Create Task from a Template with Chrome Extension

[Maura_W]

I was trying out the new Asana Google Chrome Extension only to discover that it can’t create tasks from templates.

This extension isn’t very useful to our team without this specific capability, as we make almost all of our Asana tasks using templates (that contain dozens of subtasks). Hoping that others in the community would benefit from this feature, too!

[Kelsea_Lopez]

Love this idea! Don’t forget to vote for it yourself

[Maura_W]

Thank you, I forgot that was allowed!

[lpb]

Since task templates currently live in projects, the feature would be constrained that way, so it might make it less likely to be implemented so long as that’s the case.

Thus, it might be helpful to this request to also vote for this popular request:

Make Task templates available to other projects (Task templates library)

The new task templates functionality is great, but what seriously limits (and likely eradicates) its usefulness is the fact that a Task template is only available in the Project it was created in. Our workspace contains different Teams each with many Projects. We currently have a ‘Tasks’ project in a central Team where users from all Teams can duplicate tasks and move them into a Project. So, the ability to access common Task templates in all Teams and Projects is essential for this to be useful…

Thanks,

Larry

[Marie]

Thanks for the feedback @Maura_W, I’ve gone ahead and shared this feedback with our team

@lpb, I’m unmarking the solution you provided here, as it’s not a workaround (although a very valid point!)

[Michael-Chen]

Hi team - one way to get task templates working in projects beyond the one it was created in is to build it in a Bundle. Using a Bundle, you can build the task template (or rules, fields, sections) once and deploy it onto as many projects you need it to be on.