Categorizing or organization of tools in spaces

It'd be of great help if it was possible to somehow organize the tools in a space differently than it is today. A few suggestions to possible options in my subjective prioritization on a scale of best to alright:

Creation of folders the tools could be dragged and dropped into/created in, in order to group e.g. a set of tools in multiple groupings
Drag and drop option to customize the order (could be bound to space admin)
Sort in the existing categories so all reports are together, workloads, dashboards etc.

We would like our teams to be able to navigate a little bit better, but they easily get overwhelmed when areas in the system appears to be "voluminous" in content.

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Ashley Fischer

This is a fantastic idea. I agree that the tools section can get a bit overwhelming.

Pietro Poli

Hi @Maria Hermansen,

I've created a specific folder and mapped my reports in a table view.

I know is not the best option, but for me is very useful to organize my Wrike Analyze dashboards and reports.

For other tools I often use emoji to see immediatly reports

Elaine McDonagh

Hey @Maria Hermansen, great suggestion! I've featured this on Community for other users to weigh in (thanks @Pietro Poli @Ashley Fischer 💚). I've passed this on to the team, if you need anything else do be sure to let me know 👍

Maria Hermansen

@Pietro Poli Great advice - thanks for sharing these workarounds, I'm sure my team and I can find great inspiration! :-)

@Elaine McDonagh Amazing, thank you so much 💪

Chip Linthicum Jr

This is a must have improvement - we need. a way to better organize different reports and dashboards instead of just having them all listed there alphabetically.

The workarounds above are just that 'workarounds' but will not address the concerns of many power users.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thanks for sharing your feedback and supporting Maria's suggestion, @Chip Linthicum Jr 🙌

John Hoover

I would upvote this one daily if it was an option.

Juan Muttoni

Thank you for adding your support for this idea, @John Hoover!

Ephemia Nicolakis

I am upvoting this as well! An organizational folder structure of some sort is definitely a necessity so that we can better organize our tools and so that it's not so overwhelming.

Kari Ticoulet

My Tools is a dumpster fire as I help others create dashboards and reports.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Thank you, @Ephemia Nicolakis and @Kari Ticoulet for backing this idea! One thing that we can also suggest using is Space Bookmarks - you can add links and sections for your tools there as well.

Kari Ticoulet

Thank you @Basudha Sakshyarika. This doesn't solve the problem, though. Since we are able to create folders for different projects, we should be able to create folders for Reports, Calendars, Dashboards, etc. I create many dashboards for my org and unfortunately, they're all in one big list in spaces. They're not useful to me, so it would be much easier to have one folder to move them all too. The icons are not particularly useful at times and you can't change color either, so there's literally no way to organize.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Makes sense, @Kari Ticoulet Thanks for highlighting ways to improve the organization of tools and for sharing extra details for our product team to consider. 😊

Szilvia Becző

We are eager to have the option to sort dashboards, analysis boards, and reports in the Tools section. It would be great to have folders for better organization and the ability to control tool sharing. Ideally, we’d like to decide which tools are shared with whom, rather than making all tools visible to everyone in the space.

Sally Kershner

Please work on improved organization for TOOLS section, it is a mess trying to sort between reports and tools for leadership. Please enable FOLDER organization for TOOLS.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Hi @Szilvia Becző and @Sally Kershner! Good news—you can expect an enhancement related to a better-organized and structured tools section in the coming months. Please keep an eye out for updates in "Brought to You by Wrike" forum and the Weekly Release Notes! Thank you 😊

Will Kea

This ask is still getting traction. I have many pinned items and the list is growing. I work in a large organization in which the Wrike structure suits the many. I pin only the things I need and now I need to group them into folders or some other logical construct. Please provide the capability to add a folder to pinned items for better organization.

Rohan V

Hi @Will Kea! 🙋‍♂️

I wanted to highlight that we’ve launched a new feature—Folders for Tools, which allows for better organization. You can read more about it in this Help Center article.

Regarding your suggestion about grouping pinned items into folders, there’s no update yet. If there are any developments in the future, we’ll be sure to post an update in the Community. As Basudha mentioned above, please keep an eye out for updates in the Brought to You by Wrike forum and the Weekly Release Notes so you don’t miss any news.

Thanks!