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Larger cards on grid view
Post posted March 5, 2010 by Olivier Grandjean
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Larger cards on grid view
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One issue with the grid view is that the title of the card gets cut off and there's no way to "expand" the card to show the entire title.
We're wanting to use Mingle as the sole task board, instead of having a physical wall AND update Mingle. Not being able to see the full story title is a barrier to moving from a physical space to a virtual wall.
Has anyone successed in adjusting the size or even customizing the fields show (I believe there is another thread on this, but no solution yet)?
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Any idea? Has anyone else encountered that problem? And even if you didn't resolve it by being able to show the full title of a card, how were you able to circumvent it?
Hi Olivier
How long are the titles that you would like to see? Are they much longer than the current card size allows?
- Suzie
We use the " As a..., I want to... so that..." format. Combined with an effort to have small stories, this gives us explicit story titles that often don't even require narratives.
The grid display cards can show ~45 characters. Our cards often are mroe than 100 character long.
The 2 sentences above are just about 100 characters, by the way :)
We use physical wall with index cards and mingle too, but i can't imagine having story titles of 100+ characters on either format due to the lack of space for me writing legibly, and the story being understood at a glance, do you print your cards out? We do use 'As a ... ' within the description, but the title is just a few words that summarise the story, maybe 10 at most. That with the mingle number are enough reference to know what it is about for tracking, having seen the detail in mingle.
One approach might be to eliminate the redundant text that is always there (as in your description above) which would save 22 characters, result might be e.g. Customer;Search my Orders;I can check delivery dates.
If you do need to know more then you can click on the card. But I guess what you are really after is a Project setting for the max size of a card, which remains static even in Maximize view?
I am thinking of just having mingle too and would be interested in your thoughts on how you are thinking of displaying the card wall, is it on a wall mounted screen, or a dedicated PC /projector for interactive use?