Change to Sections

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @dean.clough!

Here’s the thread:

"Tab+N" our new shortcut to create Sections

Hello everyone Just a quick note to let you know we’re making some changes to Sections. Until very recently, you could create a Section by simply adding a semi-colon at the end of your task title or using the “Add Section” Menu; you can now do it by simply using the “Tab+N” shortcut More info in the following article: Setting Up a Project in Asana | Product Guide • Asana Product Guide You might be wondering why we’re making this change? Well, let me give you a little b…

If you’re interested in a technical discussion, you can also see:

Sections are dead! Long live sections!

Reminder: This forum thread is directed at developers using the Asana API. To facilitate separation of concerns, please limit product feedback to the the corresponding thread in the Product Updates category. Update: We have made the final migration plan for this deprecation, which you can read in further down in this thread. Hi everyone, I’ve got some good news and bad news about sections in list projects. The bad news is that we’re killing them, but the good news is that they’re coming back bet…

To summarize, the reason for the change was:

• The Asana folks wanted to provide the capability to switch a project back and forth between list and board views.

• Sections in list views were different than sections in board views, making it impossible to provide this capability without converting things so that anywhere in Asana, sections were represented identically under the hood. (In list views, under the hood sections were just tasks with a colon at the end of their name; in board views, they were their own distinct type of object.)

• So they converted list view sections such that they will now be the separate type of object used in boards. Now you can switch back and forth! This capability is currently being rolled out to all users.

• While as you noted, you do lose the ability to enter task data for a section, you pick up some new capabilities. For example: you can now collapse sections in list views, and sections in list views now truly act as a container for all of the tasks in them, so you can do things like drag and drop a section and all of its tasks will move with it.