TL;DR: Request Forms now use short public URLs by default with optional readable suffixes, Custom Fields have a new centralized management view, and New Gantt now supports PDF export. Dashboards now default new chart widgets to new filters, the new Developer Portal is live, and Space Templates now let you exclude tasks and rename Spaces during install. Plus, Klaxoon’s Visual Collaboration MCP is now available, and the Community features posts on Wrike-Up Wednesday, Approvals research interviews, folder onboarding, AI agent date tips, and a Digital Asset Management template.
Feature Updates
Request Forms now generate shorter public links by default, making them easier to share with clients, partners, and external stakeholders. Admins can also add an optional readable suffix for a cleaner, more professional-looking URL.
What’s new?
- Public Request Form links are now automatically generated as short links by default.
- Form admins can add an optional human-readable suffix to customize the end of the URL
- New links are easier to copy, share, and recognize across external tools and channels.
You can find more details in this Help Center article.
Wrike now offers a centralized view for managing Custom Fields, making it easier to review, organize, and maintain them across your account.
What’s new?
- View account-level and space-level Custom Fields in one place.
- Support for grouping, filtering, and improved visualization.
- Create new Custom Fields directly from Space or Account management.
- Enjoy a more consistent configuration management experience.
Why it matters
- Helps reduce clutter in large accounts.
- Makes Custom Fields easier to analyze and maintain.
- Supports more scalable configuration governance.
Read more about Custom Fields in this Help Center article, and check out this Community Post for more details.
You can now export Gantt charts to PDF from the new Gantt Chart experience. The option is located under the globe icon in the toolbar, alongside public links and public snapshots.
What’s new?
- Export your timeline as a PDF from New Gantt.
- Use the globe icon in the toolbar to access sharing and export options.
- Keep PDF export, public links, and public snapshots in one place.
Find more details in this Help Center article.
- Dashboards: New Filters Are Now the Default for New Chart Widgets 📊
With feature parity now reached between new and classic filters, all newly created chart widgets will now use new filters by default.
What’s new?
- All newly created chart widgets now use new filters by default.
- New chart widgets no longer include an option to switch to classic filters.
- Existing chart widgets already using new filters will no longer have the option to switch back.
- Existing widgets still on classic filters will stay on classic filters for now, and can still switch to new filters, but the change is permanent when applied.
- In-product messaging now highlights that classic filters will be removed soon.
Why it matters
New filters bring more flexibility and deeper reporting capabilities to chart widgets, including:
- Deeper drill-downs.
- Support for additional metrics like duration, time to completion, time overdue, effort, approvals, and custom fields.
For more details, take a look at our Help Center Articles - Available Filters in Dashboards & Creating Widgets.
The new Wrike Developer Portal is now live, with an updated experience designed to make it easier to explore APIs and navigate documentation.
What’s new?
- Interactive API documentation with “Try It Out”.
- Faster, improved search.- Cleaner, more modern interface.
- Improved navigation and readability.
Why it matters
- Makes it easier to discover and understand available APIs.
- Improves the overall documentation experience.
- Provides a stronger foundation for future enhancements.
Explore the New Developer Portal by clicking here
- Templates: More Control When Creating and Installing Space Templates 🚀
Templates now offer more flexibility when creating and installing Spaces. You can save a Space as a template without including tasks, and you can also choose the name of the Space during template installation.
What’s new?
- When creating a template, users can choose to exclude all tasks.
- All tasks and task-type work items, including items created from task-type Custom Item Types, are excluded from the template.
- Space structure is preserved, including folders, projects, dashboards, workflows, custom fields, and other configurations.
- Task Blueprints are still included, so teams can begin creating work from predefined blueprints right after installing the template.
- During template installation, users can customize the name of the new Space before it is created.
- New Spaces no longer need to be renamed after installation.
Read more about Templates in this Help Center article.
- Klaxoon: Visual Collaboration MCP is now live ☑️
The Klaxoon Visual Collaboration MCP is now available. It connects supported AI assistants to Klaxoon whiteboards, making it easier to turn unstructured board content into structured outputs, generate diagrams, prepare workshops, summarize whiteboards, and support other collaboration workflows.
With this release, users can:
- List existing whiteboards
- Create new whiteboards
- List existing board objects
- Create new board objects
Currently supported board objects include shapes, text, connectors, and sticky notes.
Example use cases include:
- Turning unstructured board content into structured outputs such as actions, decisions, and groupings.
- Preparing workshops with frames, sections, and starter content.
- Generating diagrams and visual structures from instructions or structured inputs.
- Summarizing and comparing content across one or multiple boards.
- Reorganizing board (grouping, layout, light structure) items after brainstorming.
Learn more: Developer portal documentation
Community News
- Wrike-Up Wednesday: Favorite Way to Take a Break 🧘
Join this week’s Wrike-Up Wednesday by sharing your favorite way to take a break during the workday in the Community. Tell us how you like to recharge and reset before diving back into your tasks.
Post your comment in this Community thread.
- [Interviews] Wrike Approvals Research ✅
We’re looking for customers to participate in a 45-minute interview about how Wrike Approvals fits into their workflows, including any challenges with discoverability, flexibility, or scaling.
Want to take part? Book a time through this Community post.
- Wrike Onboarding: What Is a Folder in Wrike? 📁
We’ve shared a new onboarding post to help users understand how folders work in Wrike. It explains what folders are, how they differ from projects and tasks, when to use them, how to create them, and best practices for organizing work within a Space.
Read more in the Community post.
- AI Agents: A More Reliable Way to Handle Dates 📅
We’ve shared a quick tip for making AI agents more reliable with deadlines, overdue tasks, and aging work. Instead of asking the agent to calculate from date strings, use a Formula custom field like Due Date - Today, formatted as a Number, so it can compare an integer instead.
Read the full post on date awareness for AI Agents here.
- Template Tuesdays: Digital Asset Management 📁
This week’s Template Tuesdays post highlights the Digital Asset Management template by @Pietro Poli . It helps teams organize digital assets, useful resources, and customer documentation with pre-built dashboards, reports, request forms, custom fields, item types, and workflows.
The post also walks through the template structure, including the How-To Guide, Tools & Useful Links, and Customers folders, so teams can quickly understand how to use it.
Explore the full Digital Asset Management template post here.
