Possible to use Kanban-Only View as a default?

[manuel_kammermann]

Hi all, fantastic to see all the feedback from the beta. I myself don't have access, but I have a usecase and wonder if anyone might be able to help.

We use Trello as a means to foster agile ways of working, so truly leveraging the Kanban Board. With all the news about the scheduler view, there's a lot of talk that our teams cannot use Trello as we did.

So here's my question: Is it possible (even if there are initial configuration steps involved) to have a URL that opens a specific Kanban-Board without the scheduler view (basically similar to now when I have a Trello URL)?

Thanks for any insights you might have.

Best regards

Manuel

[Gaurav Kataria]

@manuel_kammermann The newly launched features (Inbox and Planner) can easily be hidden when not needed

[manuel_kammermann]

Hi @Gaurav Kataria thanks for your swift reply! Do you know if this will be possible to configure via the URL?

Let's assume I prepare a board for my team, and I want to share it with them. Can I send a link where the inbox, calendar etc. are toggled to hidden?

[Nils Geylen]

Not sure how you "cannot use Trello as [you] did" entirely, but I'm guessing you mean your users may now be distracted by possible planners and inboxes appearing expanded on a first visit?

I don't see a way to prevent that natively, just like an admin can't prevent even observers to have their comments/activity pane expanded or hidden, have lists collapsed or not, or where they dock the Switcher.

These aren't board settings but user-defined (browser-based) preferences.

I took Trello some time to make a board calendar view link work by adding /calendar-view, but either this or Table, Timeline etc. are independent of a user's interface prefs.

(Just maybe it might be possible to create a user script slash addon slash power-up that 'manages' this through the Browser Tools but I feel that's unlikely and possibly not secure--and you'd still be dependent on the user running this extension...)

cc @Gaurav Kataria 

I've been going through Trello's suggested use cases, and I feel that while Atlassian proposes solutions like Resource Hubs, Onboarding etc. to me that doesn't jive with all the variables you'd have to deal with when sharing a board.

While I understand it's always been a core tenet of Trello to be personal and collaborative instead of top-down managed, there is simply very little control of what your users' environment is going to actually look like.

When Trello was still limited in features, this wasn't much of a problem. Now Trello has improved hugely, but Atlassian seems to want to keep having it both ways and that's becoming difficult to maintain. 

So, to finish, I do think the Trello team needs to consider the difference between in-house high-activity working team environments, as opposed to external, low-interaction static presentational boards. 

Addendum: perhaps there are possibilities with managed accounts or even the Enterprise plan but I'm not at all familiar with those.