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New Participant
October 24, 2017
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UI: Task Indentation

  • October 24, 2017
  • 17 replies
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The alignment of tasks with subtasks has always been off in Workfront and it makes it hard to see the work breakdown structure.

Its hard to see the parent-child relationship. Here's a video with audio showing you the before-and-after: http://screencast.com/t/tecYEdvPYm

This is a UI-only change to the CSS. See below.

CHANGE

.indentable-table [collapselevel='0'].collapsible [valuefield=name] img.parent { left: 4px; }
.indentable-table .collapsible td[valuefield=name] img.parent { left: 5px; }
.indentable-table .collapsible td[valuefield=name] .inner-cell { margin-left: 18px; }

TO

.indentable-table [collapselevel='0'].collapsible [valuefield=name] img.parent { }
.indentable-table .collapsible td[valuefield=name] img.parent { left: -10px; }
.indentable-table .collapsible td[valuefield=name] .inner-cell { margin-left: 0px; }

17 replies

New Participant
May 7, 2019

@WF - please apply the same fix to Project templates :)


New Participant
April 2, 2019

Hey, all,

With the latest Task list changes, we've improved the indentation UI. Now the sibling task names appear on the same level, instead of aligning with the hierarchy arrows. I'm marking this as Delivered.

Thanks!

Lilit

New Participant
December 27, 2018

The look is improved. Now you can really tell that items are on the same level.

Kelly_Wehrmann
New Participant
December 26, 2018

I tested this out....the auto indenting is still somewhat buggy... if you select the last child task of a group and try to "drag/drop" it out of the group, but where it still is relatively the same line number, it does not out-dent a level. It works the reverse...if you grab a task and try to add it to be the last child in the grouping just above it. The auto-indenting and creating child tasks has always been a little buggy and problematic for our PMs. It they attempt to just move a task and however too long, it makes it a child and messes up their tasks. I'd really like to see "auto-child" portion of the move process dropped from the tool or at least have a way at an enterprise level to just turn it off. It is better than it has been in the past, but still causes problems for our PMs.

On another note, I'd like to see the indentation you see on the screen also export to excel and PDF.

New Participant
December 26, 2018

Thanks Lilit. That's what I tried but it didn't work. I guess I can't access preview if we use SSO?

New Participant
December 26, 2018

Hey, Dustin,

You can go to https://<your domain>.preview.workfront.com and login with your production credentials. You can also find the link in Setup > System > Preferences > Test Environments section.

Thanks!

Lilit

New Participant
December 26, 2018

Hi Lilit, can you clarify how to access Preview? thanks!

New Participant
December 25, 2018

Hey, all,

I'm glad to inform that we've released an updated version of task lists to Preview, which includes the requested indentation improvements. Please take a few minutes to check it and let us know what you think. You can leave your feedback via "Give Feedback" button above the task lists on Preview or you can also schedule a 30-minute call with me via this link to discuss the changes in more detail.

Thanks!

Lilit

New Participant
May 9, 2018

My team is requesting this enhancement, so I completely agree and hope to see this soon! Thank you!

New Participant
January 9, 2018

Hello, all,

Thank you for submitting, voting and commenting on this idea. I am glad to inform you, that we are planning some usability improvements on lists, and fixing the task alignment is one of the changes we intend to have in scope of that initiative.

Thanks!

Lilit