Rather than having a fixed width on the draggable task boxes, it would be very useful to be able to have a way to resize the boxes. This would solve an issue where longer task titles are being truncated and hurting readability.
by: Seth R. | over a year ago | Tracking
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All our users are asking for this feature. It would be really helpful to be able to either specify the desired size for task boxes, or when resizing the table columns have the task boxes get wider rather than stay the same size.
All our 40+ users are asking for this. The usability of the task/test board would go up if more text could be displayed. For some tasks displaying only 13 characters (~2 words) is just not enough to explain exactly what the task is and is not. The workaround is to mouse over each task and search for the "correct" one - which takes time and distracts the daily scrum meeting. Please give the admin or user control on how many characters are displayed; alternatively, tie the width of the task to the re-sizable task board columns.
I think that individual task boxes should auto resize so that all titles are always visible in full, but boxes with shorter titles take less space. Optionally, there could be an option for maximum title length.
Two lines for the title would be great. Wider would be nice as well. Both would be fantastic. Make it configurable, make it automatic, make it dynamic, I don't care which. Just make it so! :-)
It would also be really helpful if all the names of people assigned to a task are shown
I think if you just has a choice of displaying 1,2 or 3 lines that wrap around to the column width, that would be great. Maybe have a dropdown in the dashboard to change it on they fly? Also it seems that if you widen the column, the task should widen with it, oddly it seems this does not work.
I also see it as pretty ineffective when you have to mouse over just to understand which story we are talking about during the daily scrum or planning meetings. The task boxes need to be able to show at least a few lines of the title - it's our responsibility to keep the length of the titles from being too long. But only showing barely two works is not helpful at all. I like the ability to be able to resize the columns - let's get the boxes to follow. Maybe just provide a few levels of detail that can be configured so that task boxes are either minimal (like now), moderate, or detailed.
Most of our users don't use the taskboard because of this issue.
This would be good to have for us as well
The Storyboard page uses liquid layouts, which is super. Please remove the hard-coded column widths in the task and test pages. People with big monitors should be able to actually read what's in the subtasks and tests.
This UI nastiness is a usability dealkiller for our team.
Release 9.3 allows the task (and test) cards to wrap to a second line, so you can now see more of that the title there on the board. We look forward to your feedback and further suggestions.