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Can I show all labels by default in the "Labels" sub-menu on a task?

Slaveyko Slaveykov_qc68eo

Can I show all labels by default in the "Labels" sub-menu on a task?

I used to be able to see all Labels by default in identical order every time the sub-menu was opened. Now I have to click the "Show More Labels" button to see them all and ordered. I find "Suggestions" to make this even worse, as there are now two lists I need to scan at a glance. Furthermore, I have the muscle memory to know the order of tasks. That is now worthless. I understand this seems like a minor issue but it costs me a few extra seconds and 1 more click to do something I could do in 2 clicks and about a second. I have 800+ tasks and the project is continuously growing so this will continue to be an issue.

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Lara

Hi all (@Slaveyko Slaveykov @Cody Gatlin @Tom G_ @Ifor @johndatadavies),

Thank you for the feedback.

While this exact functionality isn’t currently available in Trello, I have gone ahead and created a feature suggestion for you with our product team which you can access here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TRELLO-404

I would also recommend you visit that suggestion, log in with your Atlassian account, and click Start watching this issue on the right panel. This will help our product and engineering team understand which functionalities our users are interested in. Also, when the ticket is updated by our product team, you'll be notified via email.

You can learn more about this by reading our Implementation of New Features Policy.

If you have any questions about this suggestion, any additional information you would like to share, or any comments on our new features policy, please let us know!

All the best,

Lara
The Trello Team

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Lara

Hi Slaveyko,

Thanks for reaching out!

You can disable suggested actions on your account settings: https://trello.com/u/my/account.

When you view the labs modal, we show all of the labels that have been applied to the card and when you click 'Show more labels', it'll show you the other labels. Just to confirm, were you able to view all labels previously (i.e. non-selected labels appeared in the list)?

Lara
The Trello Team

Slaveyko Slaveykov_qc68eo

Hey, Lara,

Thanks for the quick response

Yes, I could see all labels previously.
When I open the modal I see most but not all labels. I see all labels when I click "Show more labels".
Thank you for the instructions but, I've disabled Suggestions already.

I may have rambled a bit (my apologies), so to make this a bit clearer let me reiterate:
- I'd like to be able to see all labels in the modal by default (without clicking the "Show more labels" button).

Thank you,

Slav

Lara

Hi Slav,

Thanks for the additional context!

I've reached out to our team about this and they confirmed that they did reduce the page size on the labels popover, as it took up too much vertical space to fit on most laptop screens.

While the popover never showed all labels by default, the page size was bigger by 2 labels.

That said, I definitely understand this extra time to view all labels can impact your workflow, and I have shared this feedback with our team.

Please let us know if you have any other questions, and we'll be happy to help.

All the best,

Lara
The Trello Team

Slaveyko Slaveykov_qc68eo

Interesting! I could have sworn it was showing all of them previously but I trust your tech team. Might be I just noticed it because I included a couple more labels recently. Either way - apologies. However, I would like to suggest an option to show all labels by default - could be placed around the suggestions toggle in settings.

Thank you!

Tom G_

Sorry, I meant to reply.

johndatadavies

Are there any Trello devs looking at these posts?

Please give us the option:

[x] always show all labels

Workflow without this option:

Click 'add a card'
Type description and hit enter
Click the pencil menu, select 'edit labels'
Scan the list of frequently used labels (that is slightly different to the last time it appeared) to see if the ones you want all happen to be there, and click those that are
Click 'show more' (because inevitably one of the labels you need isn't there)
Realise the labels are now in a totally different order and scan them all again to find the ones you still want and click them.

Workflow with this option selected:

Click 'add a card'
Type description and hit enter
Click the pencil menu, select 'edit labels'
Scan the list of labels for the labels you want and click them.

Assuming you are not insane and don't have 100s of infrequently used labels, the second workflow scenario is clearly superior.

A crucial part of the planning process for any project is to have well-defined and holistic task categories. While catering for people that litter their planning space with far too many ill-conceived labels could be considered compassionate design, the side effect is that those people who are well organised have to suffer disproportionately.

So please, give us the option:

[x] always show all labels

PS. Thanks to the Trello devs for all the hard work, recent updates have been great and it's nice to see Trello being given some love.

Lara

Hi all (@Slaveyko Slaveykov @Cody Gatlin @Tom G_ @Ifor @johndatadavies),

Thank you for the feedback.

You can learn more about this by reading our Implementation of New Features Policy.

If you have any questions about this suggestion, any additional information you would like to share, or any comments on our new features policy, please let us know!

All the best,

Lara
The Trello Team

johndatadavies

Thanks Lara. Could you link to this thread in the feature suggestion so the product team have more context please?. The way it's currently worded could be confusing — there is already the ability to view all labels, we would like it to always show all labels as a permanent option.

Lara

Hi John,

That's been done! I've added a link to this Community Post as an internal comment on the feature suggestion.

Please let us know if you have any other questions, and we'll be happy to help.

All the best,

Lara
The Trello Team

johndatadavies

Hello again, just a little bump from me to ask if this has been looked at?

I love Trello, have been an avid user for many years and it's an essential part of my life, at work and outside of work. But I'm having to paste in the below JS hack / workaround every single time I use Trello, which is every day, and it's driving me insane.

It's really such an annoying speedbump in the core workflow of Trello and the solution to fix it should probably take half an hour to code up. Is Trello still in active development as a product? Or is all the work going into Jira now?

Invite me to the repo and I'll do it for you if you like (lol). Pretty please?

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Oleksandr

Hi!

In Trello’s built-in Labels popover, there doesn’t seem to be a setting that keeps the full labels list expanded by default. So if you have many labels, the standard flow still requires opening the card labels menu and then using “Show more labels” to see the rest.

One workaround is to use a separate labels interface instead of relying only on the native Trello popover. For example, the Board Assistant Power-Up adds its own “BA Labels” button inside the card, in the Board Assistant section. When you click it, it opens a separate labels window where labels can be displayed in a more organized layout.

In that window, you can search labels, choose how many labels are shown per row, use different sorting options, and create label groups. Each group can have its own sorting logic, such as custom order, alphabetical order, color-based sorting, frequency, or new-to-old / old-to-new sorting. So instead of expanding the default Trello label list every time, you can manage and apply labels from that separate organized view.

It doesn’t replace the native Trello Labels button, but it can make working with many labels much easier.

Board Assistant:
https://trello.com/power-ups/685016dd47b5654ae385bba6

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