Display and edit two projects on one board
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	• JAufrecht
	Jun 12 2015, 11:51 PM

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(Filed to capture for TPG et al discussion. Not ready for implementation)

Situation:
A Phabricator Project board allows a task to be dragged and dropped across different columns. This is essentially a way to edit one enumerated dimension of many tasks at once. It would be even more useful to be able to edit two enumerated dimensions at once, by dragging and dropping tasks on a grid of two different projects/column sets, with one project vertical (project column equals screen column) and the other horizonal (project column = screen row).

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Use case: Card mapping a backlog. A large number of tasks (e.g. 50 to 500 or more) are prioritized into different releases or tranches. In order to make the list manageable, they are further divided into different "areas", which could be modules within the program or other dimensions. To card map thus requires displaying tasks by the "area" project/column set, and then changing the "tranche" project column.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	None	T105404 [EPIC] Gather requirements from teams for Phab project management feature requests
Declined	None	T102308 Display and edit two projects on one board
Declined	None	T878 Workboard should support additional layouts (3 column, header region that spans all columns, manually resizable columns)

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• JAufrecht created this task.Jun 12 2015, 11:51 PM

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related requirements:

handle special cases
- when a task doesn't belong to one of the projects selected, show it in a quasi-column (which can be hidden)
- when a task belongs to a selected project but has no column, show it in a quasi-column (presumably Phab already handles this with default columns, in which case this is moot)

bonus requirement:

scale the size of each task according to points (or other metric)

• JAufrecht edited projects, added Phabricator; removed Team-Practices, VisualEditor.Jun 15 2015, 11:10 PM

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I'm not sure if I get it but

How does that scale/load with 1000 projects, or would there be some button to choose, load, display an additional project somehow?
How would that display if each project has rather different columns? Separate column headers I assume?

In any case, I don't see upstream including such functionality. Too much of a corner case for them.

Aklapper edited projects, added Phabricator (Upstream); removed Phabricator.Jun 16 2015, 9:29 AM

There would have to be some way to choose each of the two projects. I'm not sure from your comment "How would that display if each project has rather different columns?" if I made it clear enough that the two selected projects would be shown on two axes. So it wouldn't matter at all if the projects had different columns and in fact this tool is most useful when they do have different columns. The purpose is to have a way to visualize large numbers of tasks, ordered by two different dimensions. (e.g., http://www.cardboardit.com/) Another bonus requirements would be to be able to use some other fields as one of the dimensions (instead of Project), such as Priority or Assigned To.

• JAufrecht removed a parent task: T102266: Re-groom VE's product backlog.Jun 18 2015, 11:12 PM

• JAufrecht added a parent task: T105404: [EPIC] Gather requirements from teams for Phab project management feature requests.Jul 15 2015, 11:45 PM

• JAufrecht removed • JAufrecht as the assignee of this task.Jul 16 2015, 6:57 PM

Aklapper added a subtask: T878: Workboard should support additional layouts (3 column, header region that spans all columns, manually resizable columns).Feb 18 2016, 12:01 PM

Aklapper changed the status of subtask T878: Workboard should support additional layouts (3 column, header region that spans all columns, manually resizable columns) from Open to Stalled.Apr 29 2016, 6:28 AM

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Aklapper changed the status of subtask T878: Workboard should support additional layouts (3 column, header region that spans all columns, manually resizable columns) from Stalled to Open.Apr 29 2016, 6:29 AM

Danny_B added a project: Upstream.May 23 2016, 6:01 PM

Aklapper closed subtask T878: Workboard should support additional layouts (3 column, header region that spans all columns, manually resizable columns) as Declined.Jul 25 2016, 2:14 PM