Table view

Route: /org/tasks?view=table · Permission: View Tasks

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1. What the table view is

A spreadsheet of the same tasks — columns you choose and put in your own order, most of them editable in place. It exists for the job the other views are bad at: changing the same field on many tasks in a row without opening anything.

The view switcher tooltips it plainly: "Table View (inline edit)".

	Table (this page)	List	Kanban
Editable fields	13	4	Status only
Columns	Your choice and order, horizontally scrolling	Your choice and order, collapsible	Statuses
Selection and bulk actions	No	Yes	No
Pagination footer	No	Yes	No
Row actions	Comments only	Four	Two

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2. How the table fits the workspace

It shares filtering and grouping with the List view — the same helpers drive both, so a filter set in one behaves identically in the other.

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3. Using the table — step by step

Figure 1 — The table with its default columns. Pips: 1 Filters, 2 Views, 3 Columns.

Step 1 · Read the columns

The columns below are in their default order. Everything is shown until you choose otherwise, except Logged and Created.

#	Column	Editable	Control
1	Type	✅	Select
2	Key	—	The task reference. Always shown
3	Risk	—	The task's risk badge
4	Summary	✅	Text input. Always shown
5	Status	✅	Select — limited to permitted transitions
6	💬	—	Opens comments. Tooltip "Open comments"
7	Assignee	✅	Select, Unassigned default
8	Priority	✅	Select
9	Category	✅	Select, — when unset
10	Due date	✅	Date
11	Start date	✅	Date
12	Est (h)	✅	Number, min 0, step 0.5
13	Rem (h)	✅	Number, min 0, step 0.5
14	Value	✅	Number — only in a project that puts a value on its tasks
15	Milestone	✅	Select, — when unset
16	Billable	✅	Toggle
17	Tags	✅	Tag chips with an add… input
18	Logged (h)	—	Hours logged so far. Off until you tick it
19	Created	—	The day the task was created. Off until you tick it

Step 2 · Choose and order the columns

Figure 2 — The Columns panel. Key and Summary carry a lock; Logged and Created are off until you tick them.

Click Columns beside the search box.

• Tick or untick a column to show or hide it. The table redraws at once.
• Drag the handle on the left of a row to move that column. Its place in the list is its place in the table, left to right.
• Tick all / Untick all at the foot, and Reset to default to go back to the order above.

Key and Summary carry a lock: they can be moved but never hidden, so the table always says which task a row is. Untick everything else and those two remain.

Your choice is saved for you, not for the project or the team. It follows you to another browser and survives signing out; a colleague opening the same project sees their own. The List view keeps a separate choice of its own.

Pair the columns with a filter

Put Value beside Due date, then filter to Due date before Today — see Filtering and grouping. A saved view keeps the filter; the columns stay as you left them.

Empty: No tasks match the current filters.

Step 3 · Edit a cell

Every edit saves as soon as you commit it — there is no Save button and no undo:

Control	Commits on
Type, Status, Assignee, Priority, Category, Milestone	Choosing an option
Due date, Start date	Changing the date
Est (h), Rem (h)	Leaving the field
Summary	Leaving the field, or Enter
Billable	Toggling
Tags	Enter or comma; Backspace on an empty input removes the last

Unchanged values are not sent — retyping the same summary or estimate makes no request.

There is no undo, and no confirmation

The table is the fastest way to change a lot of tasks and the fastest way to change the wrong one. The activity history records what changed, which is the only way back.

Step 4 · Change status

The status select offers only the transitions the workflow permits from the row's current status — the illegal ones are not in the list at all.

This is the clearest place to see your workflow at work

Kanban refuses an illegal drop silently. Here the illegal options simply are not offered, which makes a mis-drawn workflow obvious immediately.

Step 5 · Group

Group rows span the full width and collapse on click, showing a colour dot — or the person's avatar when grouping by assignee — the group name, and (n).

Step 6 · Scroll

The table is wider than the window by design; it scrolls horizontally with a sticky header row.

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4. Field reference

Where each select's values come from

Column	Source
Type	Task types
Status	Statuses, filtered by the workflow
Assignee	Project members
Priority	Priorities
Category	Task categories
Milestone	Project milestones

Est (h) and Rem (h)

Est is the estimate; Rem is remaining effort. Both accept half-hour steps and refuse negatives. They are re-keyed on every save, so a value corrected by the server is reflected rather than left as you typed it.

What the table does not have

Missing	Use instead
Checkbox selection and bulk actions	List view
Pagination controls	List view's footer — the table shows the same page
Log Time	List view or Kanban
Add Subtask	List view
A description column	The detail panel

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5. The admin contract

Editing a column needs the permission for that field, exactly as elsewhere:

Column	Permission
Status	Change Status of Task
Assignee	Manage Task Assignment / Allow Change Task Assigne
Due date	Change Task Due Date
Est (h)	Change Estimation of a Task
Everything else	Edit Tasks

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6. Downstream

An inline edit is an ordinary task update: it appears in the activity history, sends the same notifications, and a status change runs the workflow's actions and conditions.

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7. Don't confuse this with…

Thing	Where	Why it is different
Table view (this page)	?view=table	Inline editing, no selection
List view	?view=list	Selection, bulk actions, pagination
Bulk actions	Bulk actions	Same change to many tasks at once, from the list
Timesheet grid	My Timesheets	Hours per day, not task fields

To change one field on twenty tasks, use bulk actions — not this table

The table is one task at a time, quickly. Bulk actions are twenty tasks at once, in a single operation. They look like the same job and are not.

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8. Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause
A status is missing from the dropdown	The workflow does not permit it from the current status
A cell will not accept input	The matching field permission is missing
An edit disappeared	It saved, then the server returned a corrected value
No checkboxes	The table has no selection — use the list
No page controls	The table shows the list's current page
Columns run off screen	It scrolls horizontally by design — or hide the ones you do not need with Columns
A column is missing	It is unticked in Columns. Value also needs the project to put a value on its tasks
A colleague sees different columns	Column choices are per person
Hide Done left tasks visible	The table matches by hard-coded status id — see Filtering

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Related

• List view · Bulk actions
• Workflow — why some statuses are missing