I understand why and agree, everyone should have their own task so they know it their to do. However, this creates some challenging work around for streamlining comments across the team. The work around is essentially a parent task with sub-tasks that says review and comment on parent task. Training nightmare, it’s not intuitive.
I believe you could assign multiple users to a task and allow for each to complete the task individually thus making it possible to have a single location for comments and feedback on the task or related documents. This way the task would show on each person’s task list and it wouldn’t be marked completed unless all people complete the task OR someone completes for all. The complexity here seems more likely why it isn’t being done.
Still using the work around for my team, but I have yet to have a client want to adopt such a PITA process.
@natalie.bergsma I’m not sure what the right solution would be, and I understand the struggle in this. I’m thinking maybe a feature/rule that adds subtask comments to the parent task?
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I think 90% of the people who want multiple assignees for tasks would be satisfied if the different project views could be filtered by collaborator. I would like to see the tasks on which I’m collaborating where they are on the board, not just in a search list.
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Broadly agree with @Andrew_Pegram on this; I’d add that it would be great if this same general logic could be brought to My Tasks (or a new, similar product area), where you’d have the ability to see all tasks you’re a collaborator on in a view (I know this is accomplishable in a search, but you lose the sorting/manipulation that makes My Tasks so useful).
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I mean,
the reasons explained there don’t satisfy my use case… And I see really no reason not to leave this decision (one assignee or multiple assignees?) to the user.
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I’d love to be able to downvote this feature request. Not that I think Asana would seriously consider changing this, but having one assignee per task is a huge part of what makes Asana so useful. This drove me absolutely insane when I worked on a project that used Trello - there was no sense of who owned the task, so tasks would sit in limbo and/or you’d have to read through to comments to tell whose court it was in. Not to mention that fully adopting and optimizing My Tasks has been a gamechanger in my own workflow, which would be completely upended by having that view polluted with multi-assignee tasks. The use cases I see described above would be better solved with alternate strategies (e.g. subtasks copied to each user, which is a strategy I use frequently for example if a spec or feature needs review or testing by multiple people) or tools (e.g. a calendar, if the “task” is more of a calendar note without a discrete action to be taken). Thank you, Asana team, for sticking to the one assignee per task design.
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Just bringing this back to the top-- is there a world where a task can opt into this UI? To make the tasks assigned to an individual stay as is but to allow a more branched UI that opens up a collaboration efforts if it is needed for a specific project. We are starting to build out a lot of templates and finding ourselves often saying “I wish we could assign 2 people to this!”, especially when some management members are still not using asana so subtasks can get roadblocked.
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I will also make sure this stays up top! Come on Asana - listen to your community instead of prioritizing your “philosophy” of not allowing multiple assignees. We want that!
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Or, if they were good at developing, Asana could include an admin option to toggle the use of multiple assignees or single assignees. Give everyone what they want, which is features and options.
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I’m person B and I have the following:
Main task => person A (collaborators: person A, B, C)
— subtask 1 => person B
— subtask 2 => person C
On the projectboard I only want to see the tasks assigned to me. None of the above will show up on my projectboard.
When there are subtasks multiple assignees on main task (epic like) makes sense.
Hopping in here because our team would also like to use multiple assignees. We haven’t been able to find a solution to our workload tracking, keeping estimated time shared between people.
Having had this functionality in other project management software, this is such a great quality of life feature when you need multiple eyes on a single task/project (even if it is broken down into subtasks).
Assigning multiple people to a task creates a different level of visibility and usability that isn’t otherwise possible.
This seems to be such a polarized topic, I wonder if it wouldn’t be beneficial to have this be something that the Admin can set for the entire organization: Allow task assignment to 
One or Many
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Definitely missing this here. I really enjoy it when the project management software we use can reflect reality vs it’s view of how you should work.
207k views means there are a lot of people searching for this functionality to exist in Asana (thats how I found the thread). The software should give the users choice to work as they wish, instead of the product vendor making that decisions on behalf of its users. Looking through many of the posts, there is many business cases being made, and we have our own as well.
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As I’m just diving into Asana recently and working on capacity planning for my team, having multiple assignees would be SO helpful! Team members are suggested to keep a personal project to track collaborative tasks since their time is not being properly added to the workload view if they’re not the primary assignee. This just makes a duplicate effort.
Couldn’t agree more! This makes it especially difficult for reporting.
My manager would like to see this, as one task in our department can be assigned to multiple people. That way, the task will show up in each person’s individual report, rather than having the task only show up for the assignee reports. We want to see total tasks and projects for each person, and cannot do this if the collaborators don’t show in the reports, just the assignee. Personally, I would suggest removing ‘collaborators’ and making each person involved an assignee.
My question, if this topic has been discussed since 2017 and this many people have had an issue with this, then why hasn’t it been applied yet?
Thanks!
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Multiple assignees on one task and also the link to the workload and my tasks is absolutly neccessary and should be a basic feature.
I’m realy supprised to see that this topic exists since 2017 and has yet to be addressed.
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I understand the idea of accountability but not allowing for collaborative tasks is not a reflection of a real work environment. As a Wrike user for 6 years this was a BASIC function that was used multiple times a day
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This would be extremely helpful!