It would be greatly helpful for team workflow processes to see the custom fields on team members’ task lists. For example, we have a company-wide custom field called “Status” that we add to tasks so we know whether a project is in progress and what stage it is in. At the moment, if I view my team members’ task lists, I can’t see a quick view of how each project is doing. It would be helpful if we can view the custom fields on others’ task lists.
Asana help said this when I asked if there’s a way to view these fields - “They have come back to me and informed me that it is expected behavior to not be able to see custom fields when viewing another member’s my tasks .”
If you need people to see the custom field, you would need to add them to the project as well. The same applies if you wanna see the custom field then the task should be added to a project to which you have access to as well.
Can you check that for some of the tasks you cannot see the custom fields for?
We can see the custom fields when we click into the task details. We cannot see the custom fields in the list view columns. That is where we need to see the fields.
I would like to see the fields the team member added to their My Tasks. Even the Asana native field Priority does not show as a column heading. I can see is the following columns.
Since you can see the fields in the task detail pane, it sounds like it’s just a matter of going to the project’s list view “Hide” menu and toggling on the fields you’d like to see:
@Harmony_Reppert , you may need to make sure to add those fields to your library in order to add them to other projects and other people’s My Tasks by going to the Customize button > Fields > Add field
I’m encountering the same issue as the OP. I want to be able to view my team’s profile task list and see the custom fields and sections they have added to their own my task views. The view I see is vastly different than the view the owner sees - which makes it hard to help them manage their task without seeing how they have their my task setup. Since this is a user profile task list, I’m unable to add custom fields or see any of their saved views.
I understand some tasks are private and wouldn’t be visible but I should be able to see all public tasks and the custom fields and sections that are in that user’s my tasks.
I need to see a few custom fields, when i go to my employees’ My tasks. They have granted me access.
But for some reason, i’m unable to have custom fields show:
I’m admin on the projects.
I’ve made sure that the field is visible in the project, and filled with a value.
Another strange thing is, that i notice that on other employees, their My task view may show “Tags” or other columns, which others don’t show me. I’ve tested - whatever custom setup the employee has on My task, does not seem to change what i can see.
How can i see custom columns in their My task view?
