I find that if I have more than a few subtasks and I’m doing some kind of initial work on each one, it’s a pain to go from one subtask to one of its siblings. You have to navigate to the parent task, scroll down to the subtask list (which may be down quite far depending on the length of your task description), find the applicable subtask in the list, and then open that subtask. If there was navigation to go to the next or the previous subtask, that would be incredibly helpful.
What about working on these subtasks directly from the List view? If you sort your project by none and unfold the subtasks nested in a particular task (clicking on the little triangle on the left), you should be able to action on each subtask without having to open each task manually. Please see screenshot attached:
I noticed this new feature recently and it works well when you only have subtasks one layer deep, but anything beyond that leads to the issue I described because you cannot browse that deeply in the List view. For example, a large project we’re currently working on has the following structure:
Milestone Task
Feature subtask
Feature-specific subtask
Feature-specific subtask
Feature-specific subtask
In this example, the feature-specific subtasks are where being able to jump to the next or previous subtask would be handy. We tend to use these subtasks for pieces of the feature that require their own assignee, discussion, etc.
I love the drill-down triangle to see my subtasks. But I often create subtasks of those subtasks. Could you allow the drilldown at a second level on the list view?
It’ll save extra clicks from having to open a task and then the subtasks.
Hi @TRV, welcome to the community forum and thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us! We already have a product feedback thread on this topic. I’ve gone ahead and merged your thread with Ability to work on all levels of subtask from List view to consolidate votes.
Please don’t forget to add your vote! Let me know if you have any questions!
Oh no, I can’t see the drill-down triangle to see my subtasks. It’s just not there, although subtasks exist and its count is shown after the task name. What can be wrong?
not sure where I submit suggestions for features, but I often have tickets in asana that have subtasks… and those subtasks have subtasks. It would be great if subtasks could just have a drop down list of subtasks in them. I’m probably not explaining this right-- but basically a way to view/add/mark complete subtasks without having to completely open each subtask individually.
+1 on this I just spent quite a bit of time to make a global change to subtasks that were nested deep in a subtask nest of subtasks. The option to see all related subtasks of a parent task would be extremely useful.
Agree here, the ability to expand subtasks within subtasks would be extremely helpful. You allow 5 levels of subtasks but only display the first level of subtasks in the list view. Easier said than done but please add those little “expand list view” triangles within the list view subtasks
The current UX around moving subtasks is insanely convoluted. There is hope though… the main list view offers an expansion to one level of subtask by clicking a little arrow… please allow this to open to any level, just like explorer view in Windows for example.
Additionally, once expanded, it should be possible to drag and drop any subtask to a new location. Just like moving files in Windows for example.
Without this feature I’m kinda lost… tasks keep sprouting but there’s no smooth way to re-organise (menu “Make subtask of” is way too clunky, and drag drop only works under special conditions)
Hi @Alex_Taylor, thanks for taking the time to share this feedback with us! As it stands, it’s currently not possible to expand multiple subtasks levels. We already have a thread on this topic so I’ve gone ahead and merged your post with Ability to work on all levels of subtask from List view to consolidate feedback. Hopefully this is something we can implement in the future. We will update the main thread once we have any news.
ClickUp user here and thinking of moving my team over to Asana, but this feature and essentially not having the ability to see a full overview of any given project and its tasks is a warning sign.
That and the fact there hasn’t been a response in over two years (is that normal?) is a red flag.
