Sorting in Asana

@James_Carl and @Todd_Cavanaugh So we are in agreement :slight_smile:

I hope Asana will implement these things sooner rather than later.

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We hear you :slight_smile: Our product team is aware of your thoughts and feedback.

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I used to really think that the incomplete sort being default was beyond confusing and changed it to due date default every time I could. But recently - like in the past 2 weeks - I’ve started using the today/upcoming/later options and I realized it was more helpful to me than to see a list of my tasks by due date.

I think its a volume thing - like if you have 20-50 tasks, due date is OK probably, but I’ve begun to understand why incomplete not only exists, but is default. I just didn’t listen until now hah

Although I agree 100% that there needs to be a primary/secondary sort functions. I find the current sorting methods to be a bit wonky, to say the least. It gets done what I need it to, but I feel the mechanisms could be clearer for others…

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Sounds good :slight_smile: Let us know if you want further, of if you want feedback on some concrete ideas.

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We really need the Sort by Task name function. Is that in the works?

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I think you’ll be interested in this thread on the future of Asana

Adding my support for this feature request! Sorting by multiple criteria (eg. by assignee, and now by custom field: urgency) is an area where Asana lags far behind Wrike, etc.

As the manager of multiple teams, I’d love to keep closer tabs on individual progress. It would be extremely useful for me to see how people are progressing on their most important tasks by sorted by assignee, and then by task urgency, etc. Multi-factor sort is available in most programs and seems like basic functionality you’d want to have.

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I’m also adding my support for this feature. Also a sorting by tags would be great, as I do have different tasks in different sub-projects, so when I meet my Migration guy I can sort to show all tasks with regard to Migration and if I meet my Test guy I can show all the tasks with regards to testing

They might be overlapping, though… Interesting question how to solve that… but I leave that to your talented design team :smiley:

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I agree with a lot of what’s being said in this thread.

At the very least, support for sorting by section would be wonderful. As it stands, sorting by due date wrecks your section layout. Sorting by section wrecks your due date layout. A primary and secondary sort structure would improve sorting immensely. Just my two cents :slight_smile:

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Yes, being able to sort by multiple fields like in Excel would be indispensable. We have a lot of custom fields and often need to sort by 2, 3, or even 4 of them. We also would love to be able to display more than 5 fields as columns in the main pane, or have some kind of extended view that let’s us show more.

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Another related feature that’s sorely missing is that you can’t sort by custom fields when looking at a view that saved from a search, like you can in the project view. Even though the custom fields display in the view.

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I came here to request this exact feature.

We have a different project set up for each client that the business works with. Inside a project, we use sub-sections to break out different areas of work for each client. Being able to sort those tasks under those sub-sections by date would be incredibly useful.

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Total support for expanded sorting options. When I sort alphabetically, it ruins all the sections and their tasks. Also, it would be helpful to be able to link subtasks to certain sections instead of only projects.

Our company deals a lot with construction, so we have a “Project” which is a city name, and when you open that project, each section is the title of a different project that we are working on in that city, with the respective tasks below. I want to be able to sort those sections alphabetically, because then our project names are sorted alphabetically, but if I do then the respective tasks move all over the place and our layout is no longer functional.

Halp, Asana!

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+1 to all of the above! Looking forward to sorting my tasks by project and then by due date!

If you are a PC user my gift to the community CSV To Asana Simple List Generator- My Gift To Community - #24 by James_Carl does do that with CSV file exports but is limited by the CSV file constraints noted in the post. As I mentioned above I too would love multiple sorts.

another vote for sorting!

Is there a way to reorder tasks if they are sorted by due date and not by project? Has there been any developments with this issue?

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If you’re sorting by due date, the order will only change if you adjust the due date. A good workaround could be to fiddle with custom fields and sort by custom field if you want to get creative. :slight_smile:

:clap: yes, this would be really help. We have Projects with 100s of tasks sorted by sections and it would be very helpful to be able to sort by due date within them. We have to spend a lot of time each week just to keep asana Projects organized by date manually.

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It seems pretty obvious to add this functionality, and a pretty easy one also. One thing i can see that would make Asana hesitate is the interplay with manual sorting. If we should help Asana figure out this issue, what would be a good solution?

Ie. if i sort by fx due date under each section, and for some reason i want to manually put a task with a later due date on top of a task with a earlier due date, what will happen next time i sort by due date? In the most simple implementation of sort by due date under each section, that “manual” adaptation would be lost.

If i had the more power full sorting options mentioned in my original post i do not think i would need the manual, but what do you guys think?

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