Can't move tasks up/down when sorting by due date

[Lisa_Spangler]

Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug you’re experiencing: I can’t move my tasks up/down even thought the hand comes up when I hover over the items I want to move. I am in tasks, sorted by due date and within the same date I wanted to move my tasks in order that I want to do them in without assigning them a time. The hand comes up when hovering but when I try to move it the task goes back to where it was. The tasks within the same day are not sorted alphabetically so I don’t know why I can’t move them around.

Steps to reproduce: Hover left of task, hand shows up, try to move up/down, task goes back to where it originally was.

Browser version: Chrome newest

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[anon41024217]

@Lisa_Spangler

If you want to manually arrange tasks, you need to select Sort: None

If you select Sort: Due Date then Asana auto arrange the tasks based on, which was created first.

Check the screenshot below. I created Task 1 before Task 2, hence they are sorted one after the other on the same day.

Let us now add Time to it:

This is what it looks like now (Task 2 is above Task 1)

Note that Sort: Due date also takes Time into Consideration.

Manually sorting cannot be done if you Sort by a particular category.

Hope this helps.

[John_St]

Hi,

I’ve started having this same bug since moving over from Chrome to firefox. Not sure if that’s a fluke or not. I get one successful “task drag and move” on the timeline before everything then locks up and I can’t move anything. I then have to refresh the page and I get one more task move again. Sort is set to none at all times.

[Amy_Saidman]

I can’t reorder my tasks manually either with drag and drop in My Tasks. there is no sort set. There are not due dates. can’t do it on firefox or chrome

[ajay_jindle]

Hi
To move tasks up and down in a list.
1 Select the task you want to move
2 make sure the hand icon is displayed
3 Select and hold the Windows Icon then use the mouse to drag and drop as you wish.

Above is what worked for me.

[Michel_Cloward]

We are now able to move tasks around in a section or to another section when using the Sort view.

[lpb]

Welcome, @Michel_Cloward,

I think the OP is still the case; you can’t move tasks when Sort is Due date.

Thanks,

Larry

[Richard_Sather]

@lpb

you can’t move tasks when Sort is Due date.

…unless they share the same due date.
(I noticed this fairly recently and could swear it was not previously possible)

[lpb]

Great! I hadn’t bothered to test again. I just marked your post as the solution. Thanks for finding that.

[Richard_Sather]

Thanks @lpb !

I think this feature became possible with the introduction of the Group by button - but I’m just speculating.

[Michel_Cloward]

Thank you for clarifying @lpb . I was testing it and thought I had the project sorted by Due Date and was able to move tasks. Now, I can replicate it so either it had the same due date or maybe no due date, or the project wasn’t sorted by Due Date.