Does the link of a task keeps permanent or changes over time?

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Hi!

Im planning on using Asana to create a Company Organisation Manual outside of Asana (as a formal PDF document) with links to specific tasks. Im worried that those links will change over time and making my document outdated. Is every task URL permanent?

Thanks!

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Hi @Joao_Gabler,

Not to worry - task IDs and thus task links do not ever change over time.

The only thing I’ll mention is that a task’s link also contains the project it’s in, so once you capture a task link, be sure not to remove the task from that project. Or if you think you might be changing projects, an alternative is to replace the first long number in the link with a 0 (zero); in that case the link will bring up just the task, divorced from any project.

I.e…

Regular task link to a task in a specific project:
https://app.asana.com/0/914614870974006/914614870974015/f

Link to that task without any project reference:
https://app.asana.com/0/0/914614870974015/f

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Thanks! Appreciate your concern regarding the project number issue.

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I’d like to add small tips around task URLs.

  1. /f is the URL for full screen view of URL.

If you’d like to open the task within a specific project for context information, then it’d better to manually remove /f from the URL.

  1. Copy task link icon vs. copying from the address bar

I did some experiments with the “Copy task link” icon and it behaves like below:

  • If the task is added to one or more projects, the URL contains the project ID of the first project in the projects list
  • If the task is not added to any project, the URL contains 0 for the project (even if the task is assigned to a user and/or added to one or more tags, which also works as the container of tasks)
  • /f is included in the URL

Screen Shot 2021-01-31 at 14.44.14

Another way to copy task URLs is to copy it from the browser address bar. The quickest way would be to press keyboard shortcuts Cmd/Ctrl + L → Cmd/Ctrl + C. We have some more flexibilities:

  • We can capture the task location including the project, user, or tag view in which the task is displayed
  • /f is not included unless the task is open in full screen view

I hope these tips help with leading even happier Asana life :smiley:

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