Setting default column order in table view

Fingers crossed that someone has figured this out...

After just over a year in Wrike, I want to standardize the visible columns (including custom) and the order of columns in the table view of Projects.

As the account owner and admin, is it possible to set this up or make a batch edit? Or am I stuck going through 100+ active projects to update each manually?

Thank you!

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Hey @Susan Richardson!

At the moment, there is no way to mass-edit column orders in Table View across different projects. If you'd like, I can move this suggestion to the Product Feedback section? This way, other users can show their support and pass their feedback on to the Product team.

Sarah C

Agree totally with being able to batch update columns and they stay where they are meant to be - a real pain that every project you look at has table columns all over the place!!!!!!!!!!

Permanently deleted user

Hi @Susan Richardson,

As another Community member has provided their feedback for this suggestion, I've moved this post into the Product Feedback section of the Community. Here, feedback will be collected and passed on to the Product team. Once this reaches 60 upvotes, the team will be able to provide you with a status update about your suggestion. You can read more about our process in this Community post. If you have any questions about this process, feel free to reach out.

Hey @Sarah C,

Thank you for sharing your feedback here. If there is anything else that we can help with, be sure to let me know.

Alyssa Sinko

I tried to find this in the Product feedback section but I can't find it. My company would REALLY benefit from this update.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi @Alyssa Sinko, welcome to the Community! 🙂

This thread is now in the Product Feedback forum, so please make sure to upvote the suggestion above if you haven't already 👍 The number of votes helps our Product team assess the popularity of suggestions on this forum.

Nick Bideshi

This would save huge amounts of time for my team.

Elaine McDonagh

Hi @Nick Bideshi, welcome to the Community 🙂

Thanks for adding your feedback here, I've passed this on to the Product team. If you need help with anything else let me know 👍

John Brewer

How do you set the columns in table view as your default when you go to the page. I'm constantly having to update them. If I create a blue print with a set of columns when I use the blue print will they appear as I have set them in the blue print.

Cansu Yetisgin

Hello @John Brewer, the order of columns you arrange stays as your default for the next time on a project level. If you're looking to have the same order in other projects that's not a subproject of the rearranged one, you'd have to repeat the ordering manually each time.

Please let me know if you have any other questions 🙋🏻‍♀️

Stephen Barnecut

My working experience with table view is that the column order is undistinguishable from random. There should be a way of setting the column order based on a preset subviews of the table view. As well, there should be a way to mass edit the default column order on a folder, project and space level.

Cansu Yetisgin

Thank you for your feedback @Stephen Barnecut, I'm passing it on to our team!

Erin Villareal

Am i reading correctly, that there is no way to lock what columns are shown on a table? ie: A budget tracking table? I would like to use this table to create a blueprint, so that we automate opening the budget tracker when the project is opened. It is a huge time suck to have to go in and add each of the custom fields and then arrange them in the order that I need them for the doc to be read correctly. This seems like it should be a standard practice, once the table is created?! AND when I added the table as a blueprint, all of my custom fields, as well as my formula fields, are no longer there. Thanks for any help in this matter.

Cansu Yetisgin

Hi @Erin Villareal, welcome to the Community, and thank you for posting. The order you set for the columns is sticky but you cannot lock the columns. Could you please check if you cannot see any of your custom fields under the gear icon?

Daniel Niewiński

Hey people, let's upvote this! That would save us quite some time as well.

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Daniel Niewiński, welcome to the Community! Thank you for supporting this idea!

Jorge Felix

It’s really annoying have to change column order in table view every time I need to review projects with the same structure. As @Stephen Barnecut adequately put it column order looks undistinguishable random. Is there a way of setting column order default?

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Jorge Felix, welcome to the Community. Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, at the moment I'm afraid that this option is not available. However, we'll keep you informed if there are any updates.

Also, I'd like to mention that you can check our New to Community forum to discover all the resources you can find in our Community 🙂

Claire Esteban

Hi, we are currently dealing with the same question. We try to understand what is the order of fields (columns) in table view. And why sometimes moving from a project to another it is not the same order ?

Juan Muttoni

Hello @Claire Esteban, thank you for your comment. The columns are rearranged per item, which means that if your team sets a certain order for the columns in a project, when opening a different one, the columns will have a different order as well, at least by default.

Please, let us know if you have any additional questions!

Ian Kizer

Hello!

I just wanted to put my two cents in here! Being able to add a default column order to a specific view that could be used across items or for all projects in a space would be awesome! Our teams work on thousands of projects at a time, and certain fields are important to every single project depending on the team (and, our teams manually add the same columns to the table for every project).

Custom Item Types are great, because you configure the fields shown in the list/item view - but this doesn't really help you in terms of having the ability to view a project or folder and all of its subitems in a consistent way. If you weren't going to add the ability for users or spaces to have custom default tables that could be added to any item (this would be amazing, as it takes our project owners hours to configure projects uniformly) an alternative that could also work to at least reduce the current effort would be to be able to customize the default fields show in table view at the custom item level.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback @Ian Kizer, I'll make sure to send it to the responsible teams 👍

Daniel Klotz

Hey,

so we're in the process of switching to wrike and already created about 130+ spaces with subfolders via wrike's API programmatically. But then realized there's no way to set a default customized table view for all existing spaces.

We'd only need to add some extra table columns (some may be using custom global fields that are filled via API requests as well).

Instead, as far as I understand now, we'd have to manually set/customize all those views by hand which somewhat makes our whole effort in automating space/project creation completely pointless.

Please consider adding such a feature anytime soon as this will make a huge difference regarding overall productivity on a daily basis (which was our main reason we considerd switching to wrike in the first place btw)

Thanks!

Morgan Keirn

Completely agree with this needing to be an option! if i have columns set in a certain order for a folder, all projects added under that folder should have the same columns and in the same order! We also just bought Wrike and this has been painful.

Samantha Selby

Any update on this feature? I am also struggling with this.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi folks!

It is now possible to copy views to and from current location. You can definitely do that with Table view - please find the details in this post 🙂

Ian Kizer

@Elizaveta Bogdanova - This is helpful, but copying and pasting these views from project to project or to each subproject takes time when your working with hundreds of projects in a folder.

The ability to actually inherit views from a Parent Folder or Space would be extremely helpful.

Rohan V

Hi @Ian Kizer 👋 I’m stepping in for Lisa here. Thank you for explaining and adding your suggestion. We will now forward your comment to the relevant team for review. If there are any updates regarding inheriting views from a Parent Folder or Space, we’ll be sure to keep you informed. 👍

Cade Gaede

This didn't really solve the original problem we are all facing - making it so that sub folders have the same column flow without having to create a new view every time we make a folder/project. I agree with Ian and Daniel. I think 99% of users would prefer an account level table structure that implements throughout all of the folders. Or perhaps a different top level folder type that then any subfolders created within that top level folder follow the top level folders rules.

Shona Snowden

Adding my voice in here; yes, please - would love to be able to set column order in a blueprint and have that flow through to the projects created from that blueprint.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Thank you for the feedback, @Cade Gaede and @Shona Snowden! I will pass this along to our product team. 👍🏽