I would like to make the Dashboard sum the number of tasks the way the Board View does. This may seem straightforward, but it is not in this instance.
My team is adding sub-tasks from other projects to the current Asana project as tasks. This is the best way to integrate with their current workflow so for now I am locked into this behavior.
The Board View has no issue summing these tasks properly:
This is because some of these tasks are actually subtasks, and that is messing things up. But it is not messing up the Board View. So my question is, is there a way to get the Dashboard view to sum tasks the way the Board View does?
Thank you both for your reply. I truly do appreciate it. I did try that already but unfortunately it does not work in this instance. Thatâs the bummer. Thatâs the crux of my problem actually.
Because my task is itself a subtask from another project the âdonât show subtasksâ solution is not working properly. I have used this technique successfully in other situations, but this one is more complex.
Do you have any other solutions that may work in this instance? I can post more screen grabs to demonstrate this clearly and help cement the point.
What I want (the counting strategy in board view):
That makes sense. I think we werenât recognizing the multi-homing/subtasks environment.
So youâll need another way to select just the desired tasks to count. I think I would explore a âBooleanâ (single-select with one value only) custom field that you âturn onâ to designate the tasks to be counted, ideally with a rule that could do this automatically. Then in the chart, filter to require only tasks with that value (instead of using the subtasks filter which wonât work here).
