Custom Field Sections

Looking for the possibility to create our own custom fields sections for grouping purposes. Since all projects and tasks are meant to be a collaborative area, it be helpful for different functional teams to see sectioned off areas that are meant for their contributions. It'll be helpful when the feature where custom fields can be moved around in the project level is released since everything is currently sorted alpha-numerically, but it'd be one step more helpful to be able to section areas off so it' s not one ginormous blob when there are many custom fields being used.

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Juan Muttoni

Hello @Kerri Loh, welcome to the Community! You can use custom item types to select which custom fields should be included in them - and in which order. Is this what you were looking for?

Cody Silfies

I don't want to speak for @Kerri Loh - but what I think she's asking is a similar request that we have, where in currently a list of custom fields is just one long list; but might benefit from being broken up into 'groups' of thematic fields with a custom head.

For instance, we have a custom item type called 'Story & Editorial' - which is how our organization plans to keep tabs on 'writing' projects across our large distributed team. Once a team member writes a story, they fill out a bunch of fields we need for reporting (audience, channels, strategy, etc) - but we also have some fields that are JUST for specific teams, like the web team (does it show up on the home page? What date?), a central editorial director (has he seen the story?), and our social media team (what platforms is it going on). For our distributed folks it looks like they should fill out all of these fields, but sections would help designate which teams should fill them out. Something like...

-- General --

Channel
Audience
Strategy

-- Editorial --

Reviewed? (Y/N)

-- Web Team --

Homepage Date
Link

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi @Cody Silfies, thanks for reaching out and providing the details of your use case!

I've now moved this thread to our main Product Feedback forum and passed your feedback to the responsible team 👍

Steve Mruskovic

I would personally just be happy if custom fields from different spaces were sectioned off. We have projects that are tagged into different spaces that have different sets of custom fields. Then, with the larger list of custom fields, mine are mixed with the other Space's. I'd rather have them grouped by space, with a toggle to close other spaces' lists.

Kerri Loh

I second Steve's comment above.

@Cody Silfies Yes! you interpreted my comment exactly as I intended!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

We appreciate the additional feedback here, folks 👍

Sara Wood

Is there an update or other thread with this product feedback that I could upvote? Being able to create sections exists in another tool that some of my teams have used and it's been a downgrade with custom item types listing all the fields in a column (or two or three, depending on your screen size).

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi @Sara Wood! We don't have updates for custom field sections at the moment, but logged your feedback and passed it on. Please be sure to upvote the main post above if you haven't yet.