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title: "Swimlanes and grouping"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/DLP/2211941546/Swimlanes%20and%20grouping"
format: markdown
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> Macro (aura-html)

## Available swimlanes

![image-20240909-074940.png](media://f126f0f8-5e21-4ca2-93ed-ecb13b37b8b3)

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://44904fd9-e4b5-4639-a412-56ede457ec93)

> ✅ 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://5543fdb3-0b4d-4139-b3e1-ca41e9c3861f)

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

![image-20240320-054200.png](media://cde33b25-2fa2-4d3f-bbb1-67f56ed2a454)

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

![image-20240311-150428.png](media://7afa82a9-7d3b-4e04-9060-04cb99287297)

## 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://ceac4a48-70ae-482a-8667-bc19e966da0b)

> 📝 **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://9aa436ae-c4c0-41ab-8ade-4426bdd34c47)

> 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://920db756-6ce8-459c-8913-8e53842e621d) |
| **Aggregation** | ![A dropdown menu with the time period aggregation options.](media://586a133f-8ae5-470d-9c6b-381818c937c6) |
| **Effort mode** | ![image-20240320-081828.png](media://f01a3988-bbe5-42fc-97fb-8778ef903e4b) |
| **View** | ![image-20240320-081905.png](media://471adbe4-b494-404b-9169-e779a9bc1183) |

## Affected by

- [Coloring rules](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=dlpdraft&title=NEW%20Resource%20coloring%20rules&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=2024288027) when grouping.