I would LOVE to have a “Jump to Section” button at the top to massively improve navigation in large projects.
Use case: I have some high-level projects that have many, many milestones or tasks feeding in from other projects, organized into sections. Every time I want to see something in one of the lower sections, I have to either collapse 8-10 sections in order to get there, or I scroll, wait for load, scroll, wait for load, etc.
Solution: Have a “Jump to Section” button to allow for quick navigation in large projects.
Thank you for sharing this great feedback with us @Bryan_TeamKickstart! I’ve gone ahead and escalated it internally and as soon as I have an update I’ll make sure to keep you posted!
I suggested this several years ago during the Asana Redesign Beta I think, using page-level tabs (which could convert to Bryan’s dropdown if too many and not enough room.
See this for a mockup and explanation, but in the context of the Task Detail pane, though it’s the same concept as what I proposed before and Bryan now proposes:
Collapsible sections lead to requests, as we’ve seen here, for remembering the state. And even if this feature were added, it doesn’t solve the problem of streamlining navigation w/o scrolling, nor the problem of having to click a lot to collapse/expand. Reasons why Asana’s own developer docs avoid that approach.
Hi, I just came across this, searching for a way to jump to a specific section within an Asana project. At first I thought Ctrl + Shift + up/down does the job, but it turns out to move a task across sections rather than to let one navigate. Moving a task across sections can be done by specifying the destination section from within the task. As such, I suggest changing the shortcut into a navigation keystroke as a great improvement, which I believe would benefit many.
Since there isn’t an automatic master project that tracks all projects and tasks, I’m manually creating the master project. Thus the project has a lot of sections; this feature would be super helpful.
I would like:
The click “Jump To Section” button at the top of the project as illustrated by the original post, and
To click on the section title that is listed in the task beside the project name to jump to the section (see image below). You can currently click on the project in the task to jump to that project, but it’s not an available feature for the section.
While this functionality is not available, the following workaround might be useful to you.
Create a “Collapse all” bookmark in your browser.
Title: Collapse all (or whatever you want)
URL: javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll(‘.TaskGroupHeader-toggleButton .DownTriangleIcon’).forEach(function(element){ element.parentNode.click() })}());
This collapses all sections that are currently visible. You may have to click it several times if you have many sections/tasks, as Asana does not load all sections at once.
A “Jump to Section” button at the top of the Project Board would make it easier to navigate to the different Sections and work within the Project Board.
@ka_nishiyama - I replied in your other forum post with a new free tool we built that does something similar. Please let me know if it solves what you needed.
@ka_nishiyama thank you so much for flagging this related thread! I’m also sorry I missed this thread - I’m a champion of the user experience and performance gains won by giving users improved patterns for navigating large (and even small) projects utilizing sections. This is in design at the moment to discover how it would intersect with a number of other exciting grid/list view improvements we have planned for projects in the next 1-3 quarters so I’ll at a minimum mark as considered!
