I’m experiencing a new problem in a project I’ve been using for years, and I’m wondering if I’m experiencing some sort of bug. It’s also possible I’m missing an obvious solution/answer, but I’d like some help!
For context: I manage marketing material production and use one project—creatively titled Marketing Materials—to house all these materials. Each material appears in the form of a task. Sometimes these task are created in Marketing Materials, and then added to additional projects. Other times, they originate in another project and are then added to mine.
Historically, when accessing these tasks from Marketing Materials, I always saw the fields in my preferred order. However, today I started noticing that tasks were showing fields in a different order. This is happening to tasks created in another project, and to tasks created in Marketing Materials. In the case of the latter, the fields get out of order as soon as I add them to another project, adopting that project’s field order as the default.
Because this is a very new issue, I’m assuming it’s a bug that can hopefully be fixed. Help welcomed!
Hello @Janna_Gosling - Are your custom fields reordered in the customize menu? I wasn’t able to replicate the issue you are having with the adopting the projects field order, unless I am specifically in that 2nd project where I multi-homed the original task.
@Alex_Christensen No, when I view the customize menu (from my project), the fields are still in the correct order, but they aren’t showing that way in the actual task, even if I’m accessing it from my project.
Based on extensive testing, the order can’t be controlled or changed. It is driven by the options/customize menu of a project, but when multi-homing is going on, you can’t change the order.
It still helps if you reorder fields in all multi-homed projects (although I agree it can be erratic behaviour)
For example if Field A is sorted as the first field in the Customize>Fields menu in all multi-homed projects, then it will appear as the first field in the task details pane.
+1 to this issue. There isnt a way to see/order ALL of the fields for the task across multi-homed tasks in Asana (until you export to CSV). From what we tested, it seems to correspond to what date the field was added to the library.
I also may add the list of fields in the task view stops at 60, even though there is up to 100 total fields. So even a single-homed task, if you created custom field #61 and need to go fill it in for certain tasks, you can only do that in the list view/you’ll never see it in the task pane unless you move the order which in turns screws up existing reporting
