Dear Asana Community,
While adding a new task within a project, I can add new fields, like e. g. Time (very important!).
Why cant’t I do the same thing while adding a new task on My Tasks list? Why can’t I even see the attribute “ Time ” added to a task while reviewing my tasks on My Tasks list?
Or can I?
As a consequence, I can see the total time assigned to all tasks in a project but I cannot see the total time of all tasks, e.g. for today or tomorrow (tasks from different projects, reviewed on My Tasks list).
Or can I?
Regards, Lukasz
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Hi @Lukasz_Krason-Becker and welcome to the forum!
Currently, as you observe, it’s not possible to display custom fields in the My Tasks view.
Asana has said that they will soon be updating the My Tasks view so that it works a lot more like a regular project. Whether that will include the ability to have custom fields, we don’t know yet - we’ll have to wait and see once that update occurs.
In the meantime, you can add your vote for custom fields in My Tasks here:
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Hi Phil,
thanks a lot for your quick response.
I voted! 
Well, lets hope the best. Although seeing that the topic has been under discussion since June 2017 and the function in question is still not added, does not really allow to be optimistic.
But lets wait for updates.
In the meantime the TAGS may somehow be of help.
Thanks and best regards, Lukasz.
This seems like an incredibly basic function, how is it possible it STILL hasn’t been integrated into the software?
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I know they made an update on the My Task view that allowed us to see our task in a Boards view, but I’m still waiting for this change to be made. Seems odd that we can’t add custom fields here. I’m really wanting to put David Allen’s Getting Things Done approach, but this lack of customization is going to make it difficult to do.
Have there been any further updates from Asana on the ability to include Custom Fields in the “My Tasks” view?
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Hi @Taylor_Murdoch,
No further updates to report.
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I hope Asana can add this feature!
Coming soon…
Larry
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I look forward to having access to this feature soon
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is this rolled out yet? how do we enable it?
Welcome, @WPA,
You’ll enable it by adding custom fields via the Customize button…once rolled out.
Larry
Seems like another feature that Asana never implemented. 6 years is the average wait for a new Asana feature
@Howard_Weinstein, This feature was implemented as indicated above. If you don’t see that in your environment, please file a Report a Bug
Thanks,
Larry
@lpb thank you for the info. I guess in this case I have to admit that Asana did roll out the feature. Unfortunately I see no documentation at all on the feature.
Through trial and error I think I discovered that if I want the custom field from an existing project to show up in My Tasks view I have to first make that field a Library Field and then go into My Tasks and add the Library field.
I wish that Asana would document things better. But at least they added it and that’s more than I can say for most features 
Org-wide custom fields documentation is found at Creating a custom field that is reusable across your organization.
Custom Fields in My Tasks was announced in:
and likely other places where new release info appears.
It’s true the Asana Guide doesn’t always get updated as quickly as the Forum category above given the high volume of feature releases of late, but it catches up eventually. Following the above category is recommended to avoid missing anything.
Thanks,
Larry
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Is there a way to see the custom fields in the My Tasks view of other assignees? As a manager, I want to view the Profile/My Tasks of my direct reports but when I select to view All Tasks, I lose the custom fields which would be very helpful.