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Is there a way to vertically scroll the entire board or all lists at once?

Greg May_go41g7

I've only been using Trello for a week, so I just started getting lists that are too long to display fully in the browser window. When that happens, it looks like Trello adds a scroll bar to the list.

In the future, I think it is possible that I will have multiple lists on a board that are too long to display all cards in the browser window. That means I will have to scroll each list individually.

It would be much better for me if, instead of confining the cards to a window height that fits within the browser window, the cards simply ran down as far as they needed to, and I could scroll down all lists by using the browser scroll bar. That is, rather than scroll list by list, I would find it easier to use the browser scroll bar to vertically scroll the entire board, so that all lists longer than the browser window scroll vertically at the same time.

I don't see a way to set this up in Trello, nor I have I found (yet) a power-up or extension that enables this. Is there a way to do it?

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Greg May_go41g7

I lucked upon a way to do it. The Swimlanes for Trello lets you create multiple horizontal rows of lists (and you can specify the break point for the rows, unlike with List layouts for Trello). When there is more than one lane, cards just keep getting added to the bottom of the lists, and I get exactly what I've been looking for.

There's a quirk in Swimlanes: any time you move boards, they all go back into a single row, but reloading the page puts the rows back with the board in the new position. That's only a hassle when you are deciding how to set up your board, Once its set up with the lists the way you like it, it shouldn't come into play.

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Katrin Anger

@Greg May

Hi Greg,

With the Chrome browser you can install an add-on that lets you scroll boards vertically.

It's called List Layouts for Trello. It comes with 3 different list layouts, one of them is a vertical one.

Hope that helps.

Greg May_go41g7

Thank you. That's a nifty extension, but it does not address my issue, so I'll try to explain it better here.

I do not want to stack lists vertically. I would still like to have only one list in each column.

What I want to change is Trello's default behavior for displaying long lists. By default, if there are too many cards in a list to show all of them in the browser window, Trello creates a list window the height of the browser window and adds a scroll bar to that list. So, if I have multiple lists whose lengths exceed the height of the browser window, I have to scroll through each of them one-by-one.

What I would prefer is for cards to be added to the bottom of a list and always displayed no matter how long the list gets. That is, a long list would not result in a box with a scroll bar; it would result in many cards outside the visible display in the screen, and would require scrolling the browser window to see them. Since all long lists would have cards running past the bottom of the browser window, scrolling the browser window would allow me to scroll all lists at the same time.

Imagine all cards in all lists being the same size. Just as each list would resemble the column in a table or spreadsheet, each row of cards would resemble the row in a table or spreadsheet. If a table or spreadsheet is too long for the browser window, one scrolls through the browser window, and all rows in a table or spreadsheet scroll together.

THAT is what I am trying to accomplish.

Katrin Anger

@Greg MayOk, I understand now. - I am sorry, but I cannot think of a solution for this.

Greg May_go41g7

When I wrote "move boards" and "board in the mew position," I of course meant "move lists" and "lists in the mew position,"

unknown

First of all: just loooove Trello :-)

I experience the same need for a better view of long lists.

In stead of the scrolling feature in every list, I'd much rather have the long list expanded and visible, which makes it easy to scroll down the entire board, seeing all the long lists at the same time and not having to scroll on every list itself.

Is there a way for this to happen, please?

Carolyn Choate

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I need for one of my boards

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