did “resource_subtype” of a subtask section change?

[hanamizuki]

I’ve been automating adding subtasks to a project when there’s a new subtask created.

originally the sections were sections in subtask list,
but if I add all subtasks to another project, it will be like this

I was able to resolve this by filtering by “resource_subtype”: “default_task”. Because the section’s “resource_subtype” was “section”.

But today I found all subtasks, including sections in the subtasks, are all “default_task”.
Not sure why it changed.

How can I filter sections in subtasks moving forward?

[Phil_Seeman]

@hanamizuki,

I just tested this and you are right - sub-sections used to be distinguishable by a resource_subtype of section but that no longer seems to be the case.

I just reached out to my contacts at Asana and will report back here (or they might) with an update once I have one.

[Phil_Seeman]

@hanamizuki,

@lpb helpfully reminded me that there is another property you can check that I had forgotten about, is_rendered_as_seperator, which should give you this info. (It’s an opt-in field so you’ll have to use syntax like opt_fields=is_rendered_as_seperator

I think it’s still the case that there was a change to resource_subtype and I’m still following up on that with Asana, but I would say switch to using is_rendered_as_separator in your solution at this point.

[lpb]

Thanks for following up here, @Phil_Seeman; I’m a bit behind on Forum posts today.

[Phil_Seeman]

@hanamizuki,

My Asana contacts reminded me of this forum post which I had forgotten about:

Resource subtypes
Currently, separators will indicate that they have resource_subtype: "section". This will be deprecated in favor of is_rendered_as_separator and separators will instead have resource_subtype: "default_task".

It seems that this deprecation of returning default_task for subsections was never actually implemented until very recently, but apparently now it has been. So bottom line is that you should use is_rendered_as_seperator to distinguish a subsection.