allocated", "Planned Man-Effort", "Actual Man-Effort", "%of Man-Effort Spent" will be displayed in the order:
%Cost Allocated
%of Man-Effort Spent
Actual Cost
Actual Man-Effort
Planned Cost
Planned Man-Effort
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It would more logical to be displayed in this order:
Planned Cost
Actual Cost
%Cost Allocated
Planned Man-Effort
Actual Man-Effort
%of Man-Effort Spent
or in this order:ย
Planned Cost
Planned Man-Effort
Actual Cost
Actual Man-Effort
%Cost Allocated
%of Man-Effort Spent
ย
Please implement a feature to arrange custom fields manually and inherit it to the hierarchy below.
Welcome to the Community Jair McBain! We appreciate your detailed feedback!ย
Could you please share why using custom item types and arranging the order of custom fields the way you want doesn't work for your team?ย
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Hello Rohan V,
For our team we would like to have a custom order for the custom fields for our team to easily fill out for reporting purposes. Currently we put a | character in front of the fields that a PM needs to fill out/ review each week for each project that is being reported on. It would be easier to group all of the fields pertaining to status reporting together in the custom fields list so that the team knows exactly which fields they need to fill out instead of searching by each field name or a character. Otherwise, the PM's would have to remember all the fields to fill out and take the time to search them each time when it could just be a quick hit list.ย
Another workaround is to add emojis before the text in the custom field, like this: ๐ Marketing 1, ๐ Marketing 2, ๐กProduction 1, ๐กProduction 2. This approach can make it easier to recognize the relevant custom fields.
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For our use case, it would be really useful to be able to group custom fields together, as well as order them. This could have the added benefit of just revealing a set of custom fields on a task, rather than them all. I.e. instead of the "More fields" link you could have,
ย ย Category 1 fields
ย ย Category 2 fields
etc.
Hi Ben Gladwyn ๐
Thatโs a good suggestion! Thanks for sharing. Weโll provide an update if there are any developments in this area ๐
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Is there any chance of this becoming reality?ย
Update on this please? Alphabetical does not work for us - we need to be able to custom sort the order - would also be useful if there was a more obvious way to determine where a field is from.Has wrike considered colour coding options for boxes?
Adding another upvote for this, please!ย
Hi folks, Brad Boswell, Hannah , and Mary Flatley! ๐๐ผ Thanks for all the feedback. As suggested earlier, one solution is to use Custom Item Types (CIT), which allow you to specify which fields are visible and determine the order of their appearance.
Have you had a chance to work with this and arrange the custom fields in the order you want? If yes, please share your thoughts on it. ๐
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CIT is not a viable option for us. From a workflow perspective, the fields need to be customizable and arranged in an order that makes sense for how we work. Right now, we have multiple duplicate fields across different spaces, and itโs very difficult to tell which field belongs to which space. It would be far more efficient if we could reorder fields or use visual identifiersโsuch as color-coding by spaceโto show where a field primarily relates.
This functionality appears to have existed before, and many users have been requesting its return since around 2020. Sometimes itโs these fundamental usability features that matter most, because new functionality isnโt useful if the basicsโlike ordering and organizing fieldsโare missing.
Makes sense, Hannah. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I will send this across to our Product team for consideration. ๐๐ฝ
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New Wrike user here. I really am enjoying using Wrike for project management. I just need the basic task management. I've just created my entire team's roadmap using projects and tasks and would like to reorder the fields on the task.ย
I'm surprised that this goes back almost five years and also that it's marked "launched" because the core problem isn't solved, but a workaround using a different feature is. I'm a +1 to having this feature prioritized; it's super helpful for our stakeholders to be able to see the most critical information first when drilling into an item.
Welcome to the Wrike Community, Jed, and thank you for your feedback. We will continue to share all feedback under this post with our product team and will keep you in the loop if there are any updates. ๐๐๐ฝ
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Commenting to request that this support be added for non-custom item types, as being able to organize custom fields on standard item types would make reviewing high level information much simpler.ย