Allow Board view columns to be different than List view’s sections

[lpb]

Continue to default board view columns to match list view’s sections, but also enable alternate choices, for example, that the columns could correspond to a chosen select custom field’s option values.

For example, if the project had a Priority single-select field I could choose it and the columns would be High, Medium, and Low. Or if the project had a Phase field, they could be Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3.

I’ve created this thread at @Marie’s request because the thread:

Allow to have different columns in a same project depending on which view (Board or List) you're looking at

Our team is making use of the new List to Board switching feature for a lot of projects in our company (OKRs) and individual teams. We want to edit how columns are generated in Board view, and have different columns than the Sections in the list view. For example, in our team OKRs, we have a list View that uses Sections to organize OKRs by team. In the Board view, we would want to setup a common kanban workflow (todo, doing, done) to track the status of tasks. In the current implementation, t…

was recently closed when this was just released:

Project views can now be used to manage different aspects of your projects!

Hello Asana Community Have you ever wished you could use the different views of your project (List, Board, Timeline, Calendar) to manage various aspects of your project? Well, this is now possible with our new view-level custom field settings! With this new feature, you’ll have the opportunity to set the visibility and order of your custom fields at the view level, allowing you to see different sets of custom fields on the different views of your projects. Once you figure out what infor…

The closed thread had a mix of requests, some of which were addressed by the newly-released feature, but one was not, and that’s what I’m capturing in this new request.

Please vote!

Thanks,

Larry

PS Related: Until/if this becomes available, many are unaware that you can currently in Asana achieve very different grouping structures in List view and Board view. I offer that tip here:

Is There Life Beyond "To Do | Doing | Done" Boards? Answer: "Yes!"

In many Asana client environments I see way too many projects all structured identically with these (or similar) Columns: To Do Doing Done Surely not everything can best be organized identically in this sole manner! There must be a loss of clarity and understanding or a missed opportunity here. Not to mention that, in many cases, Asana’s List View amounts to a better choice than Board View given the use case (see also People stuck in board view), and offers more raw power where needed. But …

[Michael_Milroy]

Agreed. I am currently using custom field for kanban states (to-do, doing, done). Having the ability to customize sections differently for List and Board view would be great. Even selecting a field for column headers would be good (use Status single-select field as headers).

[lpb]

Thanks, @Michael_Milroy.

Your post reminded me of a related tip, so I just updated my OP here with a postscript; please have a look in case it might be of value.

Larry