Two things…
I thought it was possible to add a task’s Description field to the project’s List view. But I seem unable to do so. Any suggestions?
Why isn’t that Description field visible via the Add Fields, choose from Library capabilty?
Thanks,
Steve
Welcome to the Community Forum @Steve_Mattera!
You are right, It’s currently not possible to add a column in your List view to see the Tasks Description. I think this is a very good suggestion! I’ve gone ahead and moved this thread to the Product Feedback category to allow other users to upvote.
I hope this helps!
Hi - still getting used to the forum format, so hopefully this is the correct place to do this. Is there an update on this? In my previous position, we used Workfront and it allowed users to add the task description to the list view, and we found it very helpful. Are there plans to add?
@anon27926765, @Steve_Mattera,
Until/if Asana offers this, consider Asana2Go (Disclaimer: I’m the creator) which offers a Description column (see all Descriptions at once for tasks in list) and/or a hoverable icon (take up less width and see any one Description instantly):
Larry
I am so confused as to why some of these features are not available. The seem pretty basic to me. Every single search I have done today results in “feature not available yet” and 6 months later - still no update? You can’t undo something easily, importer tool only works once a week, you can only have one date (any other needs to be manually input)… hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Another +1. Since follow up tasks are “linked” (not a true linking relationship, to be clear) via a link to the parent issue via the Description, I cannot see the parent issue without clicking through dozens of tasks. Trying to clean imported data to Asana has proven to be a nightmare because of all these papercuts that add up significantly.
Even an advanced search for a non-empty Description is impossible. I’m now reliant on coding together some janky API script to try and capture this data. Ridiculous.
Every few months I come back to Asana and think “This is going to be the time I’m going to be able to run a project off of it” and every time, I discover three or four new small things I just can’t fundamentally do, and then scrap this tool for Excel.
Asana, let me be clear: You are being outclassed by older-than-the-earth spreadsheet software… Sure, Excel doesn’t have fancy css or smooth js transitions, but it covers the basics to a point that I don’t have to worry about the engineering and product teams at Microsoft ignoring feedback for years with issues that make it impossible for me to work in an efficient way. Soapbox? Yes. Wrong? Absolutely not.
Strong upvote. Without this, I have to use Google Sheets or Airtable (instead of Asana) to keep track of an important list for which my staff needs to be able to browse the descriptions without clicking into each list item.
Looks like this still hasn’t been released. Why not?? I’ve been a heavy Asana user for 5 years and just came across a clear need for this. I’m creating a bunch of outreach tasks. I want to add a short description for each company that I am outreaching to. I could create a custom field, but would be so nice just to have the first sentence of the description show here. Now I have to choose between slowly opening each task to add the description or creating a custom field and then being able to quickly add to each task from the list view. Why should I have to choose?
This still hasn’t been added? Is it in the works at least?
It would be valuable to be able to see description in the list view. We just started to use Asana on our end. Powerful tool but this seems like a simple to implement valueadd.
@Emily_Roman - is there any update on this request?
Hi @Karan_Sanghavi1, we don’t have updates about this feature yet! At the moment, it’s currently possible to add a text custom field to your project so you can show a description in List view. We will comment on this thread if this is something we plan to implement in the future!
9/25/24 and is there still no way to see the Task Description in List view, oof.
Summarized recent conversation: “Why can’t the important information be in List view with everything else? We pay how much?!? Isn’t Monday free? Can Monday do that?”
Please, don’t make me have this conversation, I am begging you, add Task Descriptions to List View
Hey Asana team,
It’s actually pretty embarrassing that this type of feature doesn’t exist. In fact, it’s not even a feature, it’s basic functionality.
The ability to add a default field of a table to the list view should have existed from day 1. Not having it after this long is a bit of a joke.
Please do something about this.
