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I still think that when an creating a Forum, the Admin should be able to choose if joining the forum is voluntary or automatic.  That setting could be toggled at any time by the General Admin or the Forum Admin.

I asked the question to Ryver Support and they replied.

QUESTION to Ryver Support:
I have noticed that the only Forum that has all the employees of the company in its roster is the ALL HANDS.  I have also noticed that less than half of our users have joined to the other forums.  Is there any way to make other forums MANDATORY or AUTOMATIC JOIN or whatever you call it by ALL USERS?


ANSWER by Ryver Support:
That is correct. The only Forum that all users must be joined to (and cannot leave) is the “All Hands” Forum.  We do have a Feedback Item to add a Forum setting that will mimic the “All Hands” - force going all members but this has not yet been scheduled.  You can “Force” join users by adding their email addresses in the “Invite user” item on the Navbar and adding the Forum name(s) you want them to join. I recommend using the “Looking to invite a lot of people” link so you can add multiple email addresses.  If you add/have a nickname to your Forums, you can add the following to a chat message in “All Hands” to request that they join. The “+nickname” creates a link to the forum. If they click and move to the Forum - they will be joined.:
Hey @team - please check out our new forum for xxxxx +nickname

Agreed.  Tasks could have links.  Same as Chats and Topics do.

What I would like is the ability to see sortable lists, with one line per task and several columns, with the ability to easily add, remove, move and resize columns of data.  Exactly as outlook tasks, like for example these columns:

In outlook tasks view I can add more columns, remove existing columns, move column position, resize columns, sort by any columns.


When you have just a few tasks in Kanban View, it's no big deal.  But when you have hundreds of tasks, the ability to view them in sortable adjustable tables like outlook tasks lets you prioritize quickly.

Is anybody monitoring these comments?

Just to make it clear... what I mean with this idea is that we users need to be able to ASSIGN TASKS DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER USER and not be required to do it through a Team or Forum.

I summary, the STAR button in Ryver would be a shortcut to REMINDER/RIGHT NOW.

Right now you can change the TASK LAYOUT MODE between:


BOARD: Category based columns with drag and drop
and
LIST: Simple flat list with checkboxes to complete.

*The LIST option adds: NOTE: your categories will be removed.

I propose that this switch is split into 3 options:  Board, Simple List, Complete Table.  And make it possible to easily switch back. The categories from the Board should not be lost when switching to Simple list.  They would just not show.  But, the Complete table should have all the possible columns with data (similar to the data that tasks in Outlook have).  Then the system should be able to let the user sort and filter in any possible way.

The switching should be both ways of course.