Filter Tasks being in multiple Folders / having specified Tags

Having folders A and B and some tasks in A, some in B and some in A and B at the same time. Now I want to filter tasks being in folder A AND B. 

When using folders like tags it is important to be able to filter tasks having multiple tags like Evernote can.

Upvote 34
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos
17 comentarios
Avatar
Stephanie Westbrook

Hi Radovan! Thanks for sharing this here. I wanted to mention search filters, they won't work in all cases, but they'll at least let you filter for tasks that are tagged in two Folder locations. To use search filters to find tasks in Folder A and B:

  1.  Select Folder A and stay in, or switch to, the List View.
  2. In the Search bar at the top of the Workspace type "folder:B" and wait for a dropdown to appear. At the bottom of that dropdown select the 'Search in current folder' option. This keeps you in your currently selected folder and adds a filter that limits the tasks to those located (i.e. cross-tagged) into both A and B
  3. Apply any remaining filters you need.

When you're doing this, just make sure you apply the folder: search command before applying any other filters. From here you can go ahead and create a Dashboard widget, so that you can monitor tasks that are cross tagged in the selected locations, without having to continually apply filters. I know this isn't an exact fix for your situation, but hopefully it at least helps in cases when you need to filter for tasks tagged in two Folders. 

2
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Not being able to use advanced filtering with multiple AND/OR & NOT conditions is quite a pain. Any plan to enable such functionality? 

12
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Agree, being able to apply multiple folder search is very much needed. Ideally being able to create advanced searches similar to something like JIRA which does a great job of it.

2
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Moreover if folders have spaces in it, you can't search those folders.

The work around is to duplicate folders, which leads to confusion and various problems.

1
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos
Avatar
Anastasia

Hi everyone! I wanted to thank you for sharing all of this valuable feedback about the search functionality. It's important to hear about the types of search parameters which would be useful for you, and it's great to see all of these fantastic ideas here.

@Owen, I have some good news :) It's possible to search for Folders with spaces in their names by using quotation marks in the search query. For example: folder:"Folder One". Hope this helps! 

0
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Looks like Wrike does in fact support multiple folder search, space delimitated.

`folder:Bug folder:"Mobile Platform"` and then clicking `Search within current folder` will give you the results you are looking for.

If you already have a folder search and go to add another, it will remove the previous one. Annoying but at least the functionality is there such that you can do the search multi folder search.

Be nice to add the folder search to the filter ui.

1
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Owen, the search is still quite limited. You can't do custom searches with AND/OR & NOT conditions (and parentheses support). For example "(folder:A AND folder:B AND notin:C) OR folder:D".

2
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Agree, all added filter are only using AND. Be nice to setup more complex queries like you've pointed out.

2
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Honestly the process used here for 'Tagging' is a pain and  limits the search and filter options available.

Why not just use a virtual folders system like everyone else does, its easier and more efficient to tag and search.

This system is so cumbersome.

I've just started looking at 'Wrike' and don't mind it, but this is a bit too much of a pain ,i'm considering looking elsewhere.

'Tags' are not only used to connect tasks with each other but to group them under a common category label, your system doesn't allow this.

What your system does is to effectively make copies of an existing task and paste it into other folders where it has an association with the tasks, or projects. I understand how this would be useful in relation to the individual projects, but it prevents the individual tasks being grouped together under a common category or label , making searching for data under these commonalities a task requiring excessive time , knowledge and skill, mot likely not available to the average user, unless of cause they are using your system for software development, in which case they will have the knowledge and skill , but i'm sure it will still be irritating.

The only way to have something similar would be to create a folder called 'Tags', populate it with new folders using Names that categorize the tasks.

 

0
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos
Avatar
Stephanie Westbrook

Hi Steve, thanks for reaching out! First, just wanted to quickly go over how tags work. When you "tag" a task into multiple Folders or Projects, you're actually adding the same task to each Folder/Project. Essentially you're storing one task in multiple locations. So no matter where you access the task from, you'll always be editing the same task. 
 
From there, there are different ways to groups tasks within Wrike so that you can later find tasks from within a certain group. If you're using Folders as tags, I think Reports and custom widgets on Dashboards may help. Reports (a Business/Enterprise feature) would let you pull tasks from across different Folders and Projects and pull them into one view. Dashboards (available on Professional accounts and above) let you create filtered list of tasks from within a particular set of Folders/Projects. The list automatically updates so that you always see tasks which meet the filter criteria you selected. 
 
Lastly, I wanted to mention Custom Fields. You can use these to add your own tagging system to tags and then run Reports based on those tags, or create Dashboard widgets based on those fields.
 
If you could tell me a little more about what you're looking to do with tags we can talk through which option might be best for you!
0
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Given how core to Wrike folders are, it was really surprising to me that this is not already possible in Wrike...

2
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Another use case:

  • Folder A
  • Multiple other folders that are not subfolders of A
  • Filtering needed: Get all tasks that are tagged with A, but not tagged with any other folder (which are not subfolders of A)... without listing them (since there are to many for that to be feasable).
3
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Really just want to emphasize what Blaž Dakskobler has already mentioned:

Wrike must allow us to do:

"custom searches with AND/OR & NOT conditions (and parentheses support)"

The ability to search within a folder is not good enough in the long run!

2
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

I'm very new to Wrike and I like the flexibility and the elegance of the folders/projects based model.

Anyway, I agree with most of the people contributing to this thread that the initial enthusiasm is greatly decreasing when you need to use tags effectively in the real world. Any suggestion to "flatten" the project structure sounds like a recommendation to don't use Wrike at its best.

Please, try to add filtering by tag in the standard filter panel. This would close the loop and make Wrike effectively ahead of any other similar systems. There already is part of this functionality using the "folder:XX" command in the search bar, it may be not so difficult to improve it a little bit 😀

1
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos
Avatar
Stephen

Welcome to the Community Marco. Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, we greatly appreciate it and our Product Team constantly review posts in the Community for feedback.

We appreciate this particular feedback around search commands. Our Product Team is already aware of this post so if/when I have any new information to share I'll post back 👍

Looking forward to hearing more from you here!

1
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Other use case:

Structure:

+ Project_A

|----Subproject1

|----Subproject2

 

I want a operator that applies on children.

--> I want to be able to filter out tasks that are in Subproject1 and Subproject2  with something like  "NOT_IN_CHILD_OF Project_A"

0
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Thomas G, if I'm understanding you correctly, you just want to see tasks that are Project_A without any subfolders? If so, Wrike does this to a limited degree in the project/folder menu.

- Click on a Project_A in the sidebar
- Use "List" or "Board" view
- Click the "3 stacked dots" at the top right of the view
- Option "Hide Subfolders" or "View Subfolders"

This which will effectively filter out tasks that are or are not tagged with any subfolders of Project_A. That's about all it does though. Hope it helps!

1
👍 Spot On 💡 Innovative Approach 💪 Stellar Advice ✅ Solved 🪄 Remove Kudos

Folllowing List for Post: Filter Tasks being in multiple Folders / having specified Tags
[this list is visible for admins and agents only]

Arriba
Didn’t find what you were looking for? Write new post