Asana duplicate subtask when creating a new project from template

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Thomas_Schreiner,

Unfortunately this is a long-standing Asana bug that has yet to be addressed in the product - see for example:

Creating projects from template adds new project's subtasks back to template

Does anyone have a good way to duplicate a project/build new projects from a template where a) tasks have subtasks and b) those subtasks are added to the parent project for the sake of visibility? I am having an issue with this–every time I create a new project from a template where this is the setup, a copy of the subtask from the new project gets added to the parent task in the template. Example of what I mean: Let’s say I have a project template (“TEMPLATE”) with a task (“TASK1”) and three …

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