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title: "Swimlanes and grouping"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/BPEdc/2533491966/Swimlanes%20and%20grouping"
format: markdown
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## Available swimlanes

![image-20240909-074940.png](media://48689ed0-646a-428c-bd9a-2957823d5df2)

The new view lets you organize data into the following swimlanes:

| **Swimlane** | **Result** |
| --- | --- |
| **Individuals ** | People assigned to tasks (assignee) |
| **Teams ** | BigPicture teams (go to the teams module to review the teams). |
| **Projects **[new] | Sub-boxes (for a project box that would be lower-level boxes, such as Program Increments, Iterations, Stages, Sprints etc.; for a portfolio box those would be project boxes in a portfolio) |
| **Skills **[New] | BigPicture skills assigned to tasks |

## Grouping 

The new grouping mechanism allows for a **two-level grouping** of tasks. Grouping provides you with better insight into your portfolio. Now, you can easily track things like individual allocation and workload across projects and teams.  

![image](media://e43f5f57-451c-4b8a-a6e9-4ce4baea9bb7)

> ✅ Adjust the view to ensure you get the most out of your data.

Thanks to grouping, you can get **high-level insights into your projects on a portfolio level **(see a few examples):

- Based on assigned tasks, what is the workload assigned to each person in a project.

![image-20240312-092142.png](media://ac420a91-dd06-46d7-a99d-f29da0c61e3e)

- What percentage of individuals' capacity is allocated to a project.

![image-20240320-054200.png](media://3260e141-e460-41a1-b8af-ce81a27bcaaa)

- Workload associated with timeboxes on a project level (insight into the person’s aggregate workload in each timebox)

![image-20240311-150428.png](media://f0bf6b89-5813-40af-b866-3bd91e242388)

## Manage grouping

### Activate grouping

> ✅ Adjust the view to ensure you get the most out of your data.

First, select the main swimlane. Then, select how to group the data further into additional swimlanes. 

![Group resourece module swimlanes.mp4](media://d9150c95-4d00-41d9-8916-0b55c45bf475)

> 📝 **Note: **Grouping is unavailable when the box you are in doesn’t have sub-boxes.

### Grouping combinations

The new mechanism currently allows for the following grouping combinations:

1. **Individuals** by:
  1. **projects **(sub-boxes)
  2. **teams**
2. **Teams** by:
  1. **projects **(sub-boxes)
  2. **individuals**
3. **projects **(sub-boxes) by:
  1. **individuals**
  2. **teams**

### Clear grouping

Click the orange dot to clear the grouping. 

![image-20240819-103711.png](media://19a4254b-6832-4ae4-a153-343eeb83dced)

> Macro (anchor)



## View adjustment

Make adjustments to ensure you get the insights you’re after. 

| **Settings** | **Options** |
| --- | --- |
| **Time period** | Y - Year<br>H - Half Year<br>Q - Quater<br>M - Month<br>W - Week<br>![Time period buttons.](media://75f4a115-14d4-461a-92db-31f3834a5de6) |
| **Aggregation** | ![A dropdown menu with the time period aggregation options.](media://a11c496c-49ea-4b18-bdf3-15cfcd2e761c) |
| **Effort mode** | ![image-20240320-081828.png](media://251d83e2-6849-45cd-bfb8-3e14d799d32b) |
| **View** | ![image-20240320-081905.png](media://ab7eeff4-c0d0-4b24-8661-dc16f66a4bae) |

## Affected by

- [Coloring rules](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BPEdc/pages/2533753985) when grouping.