Can someone point me to detailed feature documentation for standard and pro?

[G.W. Swicord]

Hi, Trello world,

Trello Standard and Pro seats are expensive. I'm interested in technical documentation that hopefully includes use cases to learn about the additional features that come with with the Standard and Pro SKUs.

I am not at all interested in marketing material unless it is specifically written for a technical audience. I want to inform myself about the specific utility of features that are not available in the Free SKU so that I can decide whether or not to pitch an upgrade to my leadership.

We currently use Trello in combination with EverHour to track projects and staff time spent on them. I'm especially interested in whether 'custom fields' or another feature could provide a manageable UI for time-tracking 'sheets.' It might justify the cost of Standard if we could build something that would let us link out from a project card to detailed time-use data and analyze that data by person, project, and task.

Regards,
G.W. Swicord

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Theses and Dissertations Project Manager
George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida

[Mat]

Hi G.W! 

Thank you for taking the time to share your use case with us. Trello does not offer natively a time tracking feature but different features within Trello can help achieve that, depending on what UI or workflow you'd like to expect in a Trello card for your time tracking needs. 

From a quick overview, these are the features available according to plans: https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/which-trello-plan-is-best-for-me 

Features to note is Workspace Calendar view or the per board Calendar view. Let me know if you have any questions around any of the Standard or Premium features that will tie to your use case and I am happy to explain that more in detail.

Feel free to share more details of your use case or requirements. Additionally, you can create a ticket here if these details are not for public viewing.

With regards to introduction to custom fields: 

• custom field is available on Trello Standard and above.
• We have a resource limit of 50 custom fields per board.  We also have a limit of 50 dropdown options per custom field.
• Getting started on all things custom field - take note of grouping custom fields across boards and also moving and copying boards and cards with custom fields
• If you go to our Rest API documentation, click Search on the upper right and type in "custom field", you can see all our APIs related to custom fields. 
• We don't have a Dashboard view that displays custom field metrics although we have a feature request on it. If you're interested let us know and please share your use case so I can pass it along to the relevant team. That being said, we currently don't have a platform that will offer data analysis on custom fields, but there could be some Trello Power-ups that might help with that
• If you want to manually search for custom field values, this is only done per board. You can search on custom fields by filtering cards on a board instead of searching for cards in all boards in the main search box. The keyword filter will search for the text inside of the card title or custom field. Here's more information on filtering by keyword.
• You can take advantage of automation when working with custom fields through variables and you can perform basic arithmetic operations on your Number type custom fields as well as Date type custom fields

Let me know if there's any questions you have!

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