TL;DR: Board View now offers flexible columns, swim-lanes, and cleaner filtering, while Calendar widgets support more filter options and AND/OR logic. Plus, explore Wrike MCP v2 Beta, share your AI use cases, join our Templates & Solutions webinar, discover the M&A Projects Management template, and learn how to manage files in our latest Onboarding Series post!
Feature Updates
- Board View: More Flexible Columns and Swim-lanes 📋
We’re introducing greater flexibility in Board View, making it easier to organize and visualize work based on your team’s processes.
What’s new?
- Create horizontal groupings (swim-lanes) using any single-select or multi-select field, not just assignees.
- Create columns using any single-select or multi-select field, in addition to workflow statuses.
- The Other workflows column now appears on the left to help prevent an empty board experience.
- Filtering now displays only the columns and swim-lanes containing items that match your criteria.
- Empty groups and swim-lanes are automatically hidden when filters are applied, resulting in a cleaner, more focused board.
These improvements unlock more ways to configure Board View and visualize work in a Kanban-style layout that fits your team’s needs. Read more in our community post & Help Center article.
- Dashboards: More Powerful Filtering in Calendar Widgets 📅
Calendar widgets now use the same filtering experience as other Dashboard widgets, providing a consistent and flexible way to customize the information displayed.
What’s new?
- Filter by Parent, Item type, Assignee, Status, Start date, and Due date.
- Combine filters using AND/OR logic for more precise or flexible criteria.
- Display both tasks and projects in the same widget, consistent with Calendar View.
- All new and existing Calendar widgets now use the updated filtering experience.
- Existing widgets are converted automatically while maintaining the same results.
These improvements make it easier to tailor Calendar widgets to your team’s needs. Learn more in our Help Center.
Community News
Wrike MCP v2 is now in Beta, letting users search, create, and update Wrike work directly from AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and Cursor. This update adds unified search, bulk actions, inbox @mention support , and whiteboard management, with general availability expected at the end of the month.
Check out the Community post for details and setup guidance in the Wrike MCP Server Overview.
- Join Our Live Session: Work Faster with Wrike Templates & Solutions 🚀
Join us for a live Wrike Efficiency session on August 5, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. PST to learn how Templates & Solutions can help you launch projects faster, standardize workflows, reduce manual setup, and scale efficiently.
For full details, check out this Community post and register here.
- Community Question: How Do You AI? ✨
Alina from our Product team is inviting admins to share how they and their teams are using AI in their day-to-day work. She’s especially interested in experiences with Wrike MCP, Wrike’s AI agents, how teams ensure AI follows the right process, and how perspectives are evolving on what work should stay in Wrike versus be handled by AI.
Head over to this Community Post to share your experience!
- Template Tuesdays: M&A Projects Management 🤝
This week’s Template Tuesdays spotlight features the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) Projects Management template designed for finance and strategy teams, it helps streamline business development initiatives with structured intake, tailored workflows, financial tracking, dashboards, and automation rules.
Check out this Community post for more details.
- Onboarding Series: How to Attach Files to a Task in Wrike 📎
The latest Onboarding Series post explains how to attach files to tasks, projects, and folders using drag-and-drop, the Add files button, comments, cloud storage services, and the Wrike for Office Documents add-in. It also covers file size limits, previews, cloud file syncing, and how to find and manage attachments using Files View. Check out the full post here.
