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Nested Grouping

alucab opened this issue · comments

Nested grouping is in this moment the feature that i really would like to see, at least two levels.

That would enable a huge amount of applications, it is the thing that really kills Seatable wrt Airtable at the moment

Thanks for your job guys

This feature is available in SeaTable enterprise edition.

it's not clear from the documentation, the only hting stated is that this is not available at all.
any plan to make it available in the paid version ?

Well, I think I had mis-understood your requirements. I thought you mean nested group for users.

If you mean nested group for rows in a table, it is not available yet. But it will be soon added within a few months for the community edition.

thx !

I strongly support this feature suggestion, and like to add a few arguments.

As noted before, such a feature can be considered as a recursive, indefinite grouping: Taking one field of the table that refers to the table itself, i.e. a "parent" (generic nodes) or "reports to" (employee table) relation. Using a table field, this would

  • not only make the data transparent which is the basis for the hierarchy (see example below)
  • but would also make it possible to have multiple hierarchies in one table
  • finally make this a killer feature, because hierarchies are everywhere (outlines, categories, projects, org charts, topics ...)

Last, but not least, this would be a killer feature that sets seatable apart from airtable. Airtable has an "org chart" plugin, but no editable table view. What I mean with this is illustrated by a screen shot from OpenProject, where you can have infinite levels of tasks, subtasks, milestones etc.

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Here's basically the same data in seatable, plus a table relation "Child of". Imagine a view option that could take this field and create an editable table view - OpenProject would be obsolete:

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The current grouping, with it's single level, is a poor replacement. And not even that.

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The feature has been implemented in the latest version.

Thanks for implementing this!

However, after testing, I consider this a very limited replacement for a real hierarchy, if it even is one. So my original comment can now be considered as a separate feature request. And an important one, because Seatable could be so much more versatile with a true hierarchy implemented.