Hey everyone! One of the biggest struggles we are immediately having in 2019.1 is how the template view and (live) task view look SO different and we've lost a major design element that we didn't fully realize how much we relied on. In the template task list, you still have bold text going all the way across the screen for a parent task: It's a wonderful visual cue to see where parents start/stop so you can ensure that your steps/milestones are in their proper round, especially when you're viewing on wider screens or using a view w/a lot of columns. But once you use the templates in a project... Most of the formatting is gone: (The sudden left/right scrolling and lack of screen responsiveness is also a major problem for my team as we are constantly docking/undocking our laptops, but that's neither here nor there right now. ;-) I worked w/the WF folks a few weeks ago in Beta and showed them how we used this screen. I emphasized that losing the bold was making it really hard for me to figure out where I'm supposed to be in our tasks. While I forewarned my PM team of the change, now that it's live, the complaints are rolling in fast and furious from both inside and outside of my group. My biggest take away is that everyone had visually trained themselves to find the bold copy and then down to the deadlines (one of the farthest right columns). Without that cue, people are literally using their fingers to trace across the screen to make sure they're on the correct task line. Seems like we're taking an analog step backwards here. Naturally, we have a lot (a LOT!) of templates and hundreds of active projects right now, so I'm trying to get this "fixed" as quickly as possible to help everyone. I've temporarily added a "Can Start" column (which we use in our dashboard reports and people are familiar with) to add a pop of color and push dates a little closer to their names. I'm not a huge fan of adding this column because it's indicating "READY" on a Round 2 parent task that is very much NOT ready. Does anyone have any suggestions for a quick-fix way to replicate the template where the parent task--just the parent task--is in bold? Or somehow make it clear where groupings begin/end? ETA : Literally two minutes after I posted this, one of my designers came up to me and asked "Did you do something to my Workfront? Can you put my task screen back to how it was?" Thanks!! Bree Main General Nutrition Centers, Inc.
