Has there been any movement to include this functionality on future updates? It seems a strong majority of posters here would prefer to organize the Board view by status (or other fields), our agency included.
I’d really like to know if this feature is coming soon. The whole point of a Kanban board is that it should show progress of a task /workstream ideally from backlog > in progress > complete. It’s crazy that the current board view just copies the sections over from the list or timeline - what use is that? That’s not a Kanban board in my view. It seems natural to use sections as a way of categorizing the type of tasks in timeline and list view, but in a board view that doesn’t make any sense. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong before discovering this thread and realising it’s actually not me it’s Asana! I’m currently in a trial version but sadly this would be enough to make me go elsewhere…
Wish we could have a different sort order for the sections between List and Board views. An order that makes sense when vertical doesn’t always make the most sense when horizontal and it drives me nuts when flipping back and forth.
Hi @Aron_Duby and thank you so much for sharing your feedback with us! Other folks have requested the same feature, so I’ve gone ahead and merged your post with the thread we already have on this topic! I’ll keep you posted there as soon as I have an update on my end!
Echo the other thoughts here. The Kanban view is fairly useless for us at this point. We only use it if we happened to have defined the sections to be “In progress”, “Done” etc… The better way to use sections is to define them as groups of work. The Kanban view would have been much more useful if the columns could be taken from Custom Fields. Then we could have an “In Progress” column, and move tasks to “Done”, which would set the right Custom Field.
As others have mentioned, Notion, Monday, AirTable all do this very successfully. Meanwhile, the Kanban view in Asana is not useful.
+1 for the ability to organise boards separately to lists. This is a real barrier to our business adopting Asana entirely for project management. My team are still heavily tied to Jira for this reason and we can’t move over until solved.
Making a duplicate project is not a practical solution.
Even the ability to reverse the order in Board view versus List view would be a large improvement.
When a list is sectioned by priority, you would anticipate high priority sections at the top of the list. These items on board view show on the far left section; however, In a Kanban approach the items furthest to the right are typically highest priority.
Overall I echo that support for multiple views is largely useless without independent organization/configuration. Ultimately, we’re forced to define a workflow based on one or the other, and ignore the other view.
I would like to be able to set up my board view with columns that represent the status of the task, ie in progress, complete, etc.
Then, on the the list view and the timeline view, I would like to be able to organize the tasks by work stream, ie content writing, visual design, front-end development.
Currently you can only organize one way or another for all views. Being able to switch between organizational views would be spectacular.
Welcome to the Forum @Roy_Brubaker and thank you for sharing your feedback with us!
I don’t believe this is in our near term plans, but hopefully this is something we can evaluate for future improvements!
In the meantime, If you are in a Premium account, I recommend you to create Custom Fields to organize your tasks. You can learn more about it in our handy guide article: How to Create and Use Custom Fields in Asana | Product Guide • Asana Product Guide
I hope this helps @Roy! 
This honestly should not be monumental.
A project should have a separate sets of sections (for list view) and columns (for board view).
A task in a project should be able to appear in both a section and a column.
Sections only show up in list view, columns only show up in board view.
Smart sheets and a few others work this way. Each “view” should serve as a different means for organizing data, not just a way to display the same data different visually
A “way to display the same date different visually” is exactly what a view is.
Splitting hairs a little here with terminology. Do you agree with my original request? It’s not clear.
Right now, the List View and Board View are treated as different ways to visualize the same set of tasks. List is a vertical organization grouped by sections, and Board is a horizontal organization grouped by sections.
This is not right!
Board view should NOT be grouped by sections. Board view should have a completely independent view from List View.
The point of the Kanban is to track tasks across a workflow suck as todo, doing, done.
The point of the List view is to organize tasks by topic.
It is very frustrating that these are not treated as distinct views. Look, for example, at how Airtable or Monday handle this. That is the proper way to handle these different views.
Please reconsider the implementation of these different views, and allow users to group tasks in board view off different sections than in list view.
In short: list view and board view should not share the same categories as groupings. They should be distinct.
This is a fundamental requirement. In my opinion Asana should never have implemented switching where section names (in list view) mirror board columns names. It basically removed functionality.
I now often run 2 projects for the same project. One so I can set up the required board view I like and a second that allows me to list the tasks how I need them. The current setup is fundamentally flawed. In my opinion both section names and column names should simply be linked to a field or custom field (independently) Tie custom field to board columns
Come on Asana sort this out! Linking sections to Board columns has been a totally redundant disaster.
I love Asana but this has to be the most annoying ‘feature’ implemented.
This is just implemented plain stupid in Asana.
To think that a Kanban column header would function the same as a section in the list view. Where in Kanban primary target is to hold on to the progress ('to do / in progress / done), the list view is just what it is: a list of different categories where each section is a category, and not a kanban column header. Now you can’t use a list-view and kanban view at the same time. Kanban is useless if you also want the use the list view.
I totally agree.
We often create a custom field for the status of a task. To-do, doing, done, etc.
It would be great if you could create columns based on any custom field, or at least drop-down fields.
Hi there. Is this still not resolved?
List view:
- Would like to organize each heading by “genre” of tasks
Board view:
- Would like to organize all the tasks by status as per true Kanban board.
Airtable does a great job at this… allowing us to change each column of the board based. Can we make this implementation plz Asana? @Natalia
+1 on this. I’d like to use the board as “sticky notes” and the list as the timeline. I hope there was a way that they are not the same data.