Adjust Custom field/Tag/Project field width sizes in task list

@Patrick and @Matthew_London

I found the problem and fixed it…installs are working now! I assume you were trying to install Streamlined Asana without adding a custom logo, and I just realized it wouldn’t install that way! That’s fixed now. It will default to using the Asana logo unless you choose a custom logo in Advanced Options.

Thank you for letting me know there were problems!

Joe

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Seems to be working now. Thank you Joe!

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@Alexis has this been added to the product feedback for voting? I couldn’t see it?

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Adjustable column width is really important in order to be able to properly see custom fields and tags (when there are multiple values for these). I hope that Asana provides this in a future release.

It’s great that Joe_Thomas has provided a Chrome extension but wouldn’t that require every user to install that in their machines? I might be able to do that on my machine but I can’t really ask/show everyone else in the team to do that on theirs.

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Is this a product feature request that’ll just die? Frankly it makes the custom fields pointless if you can’t see past 3 characters.

Is this on a product roadmap? Sprint? kanban board? A napkin on someone’s desk? Are you even considering developing it?

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Hi Benny! We appreciate your enthusiasm here. We aren’t able to speak to specifics from the product roadmap, but I recommend that you visit this thread about how we engage with your feature requests here in the Community: **Read me first** How you can give feedback and what we do next

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Bump

It is annoying that there is so much white space on a screen and I have to type comments like i’m writing a newspaper column

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Asana product team - you need to check out Monday.com. The list view the way the columns are so easily organised and editable. the calendar UI interface. We need this in our lives.

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+1 for customisable column widths- frustrating not being able to customise the screen to easily see the information that’s important for each project

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I’m with all these folks. Asana is usually so thoughtfully designed – I can’t get my head around why you wouldn’t have addressed this already. Inability to adjust column widths effectively renders custom fields unusable for me.

And custom fields are a big reason to upgrade to a paid version.

Which means until this functionality is added, I’m likely to go back to the free version.

Every company has its product development blind spots, it’s all good. But I hope there are product and/or revenue people from Asana reading this who realize it’s in their interests, as well as their users, to fix this.

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When I go to “My Tasks” I get a view similar to the screenshot in this comment - although I don’t have as many columns in the list. When I click on a task, the right panel shows me the task details. Ignoring the left menu, of the remaining real estate, the task list occupies about 60% of the screen width, and the task details panel at far right occupies about 40%. This doesn’t make sense to me. If I’ve clicked a task in a list, surely I want to see the task details. Further, the task details has far more text - and images - than simply the task name in a list and that amount of content needs more real estate - yet I cannot resize those panels to increase the width of the right hand panel.

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I would really love to see this because there is just so much wasted space right now. I am all for responsiveness and adjusting the width / losing some visibility in those custom fields if working on a very small monitor, but most desktop users have 21" or larger monitors. Even then, Asana allows for expansion of the list view by hiding the side menu or not clicking into a task (and presenting the task detail pane), the actual list should be responsive as a result.

I’ve included some marked up screenshots to help explain the issue.

Anyways, just my opinion, but would sure make working within Asana a lot better and perhaps I would need to export everything to Excel less just to see the custom field data at a 30,000’ view.

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has this been resolved yet? omg what is the point of tags if you can’t see them on list view???

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Nope, not sure what plan is here from Asana dev team. I’ve implemented a workaround with a CSS extension for Chrome browser that lets me override the styling and take advantage of extra screen real estate.

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Please develop functionality to adjust width of columns!

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I would like to 2nd the sentiments in this thread. I understand the design choices you made and why, but the lack of flexibility for those of us with wider screens is just poor UX.

I have custom fields that I can’t read in list view and yet grey bars on either side of the window. I even tried hiding some of my custom fields. It didn’t repurpose the space for my custom field labels, it made the task name field wider. :neutral_face::expressionless::tired_face::cry::sob:

Please add this to your backlog if it is not already there.

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Has there been any progress on having adjustable column widths for custom fields? I recently implemented a custom status field for my tasks, but I can only see the first few letters of the values and there seems to be no way to adjust them.

Just voted for this idea. Some people mentioned in this post that the width of custom FIELDS is also too small. There is a product improvement request for that idea too that I encourage everyone to go vote for. Here is the link:

Hello all -

I’m using Stylish plugin in Chrome, and using this little hack accomplished what you’re describing above:

/* Main Screen for project - make the task list full width - Words in CHROME with STYLISH Plugin : */
.PotListPage-gridPane {
flex: 0 1 100%;
min-width: 405px;
}

Note I only tested in Chrome. But it does make the default view of a project full width.

HTH !

What is the name of the chrome plugin?