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

This now has the “considered” tag :flexed_biceps: #hope

Only took 5 years and over 800 votes for something that would save thousands and thousands and thousands of user clicks and lost productivity. Might even take a whole day to code…

Yes, apologies, I’m being overly sarcastic. But it does beg the question - by what criteria are feature requests prioritized? (former software company owner, Fortune 500 help desk/customer service consultant and UIX designer by trade)

@Geoffrey_Brandt we tried answering that question here 🦄 If Wishes Were Unicorns: Why Asana Might Not Have Implemented that Feature Request (and other thoughts about Asana feature development and product strategy)

Thank you. I don’t recall reading that post before. It is reassuring.

I do understand the cost side. asana is a big beast now.

Maybe a better way for me to have asked the question is this: is there a place(s) where Asana describes their vision of the future and how they see Asana solving various use cases. More directional but with some mention of mechanics?

The video that hooked me on Asana for good way back when was the owner describing how each task completed by any employee was connected to the exec suite with Portfolios and Goals. All unified in a single, efficient user experience.

I renember at the time i was using Wrike. Arguably a more robust PM then. But they didn’t have the elegant company-wide work mgmt vision. I switched that week and never looked back, re-assured asana’s feature set would evolve in that direction.

There was a vision video a while back.

The vision didn’t change I believe.

But the vision is very high level, you wouldn’t see anything as specific as expand all subtasks. This is related to how Asana prioritises topics internally. For the longest time, subtasks have been awkward and I feel like no one at Asana was confident enough to start touching them :grimacing:

Agreed. BTW I wasn’t equating a feature request like expanding subtasks with product vision. I was just relating why I threw my lot in with Asana - the unified rank and file to c suite vision. It’s the intangible value add that separates it from the (sometimes more feature rich) competition. My opinion only. And why I feel comfortable recommending it to my clients (even if it requires some Flowsana help occasionally to fill in the gaps!)

This feature would be great in the calendar view as well! Especially if there are multiple tasks due on any one day.

Adding to the list of folks requesting this feature.

Hi @Dharmendra_Sawh , welcome to the forum :waving_hand:
Make sure to click on the vote button at the top of this thread - that will make your voice heard :wink:

The good news is that this thread has been tagged as Considered so there is a very good chance this will be implemented in the near future.

Adding my vote here to please develop this functionality within Asana. Thanks!

I sincerely hope this can be accomplished as its one of the most frustrating aspects when using Asana for a busy project plan. The ability to open up all subtasks in a single click or have a setting on a project which allows a user to set this as default (so its not common to all projects, in case this becomes draining in terms of machine resources) would be invaluable. Even the abiilty to save a view with certain sub-tasks opened remaining persistent would be highly-valued. Fingers crossed this one moves forward due ot it overwhelming support and great benefit to many.

This will be of great help when updating projects.

Need this ASAP!

First time adding a topic suggestion here but have been working in Asana as a project manager for years. As a project manager, I often have projects with many tasks and subtasks that I want to view at one time. A simple “show all/hide all subtasks” feature in list view on a project and/or section level would be a great time save for when I need to drill down and see the details of everything but then hide again when I am done to see a more condensed view.

Welcome, @Sara_Cokl1,

I’ve merged your post into an existing topic where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the Vote button.

Note the topic is marked “considered.”

You may also want to vote for another considered topic:

Thanks,

Larry

Please, please, please! This would be awesome!

Another thing to add that would be VERY helpful is enabling fields in subtasks of subtasks. I noticed the fields are only enabled on the first subtask.

  • We use multiple fields for timing and capacity planning and this inhibits the ability to build and organize projects as needed.

Any update on this? The original post started 5 years ago with 900+ votes has just been marked as “Considered”. I love the forum and the power you give the users to change the platform in the best way possible.

I would love to see some sort of Asana managed post (point me in the right direction if this exists :slight_smile: ) or even a monthly / bi-monthly meeting to provide insight on newly “Considered” features and an Asana + Community review of the current, most voted on tasks that have not yet moved to “Considered”.

Garrett here, a Group PM Lead who owns our core project management features. This work has been prioritized for our current quarter. It’s the first phase of subtask improvements we have planned for the next year, and are excited to share with you all

Hi everyone, I’m happy to let you know we have started rolling out this feature and it will be available to all customers soon! :rocket: