how can i assign tasks to myself by default while creating…i have a list of tasks and it becomes a problem to assign them to specific user. nice to know if there is option to assign defaults.
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specifically in iOS app. know of selecting multiple tasks online; don’t see if i could do the same in iOS???
There’s not a general default, but there are two things that might help:
- If you create a task in My Tasks (on Desktop or Mobile), it will be assigned to yourself.
- If you create a task somewhere else (in a project or task) on the Desktop version, you can press Tab-M after you type the name and before you press Enter.
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thank you that helps.
And @Craig_Fifer; what you mentioned is really good; but there must be better workflows to do multi-select in iOS/android app (if the web has it!) ; not a good idea to have too much disconnect between features of web vs iOS/android app…atleast on basic usability ones
Agreed – there are frequent requests to make the apps more like the desktop version, and I know Asana has documented that.
Thanks! Tab-M will do the trick.
Hi Asana/Asana users - does anyone know if there are any plans to make this more intuitive? The issue is, this is a really easy way to lose tasks, which isn’t great.
It seems fairly straightforward to solve:
- for new tasks, prompt for an assignee or
- provide an option to auto-assign all new tasks to yourself
I realise that all tasks created in ‘my tasks’ auto assign to myself, but this breaks flow when working directly in a project.
From what I can see, there is not an easy way to find unassigned tasks unless you’re using a paid account and you start an advanced search and search for ‘nobody’ in the search criteria. Event this feels more like a workaround than a proper method to find these orphaned tasks.
Other than this, Asana seems a great tool. I can see once I open this out to the rest of the team, this will become an issue though. Is there anything in the product roadmap to look at this? Or, have I missed something that solves it?
Many thanks
@John_Barnes: I do use the Tab+Q shortcut where the current user is already preset.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
Thanks for your reply Patrick.
Can you clarify the process?
@John_Barnes: I hope I did not miss an important part of the original question. When I use the desktop version on a Windows device I can use the keyboard shortcut Tab + Q. This will open up the create task popup on the right bottom. The current user is already preselected.
The popup supports all the well known shortcuts like Tab+A, Tab+P, Tab+D. In case you are running a Mac the keyboards might differ.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
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Ah, right, I understand. Many thanks Patrick, that will certainly help. Great tip.
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This needs to be fixed. Shortcuts like TAB+Q still bring up a window that makes you select a project, which is wildly inconvenient. Working within projects is the best way, at least for my purposes, and creating tasks in there needs to have auto-assign to myself feature. This could also be done to all subtasks on a task → auto-assign all subtasks to the same person/people who have been assigned the main task. It seems like this string has been dead for two years… has anything changed since then?
Thanks!