Gina Lockwood: Sorry - How can I do this. Like what are the steps to get this to work. Just pinning items on the left side does not seem to group them? Is there some screen grab or details you can share?

Gina Lockwood: Its really simple. All we want is a + symbol here and the ability to add custom folders for projects!!!

Gina Lockwood: Hi Gina, I don't think this is entirely what we had in mind. Creating parent projects isn't really that helpful when we want to combine them in another format (i.e. ABC Company has 3 projects, but all of ABC Companies projects fall under the "non-profits" category. We'd want a folder for "Non-Profits" where we can put all of the ABC Company projects + any others like them into that folder). Let me know if you have any questions on this. :)

Gina Lockwood: I see this on my Hive. Thanks for the test inclusion! One note is that I expected it to be different than the nesting option in the Project Navigator which forces a Parent Project, not just a true folder. I don't always want all 17 marketing sub-projects rolled up into the Marketing Parent Project, but would love a marketing folder where I can store projects that all live in that folder, but aren't connected in parent<>child relationships. Does that make sense?

Joe Radler: Hi Joe! Right below the "Pinned" section, you'll now find " Projects". Mine's collapsed in the screenshot, but here you'll see your projects here with their grouping!

Hmmm, I may not be understanding (or seeing?) this feature. We want folders to be able to organize projects in those folders instead of creating dummy projects at the top level (our workaround for folders). I do see all our projects on the left side now, but there is no new organization method that I can see. Again, perhaps I don't have the feature turned on, but I think we all were wanting actual folders for organizing clients/projects and not necessarily having all projects on the left side. We appreciate everyone's work on Hive!! :)

Edit:

Added an image of what we are wanting to help clarify.

Adding an example from another platform we used to use that shall remain nameless, but that gave you the folder option. in this image, product marketing and Q3 strategy planning are folders, not projects, whilst the 4 items below are true Project boards, but that don't have parent:child relationships.

Tyson Nielsen Courtney King Jennifer Zieg MANUFACTURING TEAM

Thank you all for such quick and helpful feedback. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. You are correct that right now this will show the existing project structure instead of provide the ability to create new folders, but we can certainly understand how folders that aren't also projects can help save time and improve organization. We'd like to continue improving on this and bring you exactly what you're looking for!

If you are looking for the ability to add folders and not just the ability to see your project organization in the sidebar itself, would you please drop a vote here? https://hiveteams.canny.io/feature-requests/p/ability-to-organize-projects-into-folders-that-can-be-pinned-to-the-left-hand-si

Thanks again everyone!!

Gina Lockwood: This looks almost exactly like what I wanted to see, no more fooling around with "pinning" projects. The tre structure is good, also. Thank you!

Gina Lockwood: Adding folders would be good, as long as it doesn't remove the function you've just added, as this is just what I was looking for, and while obviously related, is not the same thing.

Gina Lockwood: Agreeing with the group here that having the option to create custom folders would be super helpful. That way we could have custom buckets to organize projects and summary views or ideally both!

Courtney King: I'm familiar with this PM tool ↑ and it is a really, really cool feature.

Gina Lockwood: I think the OP was asking (and others to include myself were expecting) the ability to create and organize their projects within folders/subfolders that they could then pin - similar to this: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/articles/209603609-Creating-Folders

I agree with everyone's take that while helpful, this doesn't allow for custom grouping. I wonder if the ability to add labels to projects and then group by label would solve this? I have independently wanted that feature - labels are super-helpful, and being able to use them as another, more flexible way to categorize/group projects and meet some of the same intent as the folders?

See this: https://hiveteams.canny.io/feature-requests/p/project-level-labeling

And this (which probably should be merged): https://hiveteams.canny.io/feature-requests/p/project-level-labels