With the new update where you can create and customize your own tabs in a project, it would be awesome to be able to filter tasks by section. Do we know if this is something that is on the works?
Thanks!
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Hi @Esteban_Giannini do you mean filter inside the project itself or using advanced search?
This is an important request and I encourage others to consider voting for this by clicking this threadās title to scroll to the top and then clicking the purple Vote button.
I just ran into this with a client today, and itās come up for me several times before.
Just as @Esteban_Giannini writes in the OP, it would be great to filter by section in a project. You can group by section, but you canāt filter by section currently. You can filter by all these different types of things, but not sections:
It really would be helpful, particular with the ability to now have different tabs with different filters/sorts/groupings.
My clientās use case is a project containing articles to be written and published. We wanted to create a view grouped by reporter, and filtered to only show stories in certain phases (sections are phases). We had to settle for a second-level grouping by Section within Reporter, but that presents many tasks (stories) weāre not interested in but canāt filter out.
When implementing this filter, it should be presented just like the filter for a single-select custom field is presented now:
That is, it should be possible to pick one or more sections to appear (and one or more sections not to appear by leaving them unchecked).
Thanks,
Larry
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I want to second @lpbās use case and add two additional use cases (that are perhaps only tangentially related to the OPā¦)
- Now that we can group by custom fields/dates in all (?) project views, I think thereās a huge opportunity to implement Larryās suggestion and give users another powerful way to slice up their data. Of course, using no (i.e. one) sections is an option, but there are some nice UX benefits of maintaining the concept of sections.
- Since sections are available in bundles, it would be awesome if we could expose at least those bundled sections in universal reporting and search.
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Iād like to add another widely-encountered use case for this request:
Because sections canāt be hidden from projects, once you create a section itās either a) there forever, even after you no longer need it, or b) you have delete the section and thereby forever remove the membership of the task to the section which is important context for tasks that you donāt want to remove.
This makes it undesirable to create sections the way many of us want to in our workflow designs. When a section makes sense, but will only have utility for a while then no longer; Iāll never use sections though theyāre my first choice as a result of this issue.
A related request: Iād like to choose to hide sections with no incomplete tasks. Just like the Group by options āHide empty groupsā and āShow empty groups,ā Iād like to add for sections āHide if all completed.ā
@Marie, Iād be grateful if you could pass along this post and thread to the product team.
Everyone, Iād be grateful for you vote at the top of this thread.
Thanks,
Larry
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Chiming in to say this would be massively helpful
Also adding that this needs to be added.
Yes, it is very strange that is impossible to do.For me every Section it like a project with task.
So i have to be able to filter by it
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how can this not be a filter when sections are the foundational way of organizing tasks within a projectā¦must have!
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+1
And, yes, I voted.
Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply
THERE IS A WORKAROUND 
Create a new single-option field and have its value automatically set by a rule that checks which section it is in. Then simply filter the page view by this field.
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@Mike_Sanders, Thanks for that contribution. I edited your post and increased its visibility to help those looking at this topic.
Thanks,
Larry
How is this not a thing yet after so many years
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Itās not a thing yet as we havenāt succeded in convincing Asana this is the most important thing they should be working on. (And although I think it is slightly annoying Iād personally agree there are other priorities)
It usually helps to elaborate why this is important for you, and what impact (not) having this feature has for you or your organisation. This helps Asana prioritise.
There seems to be so many unfinished things in workflow as well. I do get that some priority needs to be managed. But this for example is a basic functionality that you have to workaround by adding new āfilter tagā into your project?! I found so many issues open for 4+ years on workflow problem that just make the workflow 50% usable.
For example due date expiration does not work on recurring tasks, many basic actions and conditional missing in workflows as well, I cant check in condition if task is without assignee etc.
These seem to be very easy to develop and fix. I donāt get it as a dev. I also can not accept that there were so many more important things then this for 2 years in this case specifically.
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Hi.
I have created a custom single-option field with the same values as the sections to be able to have more flexibility but even then, when I create a view where I group by my custom field, I canāt filter that custom field out of the view anymore, same as with sections. When I choose not to show a certain option, it doesnāt show the tasks under that group anymore, but the group stays visible.
I could filter out all empty groups, but that is not what I want. Depending on where we are in the project, I want to show certain groups, regardless of whether they contain tasks or not.
When I group by a field of type āmultiple selectā, this does seem to be possible.
For me, in general, the ability to filter out āa single-option field groupā would be nice.
Going to add my upvote for this as well.
We use our project for individual clients, and sections for monthly work and special projects. Being unable to filter by section leaves a cluttered calendar for my writers. Adding an additional field and rule (while helpful) isnāt a solution, itās a work-around.
Also, not being able to archive sections so I have to have two project boards per client is not ideal.
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The fact that this is still not available is so discouraging.