Ability to Group by Task type (in a Project)

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I’m loving task types and can see great value to replace single-select custom fields of statuses. To fully adopt them I would expect them to behave exactly as a single-select field does.

Therefore, I would very much like to see the option in the Group button to group tasks of various task types into individual Groups within a project. This would avoid the current workaround of having to use rules to ‘sync’ to sections or a grouped single-select field to emulate this effect.

To clarify, we can currently Group by a task type which will produce a Group of each status of that task type, not the task type itself, which is what this feedback request is about.

Currently, we can only Group the statuses of a task type, so the Groups are, for example:

  • Not started
  • In progress
  • Completed

But if we were able to Group by task type, we could have the Groups as per below examples:

  • Task
  • Milestone
  • Approval
  • Bug
  • Risk
  • Request
  • Quote
  • Invoice
  • Expense
    etc.

We can then argue whether we then have to add an ‘s’ at the end of our task type names (so our Groups name read correctly) :sweat_smile:

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Yes, I’ve been looking for this option myself.

Actually, I it was my third attempt at using swimlanes.

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@Richard_Sather shall we merge this into Allow to Group by "Task Type" ?

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It would be a great addition to allow to group by Task Type.

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Maybe a nice follow-up after: Global Custom task types: the ability to add the same task type to multiple projects

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@Esteban_Giannini,

I’m grouping by a custom task type here:

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Do you mean something different than this? Can you describe in more detail, with screenshots?

Thanks,

Larry

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@lpb Thanks for following up on this. The feature request is to allow tasks in a project to be grouped by their type. For instance, if a project has 3–4 different task types (like “Ticket,” “Note,” or “Bug”), it would be helpful to be able to group them by those types. Does that make sense?

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Ah, I see now what you’re asking for. I really would doubt we’d see a feature like this from Asana anytime soon. I’d recommend a single-select Task Type custom field to use as a workaround to group your multiple custom task types.

Thanks,

Larry

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I would also like this.

Within a Project, I would like to be able to Group By ‘Task Type’ so that I can have a section for Approvals, a section for Tasks, and a section for Milestones. You could in theory have custom types as well. Below is where I would like to see a ‘Task type’ option

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@Richard_Sather I meant the other way around, as @Esteban_Giannini’s topic existed before yours. :wink:

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Oops! I meant to hit merge chronologically. Not sure I can fix that now. But all votes are consolidated anyway :slight_smile:

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