Badge Display
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Is there a way to change the summary that is displayed on the badge in the badge view layout? For instance, I have modified a contact app to include a photo for members. I would like the badge view to display thier photo and their name. Right now the badge displays their photo and their contact category (another field in the app). Can I change this?
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I would say that ANY view needs to be configurable, not just badge view. One field only (be that the first one or random) is seldom enough to efficiently contextualize an item throughout an organisation. I think three fields could be flexible enough, and still fit into pretty much any view.
That would make it possible (optionally of course) to include (pretty much) ANY three fields as part of a global item identification, in badges, cards, but also streams, reference field lists, etc. anywhere except where all fields get (potentially) displayed as in table views.
This would allow a milestone item to be identified not only by it's first field (especially for use case like where workflows have fixed milestones, so there is absolutely no way to know what project a “Report” belongs to in a reference field lookup menu, or in a stream...) ; three fields would allow for combinations like :
Project # - CLIENT - Project title
Project title - Milestone - Deliverable
...etc. to be displayed in ALL views, through item's reference, category, date, text fields, etc. (image field could be used in badge or card, and discarded in streams and list).
Even two fields would be a workable start.
FWIW.
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- one from us too. The whole point of lists is to create a high level view. So one needs control of the information displayed.
I'd also add that it is desirable to add instructions for how comments are added. We find our users get confused where to leave comments, especially in nested applications. They may do it against the parent item (eg a project), the child item (eg a deliverable) or a task.
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customizing may be a little far fetched considering all the applications created by many other people, at least a scrollbar or displaying all the data would work better than what is currently displayed.
a customizable badge view would really be awesome but these could be a quick initial solution.
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@Cuneyt Terzi - can't see any reason why it should be far fetched. There already seems to be a 'pecking order' for including fields in the badge display (eg, if there is a description type field, it gets included in priority to other fields). All that is needed is an extra check box (include field in badge), rather like the required field checkbox. Then the badge would show checked fields in the order they appear in the form.
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@David Nunn
hi David, i agree with you 100%. my suggestion was based on my assumption that; if this feature which is kind of very easy to see how important, is not implemented in the first place, i guessed that it requires some infrastructure level modifications.
i believe the users' (like us) discussion does not matter as much as the original developer of the badge view coming here and saying why they did not do it in the first place. maybe it is part of the paid product. i am a free user using this site for a non-paid project so my guesses can only go so far :)
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Here is a workaround in the meantime:
I noticed that the badge displays the first few fields from the app. So you can do this:
- Go to your app
- Choose Modify App
- Move the fields you want to see in the badge to the top of the list
- Save
- Done! :)
Of course, this will effect the order of the fields every time you create a new app item, but maybe you can live with that. And I will welcome customisable badge and especially card views.
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Podio needs an option to automatically update the "Date" field. For better Badge identification and also to allow filtering of projects by Date:
Dates need automatic updating when info is changed/added to an item. This should be very easy for Podio, why the delay?
Manually updating Dates means they're usually not updated; we miss an invaluable tool as Dates help us filter projects which have grown cold.
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Yes, really need customisable badge views - only been using podio 2 days and while I think its great, the badge view is no good to me without being able to choose what goes on it (but if I could, it would be very useful).
Also +1 to having an automatic 'last updated' date field option - would be super useful to do calculations on such as the how many days/weeks/months its been since somebody touched a record (for sales leads or software bugfixes).
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