I have not tried it yet but I would like to see the original task referred to in the task title of a subtask and the task title of a follow-up task automatically.
@Sam_Gould, I recognize you from my Nonprofits AMA today, where we saw this:
showing that the parent task title appears after the "subtask title < " which may help with this.
Also, in rules you can use a “+” variable to insert the parent task’s name in a subtask you generate, for example.
Actually, this is how follow-ups work currently; the title is always "Follow up on “<original task name>”:
Thanks,
Larry
Thank you for your time today. Interestingly enough the tasks parent task don’t show when I assign it to someone else. Furthermore when I tried to use tab P and select multiple sub tasks and only assigns the parent task to a new project so I have to assign them individually, which isn’t a dealbreaker, but isn’t convenient. Finally, I’m sure you don’t know this answer but you might be able to connect me to your connection, I can’t figure out how to add alt text to images that I upload on Asana so that my blind colleague knows the description of the images of uploading. I realize I’ve exceeded my allotment of questions and I appreciate your time. I also very much appreciate Asana2Go. I’m doing an exploration of it because I think it would be helpful in reporting to my board and clients that we have in our projects with us.
Thanks, @Sam_Gould, for those nice comments! Glad Asana2Go might provide some value.
The " < " display appears in many places, but not everywhere. In the task detail pane, the parent task is shown at the top, like a breadcrumb. Where do you not see it–which view? Maybe show a full screenshot?
In List view, if you expand the parent task to show the subtasks in the main lists view, you can multi-select them, then on the bottom multi-select bar click the clipboard icon to add to the project, then change the section, for all selected subtasks. (It’s true, though, that you can not do that with the Projects column in list view–works only for other projects, nor in the right-side tasks detail pane multi-selecting subtasks there, but the first method works fine.
If you don’t get a reply there in a day or two, @mention me there and I’ll see if I can get an answer.
Thanks,
Larry
Re: Tab P
What is interesting about the subtasks is that when I multi select subtasks, I do NOT get a multiselect bar. Therefore, I tried the tab P and it multihomes the parent. The only way I can multihome the subs is by selecting and tab p one by one.
Re: Alt Text. I received an answer. There is no mechanism to do this sadly. They need to put this on their accessibility list.
Also, maybe not your purview, but I tried the great prompt above and tried to be smart and get it to include the parent task right in the task title and now it includes the numeric code for the Asana task. See screen shot. I am trying to be clever, but above my pay grade. This it the prompt that I wrote based on the original forum post
Your Job is to rename incoming tasks.
Review the details of the task desciption and the task name and re-name the task to make it clear what the task is about.
Task names should be short and action oriented and clearly describe the work to be done.
If task refers to a specific project, add the project name in the task description.
Do not name the task the Asana project name (i.e. Do use “Grant Tracking 2025” Do NOT Use "Grant Tracking 2025’)
If subtask or follow up task, please refer back to the original task by task name added into the comments section.
Examples “Review new Blog Post”
“Approve Newsletter”
“Follow up with Kevin on ___”.
Forum policy is for a topic thread to discuss only one thing. So I’ve split off your initial reply (and all the following posts) into this new topic (called “Automating Subtask Titles With Parent References”) because it wasn’t directly related to that original topic.
You’ve raised a number of other questions in these posts here
and
that don’t relate to your original question on Automating Subtask Titles With Parent References. For each question you have, can please raise it in the topic that it relates to (if one exists), or create a new single-purpose topic in English Forum > Tips and Tricks for that discussion? Then I and others can weigh in there with responses that will be useful to others as well in the future.
Thanks,
Larry
Thank you for teaching me protocol