Why Does Card Mirroring Require Full Access to the Original Board?
A mirror card is only visible to users who have access to the mirrored source.
I can come up with a lot of reasons why that is.
Members should obviously not be sharing board contents not everyone is allowed to see.
Okay, but imagine another use case...
Say I have a product board, a store location board, and a PR board.
They're all for internal use in their entirety, but now I want to share a catalogue of cards to some of my customers.
I mirror a few samples from each source to my new target board and add a couple people as observers.
They have no access to the mirrored sources, so they get this:
They see the mirror card placeholders but not the contents, and all they can do is request 'access to the card'.
However, on my end, that translates as 'so-and-so wants to join your board'...
Which is indeed a no go--I'm not gonna allow outside observers to all my source boards!
So unless there's a technical reason, why shouldn't I be able to:
- share a board with mirror cards with observers
- have them see the mirror card, and its contents
- have them get the message "You are viewing this [mirror] card outside of its original [mirrored] location"
- have them not get the option "For more actions, go to the card’s original location"
That would be a Mirror & Show approach I was hoping to get.
Or at least some board option to "Allow observers to see mirror cards"...
Mirroring solved a lot of troubles with copying cards, and then having to go edit and update every possible duplicate if the original changed.
But I was a bit disappointed when I saw this limitation.
So does this have a technical reason, or is it a programmed decision?
Seems like just another instance where Trello assumes everyone is tightly grouped within a team but apparently never shares stuff outside.