CARDS - Add parent title to the card

Michael Wrinch

Is it possible to add the parent title to the card as well? It would make it a lot clearer which item you are working on when the parent is different but the child is the same. For example we have a lot of tasks such as:

Design Part 1

Develop Schematics

Create BOM

Create Layout Drawing

Design Part 2

Develop Schematics

Create BOM

Create Layout Drawing

If the parent "Design Part 2" is not there, we are not able to know which task it is from the card viewer.

Also the cards faile to recognize Parents as non tasks. In a way, only the lowest level task should appear as an option for the cards or the option to select which level should appear.

On top of that, if we take a top level parent card and move it to the "In Progress" All the lower children of that should reflect the top level. Of course there are cases where this would not make sense and some cases where it would that is why not including parents or showing were they fit would be a good idea.

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Michael,

While you can't currently indent parents or show hierarchical relationships in Card view, you might consider creating a column in the grid/gantt view of your sheet that displays the name of the parent row.

You can even use a formula in the column to automatically populate the parent cell data of the primary column. An example of this is as follows: =PARENT([Task Name]2)

This would place the parent cell data of a primary column titled Task Name. More on formulas is available in our Help Center:https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/775363-using-formulas#parent

Paul Watson

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