Mass Unfollow in New Table View

Hello,

Are there any plans to add unfollow as a mass action in the new table view? Our use case is that our workforce interacts with a lot of tasks, but doesn't need continuing notifications about them once individual responsibilities are completed. We generally use the new table view and switching to list view all the time is inconvenient.

Thanks.

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Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hey @Ali Moses, I've checked with the team, and they don't have this in their plans at the moment. At the same time, I've flagged your feedback.

Michael Morrison

Hello, I would like to add to this request. As a lead Wrike developer for my team, there are times where I import hundreds of tasks from excel. In one instance, I would have to individually unfollow 1,000 tasks in order to not get email notifications. Has there been any progress on this "mass unfollow" function?

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Michael Morrison, welcome to the Community! Thank you for chiming in. Do I understand correctly that after creating tasks via Excel import you automatically start following them?

What might be happening is that because you're the author of the tasks and you have the relevant email notifications enabled, you're receiving emails when these items are modified. If that is the case, you can edit your email notification preferences in Settings (click on your profile picture) > Personal settings > Email preferences:

If you untick the relevant options, you will stop receiving email notifications when a task you created is updated.

I hope this information helps!

Michael Morrison

Hello Juan,

I've looked into this before. The issue is that it disables notifications for all tasks. As a member of our Wrike deployment team, there times where I create tasks and projects for other people on our team that I do not need to follow. However, there are also instances where I create tasks that I do want to follow and receive email updates.

This is why a function where I can mass unfollow tasks would be extremely helpful.

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Michael Morrison, thank you for your reply, I understand your case better now and I've shared it with our Product Team 👍 We'll keep you updated in case there are any changes implemented.

Please, let us know if there's anything else we could help you with.

Ali Moses

@Elizaveta Bogdanova @[Deleted User] With the eventual sunsetting of list view, are there any plans now to add mass unfollow to table view? This is a feature we are using on the daily.

KC Cover Desk

hello! I wanted to mention the impact that a lose of mass unfollow would create in my position.

I have turned off all email notifications for my wrike account, because so much of my job lives in wrike, and I was double-handling everything between archiving notices in both my wrike and email inboxes.

I end up following wrike tasks predominantly through three methods: being assigned to process specific wrike forms that are submitted to my department, being mentioned in main job tasks by users in numerous departments seeking clarification or issue resolution, and being the person who uploads/creates new job tasks in wrike for two of our product programs, to which I am unlikely to ever interact with these tasks after they are created.

the first case doesn't create extra work because once the form is marked complete, no one will communicate further in that task thread.

the second case is the smallest in volume and doesn't matter because I unfollow those tasks at the time I resolve the issue.

but the third case is where waste is introduced. without the ability to mass unfollow via the list view, any future response in those tasks puts items in my inbox. items that aren't mine to respond to or resolve. and those things in my wrike inbox start to bury the priority items there that I need to take action on.

with the removal of list view, I do hope the option for mass unfollow migrates to the table view. it very much is a waste reducer.

thank you.

Rohan V

Hi @Ali Moses and @KC Cover Desk 👋

Thank you for reaching out and detailing the use cases! As of now, this is not on our immediate roadmap, as other initiatives are currently taking priority. However, I will be sure to keep you informed about any updates from the team regarding this suggestion. Thanks!

Kendra Ciszczon

It would be helpful in our organization to be able to mass unfollow too. I, like others on this thread import large numbers of tasks into folders for others to work on. Once I import the file, I am done with the tasks. I do not want to stop email notifications due to the fact that I use them for tasks/projects I am responsible for.

I have heard there is a tentative sunset date (approx. 2 months from now) for list views and new mass functions are being added to table views. Please reconsider including mass unfollow as one of the mass updates you will be adding.

Anna Giacobbe

Great point, @Ali Moses!

We are, in some cases, opening work on behalf of others and don't need to be following progress.

I think that especially with the fact that List view is sunsetting, this is an important feature that should be ported over to Table view since users will soon not have a choice but to stop using List.

Rohan V

Hi 👋 @Kendra Ciszczon and @Anna Giacobbe, thank you both for sharing your views and supporting this post! We are ensuring that all comments are being forwarded to the responsible team to review. If there are any updates, I'll be sure to post them here.

Anthony O'Donnell

Some staff in my organization have the responsibility to open up blueprints in Wrike at the start of projects, with over 100+ items/subitems.

This blueprint includes automatization messages to followers, triggered by certain activities. The staff responsible for opening this blueprint do not need to be updated on all of these changes.

A simple selecting of the items, then 'unfollow all' would be a dramatic – and necessary – improvement (to avoid inundating my users). I have added an image with arrows detailing where such a 'unfollow all' button could be placed.

Thank you kindly in advance.

Kendra Ciszczon

@Anthony O'Donnell Thank you for sharing an image of where this option could be added to the current layout. This is something that is desperately wanted in my organization. Really hope this will be included somewhere in the mass edits/updates in the Table View soon!

Rohan V

Thanks, @Anthony O'Donnell, for suggesting this feature, and thank you, @Kendra Ciszczon, for backing it. We’ll provide an update here if there are any developments.