As of the latest update, Asana has lost the ability to reorder projects via drag/drop. Now only the predetermined sort options remain. Why lose this functionality? What does that get us? It’s made all of my team boards a mess and those that are less tech-savvy are having difficulty locating certain projects that are not date-driven. I submitted a ticket and was told this is not a bug, it’s a new feature. If so, that’s extremely disappointing, especially as I was looking to add a number of new seats this summer in our new fiscal year.
Hi @Shaun_Bossio , here is the public announcement in the forum for this feature which is currently rolling it, for the better or worse, for some users. But I understand that this feature is setting the foundations for more things to come to the Team page.
In order to overcome your issue, you need to pin your projects. Once you do so, then you can sort them up/down like you used to.
Thank you for the reply. Pinning is all well and good when there are a handful of active projects, but I have some teams with 30+ projects on their main page. Not to mention using all of this in the app used to be so user-friendly, but now this has stopped me from using the app entirely. Just passing along the frustrations of my department.
Good morning. I was out of Asana for a few days and when I came back, I don’t know if something has changed or if I’m just catching up to something.
I feel like I used to be able to sort PROJECTS within a TEAM manually, but this morning I noticed that everything was sorted in a method completely contradictory to how I work.
I was able to find a solution by “PINNING” my projects. This allows me to re-arrange them. Please see screenshot.
I respectfully wish to tell every development team reading this: There is never an instance in which I want an automatic sorting system of any type. I appreciate that some people do, it’s great for them, I simply request that “manual” or “custom” or whatever you want to call it also be included.
I respectfully add that there is no way you can possibly understand the Rube Goldberg-esque machine that is my process and trying to adapt your software to fix my brain is going to leave me frustrated and you without a customer.
Offering a “let me sort this myself” is the tried-and-true method to bridging “reasonable product offering” and whatever is happening at any given point in my brain.
Thank you in advance for taking this into consideration.
To edit, the screenshot says “REMOVE PIN” because I took it after finding the pin and setting up my system back to how I want. If your project is not pinned, it will say “PIN TO TOP” or something similar. Thank you.
I’m new to Asana, but added a few projects today (to the three I’d already created) and saw the need to sort them to keep certain projects together. I came looking for the answer for how to do this thing that seemed necessary and obvious to me, only to find the capability to do what I want has been removed. Adding my voice that this is obviously something we need to be able to do. As a way both to keep high priority projects at the top of the list, and as a way to group similar projects together.
Hi Kay! I’m new to Asana but came looking for the answer for how to organize my project list. I haven’t been able to find the screen you show above, for how to pin a project. Could you give me a few steps from the homescreen please? Thanks!
Yes, our project list is a complete mess. We’ve missed talking about some projects because they are lost in the long list of projects that is also including archived. It has made our status meetings twice as long because we have to scroll through the entire list to make sure we haven’t missed any. I got a message that it’s just the way it is right now. It would be nice to have received a notice that it was going to occur and to give some updates on the progress of getting us back to normal. We are currently looking for a replacement as this issue seems to keep happening and Asana seems not to care what they do to their customers.
This is a huge problem for our company as well. I have, easily, a 100+ projects going across multiple teams that I’ve relied on custom sorting to keep track of in a way that makes sense for our company. I don’t need them to be alphabetical or ordered by recently modified. Please bring back custom sorting as an option.
Hi @Jeremy_Long , you can create a single-select (or multi-select) field in your portfolio and name the field’s options as your section names. Then, once you apply the values to the projects in your portfolios, click on the header of that field so it will group by ‘sections’.
Hopefully the ‘Group by’ button in projects will also come to Portfolios to simplify the UX, making it consistent between projects and portfolios.
Hi @Richard_Sather , when you use any type of sort feature such as a field or team, you lose the ability to sort manually. I would like to be able define sections and still sort under each.
Hi @Jeremy_Long , you’re absolutely right. But in case it helps, you can add more than one sort in a Portfolio (multiple sorts). So you could add you single-select ‘section’ field followed by Alphabetical or any field in the Portfolio.
