@Tanya Maddalena Is it possible to do a test run on this feature in my sandbox environment before it is enabled/rolled out to my production site. As it seems there will be many changes, as the admin for my site, I would like a chance to preview and run through it that that I can have information in place and adequately explain to my user base.
@James Woyciesjes It's already live in production though, at least for us. Hope for you it won't, it is not pleasant at all for all of our team since many of the features do not work at all.
@Tanya Maddalena can you please feed back about these issues (especially the inability to Group and still collapse hierarchy). Jira has TOTALLY overcomplicated my weekly prioritisation workflow because I now have no way to hide sub-tasks in my lists when I Group or Filter
@Tanya Maddalena So from my short time messing around with this new "Merged" view it very quickly became obvious you just completely scrapped list view in place of having the All Work view take its place with a few small features from list view that are so poorly implemented that it makes what is already a significant downgrade an even bigger issue.
The issues I have found in the last 15 minutes:
Still no ability to set a default view for the lists to have everyone on the team be on the same page.
Removed the drag and drop formatting ability that List View had which was one of, if not the only, formatting options that had a global effect.
Removed the Ability to have an item open in a minimized view in List View to allow you to quickly scroll and jump between issues while the issue remains on the right side of your screen for visibility.
When opening an Item you are redirected to a new page fullscreening the Item which has one of the ugliest just empty spaces at the top of the item simply to home the new "Return to Search" button in the top right which was incredibly unintuitive to find, and far more unintuitinve that just closing the pop up from list view.
If you try to gain any level of formatting by using the grouping option that was hamfisted over to pretend that List view has any role in this new system completely destroys hierarchies and just spreads the child issues across what groups they are part of rather than under their parent flooding the view unessisarily.
The Sorting by default is locked to Key Highest to Lowest. I have attempted to change this every way I could think but no matter what I do as soon as you go to a different project and return it immediately returns to default.
This furthermore makes me question what the hell the "Freeze Column" option does considering that it is only available on the "Work" Column and seems to do absolutely nothing as it does not retain the sorting whatsoever.
What the hell is the purpose of this change in the first place? We already have the all work view if someone wished to use that. This quite simply removes the functionality and purpose of having Projects be independent pages. As with 2 clicks you can replace that project's list view with a completely different project's Items.
In terms of the "Selling Points" of this change
"Less context switching" - Is completely false, as if you wished to compare issues from different projects together that was possible in the "All Work" tab or from the giant search bar at the top of the screen. However, selecting an issue now opens it in full screen which removes any ability to even see other issues from your list whatsoever.
"More capability" - Also completely false. It has the same capabilities as the "All Work" view already had bar a few minor quality of life features like in line editing. But that comes at the cost of completely losing all functionality, ease of use and formatting capability that was provided with list view.
"Accessible for all" - Again, completely untrue. Many people do not feel comfortable messing around with filters or reformatting a page every time they visit it. Having list view gave the capability of drag and dropping items to create a semi-standardised view for all team members viewing the page. But now it is stuck to your default and returns to that default after any sorting making it a headache every visit.
"Performance-first" - Comparing my private instance on the merged view and my company instance on the normal list view, there is absolutely no noticable difference in load speeds. But there is a hugely noticible difference in performance between being redirected everytime an issue is opened compared to when opening an item in list view into the pop up or side view, both of which are significantly faster and smoother than redirecting to a new page.
It is incredibly hard to believe that you refer to these as "Improvements". Was there any focus group trials? or Early user feedback surveys? Hell, even any internal QA testing for this?
It just feels more and more with each update that is pushed through into Jira makes the user experience significantly worse, while providing little to no benefit in return. This update has just solidified that belief for me.
Please for the love of all admins, give us the ability to set a default formatting for list view. Give us some way where we can provide teams with the view they need to see on entry. Or at the very least give us the regular list view back as while it wasn't great, it was at least usable compared to this.
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