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🤩 Releases - AI Permissions Controls Update, Board View Displaying Projects, Required Fields Enhancements, and More! (06/01/2026)

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TL;DR: Admins now have granular control over AI permissions within User Types, Board view now supports displaying project-level items, and Required Fields support has expanded with new field types and improved admin visibility. Plus, learn how to find work assigned to you in Wrike, and check out last week's Template Tuesday spotlight on the Personal Productivity Setup template!

Feature Updates

AI Permissions Controls: Granular AI Configuration In User Types 🤖

We're thrilled to introduce expanded AI permissions controls, giving admins more flexibility to manage AI access across their organization in line with internal security, governance, and rollout policies.

What's new?

- Admins can now enable or disable AI capabilities individually within User Types, including:

a. Copilot
b. AI Agents
c. Widget Generator
d. AI Essentials (bulk toggle for foundational AI features)

- This allows organizations to:

a. Roll out AI capabilities incrementally
b. Restrict advanced AI functionality to selected user types
c. Maintain broader governance and compliance control

Where to find it: Account Management → User Types → AI Availability: Pinnacle and above

Board View : Displaying Projects 🚀

Board view now gives you more flexibility in how you visualize work by letting you choose which item level to display: Tasks or Projects.

What’s new?

- On Board view, you can now select the level of items you want to display:

a. Tasks - displays task-level items, including custom item types
b. Projects - displays project-level items, including custom item types

- In the Subitems section:

a. When Tasks are selected, task-level items are displayed
b. When Projects are selected, project-level items are displayed

- Availability: Business and above

All Board view functionality is supported whether you choose to display Tasks or Projects. More information is available in this Help Center article.

Required Fields: Expanded Support and Admin Improvements 🧩

Required Fields just got a major upgrade with broader field support and a smoother admin experience.

What's new?

- More fields now supported: Start date, Due date, Duration, Effort, Name, Importance, CF Duration, CF Link to Datahub, and more coming soon.

- Admin experience improvements:

a. A Required Fields column has been added to Workflow admin lists, showing which fields are connected. You can group by this column to see which workflows are affected.
For example, if you deactivate a custom field, you can quickly identify which workflows used it.

b. A Statuses column has also been added to Workflow admin lists, giving you a full overview of work stages. Group by this column to easily spot duplicates.

Community News

Onboarding Series: How To Find Work Assigned To You In Wrike 📬

New to Wrike? This onboarding post covers the best ways to find your assigned work - using My To-Do, Inbox, Dashboard widgets, and more.
Check out the full post here.

Template Tuesdays: Personal Productivity Setup 🗓️

Last week's spotlight features the Personal Productivity Setup template by community member @Adam Katz ! It combines the Pomodoro technique with the Importance Quadrant method to help you stay focused and organized.
Explore the template here.

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Comments

Florian Gascho

Question on the Board view, I feel like we used to be able to also do this with "Assignee" instead of status- will this ever come back?

Andre Boros

@Florian Gascho I think what you referring to is the ability to group by (create swim lanes) based on assignee. We did not offered columns based on assignees.
This has not changed supported both for Tasks and Projects. You still can use with the "Group By" option and selecting assignee.
Soon we plan to offer Custom field values for creating swim lanes and columns.
If you have any question let us know!

David Simmington

More great updates - thank you!

Anna Giacobbe

Nice to see Projects implemented in Board view!

Therese Forsyth

Love that projects can now be in board view! We have a lot of custom item types, and being able to look at the project types this way will be huge. Especially once the custom fields become an option for swim lanes, as @Andre Boros mentioned.

Randi Fields

I’m really excited about the new ability to view projects in Board view — this is something I’ve been hoping for!

However, I’m running into an issue. When I open Board view from a parent folder that contains multiple subfolders with projects inside, none of the projects seem to load in the view.

I’m seeing something similar at the Space level as well. If I select Tasks, everything appears as expected, but when I switch to Projects, no projects display.

I originally thought it might be related to workflow statuses, so I updated the view to use our project workflow/statuses instead, but that didn’t resolve the issue.

I’m wondering if Project Board view only works for projects within a specific folder (rather than projects nested in subfolders or across an entire Space)? Or is there a setting I may be missing?

Thanks so much for any guidance!

Pietro Poli

Great!

Devree Czupinski

Thank you for the great updates this week! Extremely excited to have admin controls over the AI features and the admin controls for required fields will be great to have and see easily!

Andre Boros

@Randi Fields You are right Board view displays only Project level items. Folders can not be displayed on board view currently as folders and sub folders don't have "Status" in our system.
Which would be essential to display as current columns are defined based on Status.
Could you try to convert the folders to projects or it would be too big effort?

Randi Fields

Thanks for the quick response, @Andre Boros !

We use folders to group projects as we ran into a previous issue of having sooo many projects open in the sidebar when we had one folder to show all active projects. See my Q&A post here about that topic: Is it possible to keep folders in the sidebar collapsed?

Therefore, we have the following folders set-up and our projects live in multiple folders, using automations to properly categorize projects. Our main folder is the "1. All Projects" folder, but then we have sub-folders to organize the projects by status. It would be helpful if we could have a project board view in the "1. All Projects" folder that displays all of the projects that can be found in the sub-folders. We don't need to see the folders in the board view, just the projects.

This folder set-up seems to work well for us, but if we can't view all of our projects in the board view — either in the "1. All Projects" folder or the main Space – then we may re-consider our folder structure.

Cheyenne Randall

I agree, being able to view the Board items at a higher level will make some projects so much easier to manage and view!

John_Egleston

Appreciating the admin view enhancement on the new required fields feature - thanks!

Jessica Kvanvig

Great updates!

Amy Hunter

I've had so many people ask me over the years if they can view projects on the board view so I know this update will please a lot of people within my teams!

Julien Wuytens

Great updates! Adding the start/end dates and effort in the required fields is a great way to put safe rails in a flow.

Daisy Hibbard

Hey @Andre Boros, jumping in here to second Randi's comment. I was so excited to see this release announcement after personally waiting 5+ years for the functionality, but as soon as I set up a project Board in the "Space overview" for our Projects space, I quickly discovered it doesn't show projects nested inside folders. I tried it in another space just to verify the same behavior.

This update does provide some value as I'm now able to set up Board views in the individual folders, but I still want the overall high-level view of all projects in the space.

Here's our super basic Projects space setup… just 4 folders and each one only houses projects (no sub-folders).

Eric Fiero

The ability to view project items is great! I had stopped using boards because of this missing feature. Will need to revisit.

Soraya Noel

Great updates. Will there be a world where we can use required fields in the default workflow?

Basudha Sakshyarika

Glad to hear that, @Soraya Noel! Required fields in the Default Workflow is not planned at the moment, but I have shared your interest with our product team. 👍🏽

Andre Boros

Hey @Daisy Hibbard ! I understand this is a problem that folders can not the displayed on the Board. We will check in the future to possibly support folders as well however as they don't have a status it will be not simple to display.
As a quick fix have you considered changing the item type? It's the … menu if you hover over these folders you can change the item type to Project or any project level CIT which would be displayed on the board.
Not sure if it would be a simple fix for you but this could make those projects displayed on the board.

Gabriel Stangl-Riehle

Another great updates with useful and interesting resources!

Shelly Erickson

Great updates … just updated the AI agent capability so general users will need to request agents from the space admins.