Managing Label Groups

Question

Label groups on Loop pages are awesome. I love that they can be applied to not only table columns, but whole pages in general. However, it seems that label groups created on one page, are not available on any other pages in the workspace? Am I missing a really obvious way to make label groups available workspace-wide or even Loop-wide so they can be used on other page in other workspaces?

Also, I do see how to add new label groups, edit titles and/or colors of labels in an existing label group, and remove labels from a label group, but not how to add labels to an existing label group? Or even delete a label group I no longer need? Anyone know if there is a way to manage label groups globally within Loop to remove label groups, add labels to existing groups, or make label groups available on any other page than the one where there were created?

Answer 1

....and I just answered one of my own questions. To add a new label to an existing label group, type the new label into a blank table cell where the label group is applied and the new label will be added to the group. You may also apply a label to a page and when choosing a different label at the page level, "add label" is an option there.

I have also discovered that a label group can be transferred to a new page if you apply the label group to a page (not a table column), select the label element on the page, then copy and paste it to a new page. The title and options of that label are now available on the new page. This has to be done one label group at a time it appears.

Answer 2

Hello - You can edit the predefined values after you add them to your table, there is little pencil icon next to the value.

Answer 3

Follow up to my own question. Oddly, if you copy a table which has custom label groups applied to it, and paste the table into a new page, the label groups are still functional in the table columns where they were applied (meaning, those custom label options are still selectable and changeable in the table cells), but if you change column type and go to "label" to choose a different label group, only the standard label groups (Status, Progress, Priority) are listed as options - the custom label group currently applied to that column (even though it is working and displaying correctly) is not on the list of available label groups.

Answer 4

Not being able to edit a label group and its values makes the use of labels... unusable!

Answer 5

I just discovered that you CAN edit the label group by simply typing the new selection you want in a "blank" cell. As soon as you start typing, a pop-up to "Add option" appears. If a selection had already been made, I simply hit backspace or delete to clear it, and then I could start typing the new thing. I put "blank" in quotes because the "blank" cell actually said "Add option" in it before I selected a label, which might have been obvious if I wasn't looking where I created the label to find an edit option.

For example, I created a label group called "Attendance" with the selections "Present" and "Not present." Almost immediately, I realized I wanted options for "Came late" or "Left early" to show that someone wasn't there for the whole meeting, and I added them as above.