Multi-select in Boards

Me too, I wanted to really try and use Boards, but find the limiting functionality always sends me back to List views.

Don’t forget to vote, folks! You can vote for this feature at the top of the thread.

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It would be great if it was possible to select multiple tasks in Board view. Otherwise, it is not possible to Tag or delete multiple tasks at once.

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I’m having the same issue. With a board system, your tasks usually end up in a “Completed” column. That’s great and all, but we still want to mark tasks in that column as “Complete” so that they don’t show up on the board and our overall project status continues to update.

However, without some way of mass selecting, it’s a nightmare to open up each task, click on the checkmark, then close the task. =/

You have a plan to implement this feature on your product roadmap, but no work for 8 months?

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I have created a similar topic for this feature - but with a bit of additional information: Board View: Select where to add new tasks in a section (Top or Bottom of the list os tasks in a section)

Can we have an update on where this is on the roadmap? It sounds like this was close to being worked on 8 months ago, but this is still not working today.

Feature Requests:

  • Select Multiple
  • Send to Top
  • Send to Bottom
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Thanks Sara, this answer has been VERY useful to me!
Regards
Victor

Wanted to add a +1 for this feature - would like to multi-select notes so that I can mark all of today’s tasks as “complete” at the same time. Thank you!

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Any news about this?

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In Trello have some options in the column’s head: “Move all card from this list to…” and “Archive all card from this list”. It’s a very simple and useful function for this I think…

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+1 for multiselect on boards. This was a commonly used feature when we used Jira, most often used by the project manager to keep everything clean and move unfinished tasks over to a new sprint durring sprint planning. also would +1 for the feature mentioned above regarding “send to top/ send to bottom” of a column, again very useful to help define which tickets are the most pressing to work on.

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@Alexis @Sara Any updates here? It seems to be one of the most popular requests, has been on the roadmap for about a year and has had no updates from Asana staff for about 6 months.

This feature would help a great deal in not feeling like Asana treats boards as a second-class citizen.

@Sara Is there a possible workaround to use multi-select? I would like to sum up the custom field “estimated hours” per board column. Otherwise I need to use lists. Both rather sub-optimal.

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Hello! This feature is very important! @Alexis

What’s the latest. This is so frustrating. I’ve literally spent forever changing our project workflow to use boards. The most critical information is the section/lane in those boards, which used to be stored in a custom field.

I need to total our story points per lane/column or I have no way of planning sprints

What’s even worse is I tried to do a work around, and use the advanced search, but the advanced search only permits me to fitler by project, not by lane/column/section within the project, so that’s no good either.

The only option I can think of new is to create a new “status” custom field which replicates each column on the board, and each time I move a task across in to a new column update the status too. I can then do an advanced search in that project, and filter by status.

But god that’s an untidy workaround! And I don;t think I can get everyone to constantly update status AND column. In fact at that point I might as well revert to the workflow I’ve spent ages migrating away from just to use columns!!!

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Is there an update on the status of this feature?

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Would love this too - been patiently waiting!!!

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vote +1 for feature

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This is an incredibly important feature when using templates for projects under Asana’s current configuration limitations

So, it is quite frustrating to come to these boards and find the community is clamoring for help and updates; but then receives none. Sad.

As it stands, we are scrambling to figure ways to work around limitations on basic elements in Asana. For example, we are trying to create pools of tasks (notes, sub-tasks, custom fields, etc) for templates to assign out on projects based on phases or milestones - because there is no clean way to import tasks due to limitations with CSV import (no sub-tasks, and limited fields) and the inability (still) to add a template to an existing project. So, we can easily have multiple tasks that need to be added at once to the queue when a milestone, phase, etc occurs. The inability to select multiple tasks at once on boards hampers our productivity, and frankly, makes us continue to explore other options. Some of these features are not difficult to implement, and should already be addressed. So, too, should the ability to switch between lists and boards.

Would someone from Asana please respond and provide an update. Your community deserves it.

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maybe, an option in advanced search to filter by column (and project). So, we can find all task, and mark them as completed

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