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Subtask Sections (aka Subsections) - The Hidden Story

This incredibly useful feature is completely hidden in the Asana user interface and I don’t think it’s documented either, but it’s been there forever and good to remember about. It looks like this:...

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Visibility of all Recurring tasks

I question came up today, I didn’t know how to answer. We created a weekly recurring task, but couldn’t see all of the tasks in the calendar only the next week. Is there a way to view all of the...

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Make Task templates available to other projects (Task templates library)

The new task templates functionality is great, but what seriously limits (and likely eradicates) its usefulness is the fact that a Task template is only available in the Project it was created in. Our...

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Reverse the order of comments

Please allow the comments to be sorted with the most recent comments shown at the top, so we don’t have to scroll down a long list of comments to find the latest ones. This should really be the...

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Holiday/Leave/Block off time - either as PTO, Holiday, or all day task

Holiday/ Leave schedule - It would be great to have a section where you could put in ‘Away’ days for leave or holiday and you can not add tasks on these days or be assigned tasks on these days. Alert...

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Code snippets in Asana

It would be nice to be able to paste in Asana snippets of code (for example in Python or Javascript) and be able to format it in some way. Maybe using the github markdown or something similar. We work...

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Recurring Tasks on certain day/week of month not the actual day

Currently, when scheduling a recurring task, you have the option to recur on a specific day of the month. It would be helpful to be able to schedule a certain day of the month. Example: First Monday...

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Asana Implementation Process: Best practices and lessons learned from...

The implementation of new software in a company is always a hard challenge. No doubt! I felt I should write about this topic, because I have implemented Asana in a couple of companies over the last...

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Viewing all assigned tasks across multiple workspaces

I am part of multiple workspaces. Is there a way that I can see all of the tasks assigned to me in one place, even if they are related to projects in multiple workspaces? 287 posts - 224 participants...

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🔥 Hottest feature requests and their workarounds

Hi all, Asana isn’t perfect or at least isn’t perfect for everyone. Like any software, there are open feature requests and some of them are hosting really heated debates! I believe the workarounds...

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Ability to export timeline

For various reasons we may have a need to provide a snapshot without the need to invite someone as a member or collaborator. The ability to do a quick export to a PDF would be very useful. 177 posts -...

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New! Track time on your Tasks in Asana ⏱

Hi Asana Community We’re super excited to announce that native time tracking in Asana is here! With this new feature, users can track estimated and actual time spent on tasks. This time data helps...

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Push Notifications at 'Due Time'

I think I’m still at a bit of a loss as to why ‘due time’ exists as data to populate if it doesn’t prompt an action. I.E., tasks with a ‘date due’ show up in your inbox on, well, the day it’s due....

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Feature request: Markdown

Please, PLEASE, for the love of god, allow us to use Markdown in tasks and comments in Asana. It’s more or less the lingua franca for developers who need to write formatted text on the web at this...

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Ability to copy sections including all tasks in that section

I would like the ability to copy an entire section of a project including all tasks within that section. When you copy the section you would be able to give it a new name and all tasks would be...

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Asana for Desktop: Now Available for Early Access!

Hi, everyone I’m excited to announce that we’ve opened up Early Access to Asana for Desktop! Asana’s native desktop app helps you remove distractions so you can focus on the most important work at...

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The coolest Asana rules 😎

Hi , When you discovered the Automation feature, with its triggers and actions, you probably thought “yeah that is cool, I could use it to automate a bunch of stuff like complete a task when a status...

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To Subtask or not to Subtask

I made a comment on another thread that I’m not a big fan of subtasks, and @Alexis asked me to elaborate—so here we go! It’s not that subtasks don’t have value, I just think they are easily overused...

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Assign multiple assignees on one task

There are cases when adding more than one person to a task as assignee would be very handy. 709 posts - 467 participants Read full topic

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Allow to automatically add subtasks to project

I’d like subtasks to automatically be attached to the project so I don’t have add them manually if I want to see them in the calendar view. Please and thank you. 313 posts - 172 participants Read full...

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Global Rules would rule! Create a library for Rules

This would be a dream for me and I’m sure a nightmare to program but my hope is that on the Asana road map there is a milestone that would allow a rule we’ve created to be discoverable across all...

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Allow Rules for Subtasks

I would request that you would add or allow us to create rules based on subtasks. For example in a project flow - I have a task that contains multiple sub-tasks. This task is connected to my editorial...

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Use Custom Date Field in Calendar View

We have a custom "Publish Date’ field that we are using for a Content Schedule on Asana. Is it possible to have Calendar View display dates based on this field instead of Due Date? (We are oin a...

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Default layout saves open lists of sub-tasks

My team uses the list view of all tasks (completed and incomplete) as the default layout, but the system doesn’t remember how we have tasks and listed sub-tasks open or collapsed. Is it possible to...

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Allowing for duplicating of Project Templates

I am loving Project Templates 2.0 but one thing I wish it had so far while using has been the ability to duplicate a project template. My team uses an Asana project template for onboarding and I want...

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Suggestion: "Run Rules Now" button

I think it would be fantastic to add a “run rules now” button for projects and My Tasks. There have been times when I wish I could run rules on demand, such as when I just updated the due dates on a...

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Introducing Project Notes!

Hi Asana community! I’m Eileen from the Asana product marketing team. I’m excited to share that we’re launching a new project view called Notes! This view is super versatile – perfect for meeting...

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Increase the limit of 250 rule actions used per month on Starter tier

I have per my mistake, asked my Asana manager to change my account to starter from premium to see if the new rules could be useful in some case. I had the sad surprise that we now have changed for the...

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Ability to expand/contract all subtasks in task list at once

Is there a way to expand/collapse all task groups in the List view? The latest update allows for expansion of tasks groups that contains subslists but I have to manually click each if I want to expand...

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Add Colors to Text Formatting Options

Hello! I don’t know if this feature is in the works already but it would be cool to have the option to highlight or change the color of text when writing the Task Description. Sometimes I want to...

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