I might have missed an update where the … menu is now gone from the project. But I used the “Search this Project” all the time to quickly find my hidden subtasks within larger projects not owned by me.
Yes I know I can use the Advanced Search but since there the filter “Just my Tasks” only brings up main tasks and not subtasks I need a quicker way to replicate what Search this project did. Anyone else missing this little feature or know where this feature moved too?
I can confirm it’s still present in two of two environments
projects I checked just now:
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May I move this topic out of this private category so 600k+ others can benefit from it?
Thanks,
Larry
Hi Larry - thanks for checking.
Yes that is where I am looking. It now looks like this:
I am okay to move out of topic if needed.
Argghh…I found an environment where I have an Options menu now too and I agree, I believe it’s been removed in that case.
@Forum-team, Is that an A/B test or a new feature? And regardless, is the fate of Search this project doomed? (I use it all the time too, and would love to see it remain, but I’ll survive without it!)
Thanks,
Larry
Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback! This update is part of an A/B test we are running which includes some updates to the toolbar.
I will share your feedback with our product team and will share updates here when we have any updates about this feature!
Thanks Emily! Is there a workaround for users impacted by this change? Did “search this project” move or is it removed? If it is removed is there a way for me to remove myself from this test so I can get it back?
Hi @Dave_Barker, thanks for your feedback. I’m afraid I’m not able to remove your account from this test but you can still search the project using advanced search:
I hope this helps!
I use the Search facility a lot and now I can not find it within the project - I want to quickly find a ticket which has a certain topic within it and this change has made it very hard to do that quickly and easily - a very frustrated ASANA user!
Thanks Emily. As a piece of feedback on this change – I appreciate that it is possible to accomplish the same thing using advanced search, but that is not an adequate substitute for me. That’s too many clicks and too much typing for something I do frequently, made worse by the fact that we have a lot of similarly named projects so I have to take care when I retype the project name into the filter field. (If I’m routinely retyping something from the same part of a webpage to the same field on that webpage it feels like there’s been a UI miss somewhere.) “Search within this project” is useful enough that I’ve trained others on it, and I’ve seen people on my team tell each other about it and how useful it is. (Which I realize suggests it’s not very discoverable in the “…” menu.)
I could see moving “search within this project” from the “…” menu to the search bar at the top of the page, if it were available directly with just one extra click or a keyboard shortcut. I have sometimes seen people head to that search bar intending to search the project they’re in and then get stuck. But for me at least switching to using advanced search to search within the current project is a noticeable speed bump.
I noticed that Manage dependencies used to be in the “…” menu and it was moved to the Project actions menu.
That approach would be equally valid for Search in project; it used to be in the “…” and could be moved to the Project actions menu similarly. And ideally bound to a keyboard shortcut as well. I’d appreciate if you could pass this along to the product team…thanks!!
Just reporting back - I believe now the Advanced Search is bringing up the subtasks now, whereas before this update it didn’t which was why I was using the “Search this Project” function a lot.
Still, I think a quick filter would be awesome (that also pulls subtasks) to add in place of the “Search this Project”.
Adding to this thread. “Search in project” was also a feature I was using quite frequently for complex projects which saves a significant number of clicks compared to using the advanced search feature. Hoping “Search in project” will be available again at the end of the AB test even if it moves to a different spot in the UI.
I use this feature, too, and have missed it. I hope it comes back once the test is complete.
Please, I am very used to this feature too, it’s very annoying to achieve the same results that you have with one click, having now to first open the advanced search and search/write for the project after doing your initial search.
@Emily_Roman is possible to remove users from the test or to change a cookie/value or something to be in the other control group?
Thanks you
Going crazy here with this feature being removed! Please bring it back. Having to manually select the project in the search box when I’m already literally looking at the project I want to search is adding a ton of time to what is a task I have to do many many times a day across lots of different projects.
This seems like a handy feature to have for power-users.
It’s because I saw this thread I started using the feature, and I really like it…
If it is removed, perhaps we could get a keyboard shortcut in return?
PS: I’d suggest adding alt to the search shortcut, but the fact ctrl + k is search is a bit confusing to me, as it is also used to add a hyperlink to selected text (as in a lot of other programs).
Is September done yet? 
I miss my …
My team had a minor meltdown last week when we noticed the “search this project” feature had disappeared in a recent UX update. It’s true that the advanced search feature still allows this functionality – albeit with several more clicks.
It’s confusing enough that some users assume that searching the top search bar only searches that’s currently on their screen. It was helpful to direct them to the “search this project” shortcut under the three dots menu to the far right.
If this was an intentional removal, I’d expect 1) communication about the change, and 2) suggested best practices around the best way to recreate this functionality.
I did reach out to support - they indicated there was no plan to bring this back, and that its removal was not a bug.
@tabitha - I’ve merged your post (and votes) with an existing one on this topic. On point 2, the best way around this is to use the advanced search with a filter for project (it’s one of the suggested filters when searching while on a project). The previous button was basically a shortcut to apply that filter to an advanced search.
