We frequently make tasks into a subtask of another task. Now, when we do that, it automatically removes this task from it’s “current project”. This seems unnecessary and arbitrary, I cannot really think of a reason I’d ever want it removed from the project it’s sitting in. We use a LOT of projects as Calendar views, and any given task/subtask might live in a half dozen projects so that they show up on the right Calendars.
I definitely don’t want or like this new behavior. I always have to manually go add it back to that project. If I wanted it removed from a project, I’d remove it. All I want is the task to be added as a subtask to something else.
Reworded, the thing is saying “Task will be added as subtask to another task, and then we’ll do something utterly unnecessary and inconvenient”.
So let’s say you have Task1 and Task2. They are both part of project1.
When you change Task1 into a Subtask of Task2, it’s still part of project1. It’s just a subtask.
There is no need for a subtask to have all the same infos (attributes, projects, custom fields, …) as its parent task. If that was really necessary, you wouldn’t need to change it to a subtask?
Do you just want subtasks to behave like a task? If that was the case, what would be the point of a subtask?
Well, for one thing, most of the time with I convert something to a subtask, it’s going into a parent task that isn’t even in the same project. So, in this case, that scenario doesn’t even apply.
Also, why would you assume the subtask doesn’t need the same custom fields and such as the parent task? In our case, sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t.
How exactly do you handle it when you need the parent task AND the subtask due dates to show up on the Calendar? This has been one of the crippling weaknesses of Asana we’ve dealt with for years and only recently have been figuring out ways of overcoming it.
For example, you have a task “Smith Job” with 6 subtasks “Smith Design Due Date”, “Smith Production Due Date”, “Smith Delivery Due Date” and soforth.
Those NEED to live as subtasks under the parent task so that they can be checked off as the job progesses, but you also need ALL of the due dates for those to show up on the same Calendar view.
We’ve tried doing each “Smith Job” as a whole project, but have not found that to be as helpful for various reasons. One of which is because I also need other jobs to show up on the same calendar (ie, same project).
I’m not sure this is quite the same issue, but we often convert subtasks to be subtasks in a different project. This conversion would normally take the subtask you are converting out of the original project and make it a subtask of the project you move it to. However, our workaround has been to add the subtask to a 3rd project - then convert it to a subtask of the new project. But this is no longer working - the subtasks are now being removed from the parent/original project - is this is a change in how Asana functions?
