{"id":27593,"date":"2019-06-14T17:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenkit.com\/?p=27593"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:07:37","slug":"feature-spotlight-public-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenkit.com\/en\/blog\/feature-spotlight-public-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Spotlight: Public Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Public views are one of those subtle changes our dev team likes to slide into updates without much fanfare. They came out as part of our Zenkit 3.0<\/a> update, but I feel they haven’t received the love they deserve.<\/p>\n

Not to be confused with published views<\/a>, public views allow you to share a view you’ve created with other members of your collection.<\/p>\n

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Say you’ve created the perfect Kanban view for your team: You’ve got your lists sorted by task status, and swimlanes set up grouped by an assigned member. You’ve attached a filter so that only the highest-priority tasks appear.<\/p>\n

You ask your team to check their Kanban view to look at your productivity masterpiece, but all they see is the standard layout, with no filter of swimlanes in sight. What’s gone wrong?<\/p>\n

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Public and Private Views<\/strong><\/h2>\n

All Zenkit views are private by default, and it used to be that views could only<\/em> be private. This is because we’ve always built Zenkit to be as flexible as possible so everyone can use it in exactly the way they want, without frames or structures being imposed on them by us. However, restricting views to private only means that teams that work together miss out on being able to share the workflows or structures they build themselves.<\/p>\n

It may not come as a surprise, but in the example above, the issue was that the view was still set to private so nobody else on the team could see it \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n

Luckily, publishing a view is super simple. When you’re editing any view, you’ll see a toggle right at the bottom of the menu with ‘Public’ next to it.<\/p>\n

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Click that on and voil\u00e0!<\/i> the view appears in a new ‘Public’ section in your views menu and it becomes visible to everyone else in your collection.<\/p>\n

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How to Use Public Views<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Personally, I really enjoy creating custom views, so I’ve got a ton of private ones for tasks assigned to me with my Kanban set up exactly as I like it, or with a calendar of my most important deadlines. However, our team also have several public views set up so we can all get an idea of how our tasks fit into the big picture.<\/p>\n

There are loads of ways you can create public views to help boost your team’s productivity and make sure everyone is on the same page:<\/p>\n