Workspaces and Business Class - is a workspace the same as a team

[EnEm]

Thinking about upgrading to Business Class but not clear about how Workspaces and teams works. It seem as if all users are in one WorkSpace but not clear about this.

Happy to pay ONCE for each team member (that is every member of staff in the organisation and a couple of very involved external users) but right now we use Trello workspaces to collect boards together for workgroups and we need a way to keep doing this. 

Example: User A, B  C are in a project team, and we use a Trello workspaces to manage their boards. Users B,C and D are in another team and the same applies. Likewise for Users E,F and G, and all users are in general Trello workgroup (Users A, B, C, D, E, F & G). 

Does Business Class let us keep working like this, or will everyone be in the same workgroup? If the latter, how do people keep their Teams separate and the Team boards grouped together.

Thanks in advance for any help or guidance.

[Laura Holton _ACE Manchester_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @EnEm 👋

I would suggest reading through Trello’s page   ‘What are Trello workspaces?’ as I believe this will explain it perfectly for you 😃

A snippet from the page which I feel will help your question around grouping team boards is - If you're simply looking for a way to group boards together, we would recommend using a single Workspace and then using board Collections to organize them. Board collections are a feature of Business Class, which you can read about here. 

I hope this helps but please let me know if you have any more questions! 

All the best,

Laura

[Nils Geylen]

This is an older question but like @EnEm I've been considering this same situation for a while now. Wonder how they solved this by now.

I've just posted a miserably despondent thread on the issue: Considering Workspaces : Good Guides, Best Practices, Tips? | Ramblings

But as I mention there, I'm afraid Collections don't seem to be a solution for this.

Collections are IMO still neglected as a feature, they're not easy to manage, impossible to search in, and you certainly can't add certain users to one collection with others assigned to other collections.

As a feedback suggestion that would be my repeated plea to show some love for existing features.