Hello everyone! I am an engineer at Dovetail and have been exploring the idea of anyone being able to Edit project views without it affecting the whole project. What the flow will look like is the following:
As a user, I can go to a project, change the filters in the view, change the view itself, change the sort etc
These changes will only be saved when you click “Save for everyone” or something like that.
If this is something you are interested in please respond to this message, I’d love to have a chat further with you 😄
sounds good. I use this feature in Notion. It would at least give greater visibility on whether changes are affecting just me or everyone, as sometimes I'm not sure.
good idea! this would be useful for our team as we are using a single project for our ux research repository, but have a handful of Product Mangers who view the repo and sort out fields that are relevant to them for their particular product line. everything else is simply noise so we have created views within the Data tab for each PM that only show their fields. Im sure that means each PM has to keep flipping the views around when they come in, would be better if settings were per user.
Is this in reference to the Browse tab? Or within a project?
Thank you for the feedback! And Maegan Pisman this is within a project 😄
Came here to say I would love to see this! Like Ryan above, I have currently created 'views' with custom filters for different stakeholders, but I don't need to see them, they add clutter, and stakeholders don't need to see the views that others need. This would be amazing. Just a clarification, are you talking about 'viewers' being able to change views, or just editors? Because the views I have created are for 'viewers'. Happy to discuss more if you want more input
Faidon Loumakis initially we were thinking just editors, but I see a world where it might be useful for Viewers to be able to change filters and such. However, we would just disable the ability for Viewers to save any of these changes
Yeah, in our case we have a lot of viewers who have very different needs, and for them I have created these custom views. I could see that priority one would be for editors to do this instead of viewers, but it would be valuable to viewers to do this as well. If I could go wild with scope creep for a moment 😅 I could even see a process in which I can create multiple views and save them and I could just send them the links to those views (even if they are not able to create them). For example, we offer furnished apartments around the world. Some of the links I have sent are:
For a regional manager: A board data view with interviews filtered by specific cities (note field)
For someone in the photography team: A table view of highlights filtered by photo-related tags
For someone in the pricing team: A table view of highlights filtered by price-related tags
For a PM: A table view of insights filtered by an insight field related to their product
These are real examples, I have already done this, but the problem with my current setup is that I always have these available and I don't need to have them visible to me (or to each other). I understand this is a bit different to what you were asking about, just adding this here for context in case it sparks any ideas 🙂 BTW, I'm loving the fact that engineers, designers and PMs are tapping into the community to engage in discussions 🤩
Thank you Faidon Loumakis and love that you are going a bit wild! It’s a little bit out of scope of what we were thinking for a first pass but it’s good to know your use case. I’ll let you know when I get started on this work, and if you are interested (or anyone in this thread is) I am happy to run a beta with you all to get some feedback 😄
A beta for this will be out sometime this week - Faidon Loumakis and Ryan Wien I will DM you both to get some details from you so I can turn it on for your workspace 😄
Hey Faidon Loumakis and Ryan Wien, Just letting you know I’ve turned it on for your workspace! Feel free to post here or give me a DM on any feedback you may have!
Yes please!!!! When I help people set-up their workspace, it is a major concern that it is not customizable for users, since we all work differently.
Sure Andrea Boa Hartwig Just sent you a DM