Cannot add dependencies

[Chantelle_Drury]

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Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug you’re experiencing:
When trying to add dependencies, only a very small list of tasks are available to choose, all of which aren’t even tasks in the project I’m working in.

Steps to reproduce:

Click into details pane of a task, click on add dependencies, type in the name of the task I want to select. The list doesn’t result in the task I need to select.

Browser version:

What version of Asana are you using (Basic/Premium/Business/Enterprise)? Business

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I am in a project called “Remarkable” - none of the options below are even from the same project.

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Chantelle_Drury,

This isn’t a bug per se (as it’s working as Asana designed it) but is what many of us consider an unfortunate design for adding dependencies.

If you keep typing characters, in many cases you should be able to narrow down the displayed choices enough to select the appropriate task.

If that doesn’t work, there is a standard workaround:

@Bastien_Siebman

My trick has been to go to the target task, copy the link, and come back to build the dependency by pasting the link instead of typing the task name.

You can also add your vote for changing this UI - there are actually two similar threads for that:

UI for adding Tasks as Dependencies needs improvement, should make Project clearer

It’s useful to be able to create dependencies across projects, but because searching for a Task searches all projects, not just the current one, the current UI makes it difficult to know if you are picking the right Task from the right Project, if you have Tasks with the same or very similar name in multiple Projects and they have long names or are Subtasks of other Tasks. Because the Project to which each Task in the search results belongs appears after the name of the Task (and the name of the…

Allow task dependencies to be restricted to current project

When using the dropdown list for task dependency selection, tasks from all projects meeting the “type ahead” criteria are displayed. When the task name is too long to show the Project name in the selection box, it is impossible to identify the correct task. Restricting the selection list to the current project would be helpful. Alternatively, expanding the hover function to include the Project name would help as well. Note that the functionality works as desired in Templates