Filter Section Independently in a project

[anon41818727]

Is there a way to filter a section on a project board so that I can filter only certain tasks to view? For example I have an employee that has a Priorities section on her Project Board. We have created a custom field “company work” which is a drop down giving her 3 different companies to choose from. We want to be able to filter her one lane by showing only one company’s workload for her priority section. I know there is a filter at the project level but can we filter by section?

[Marie]

Hi @anon41818727 and thanks for reaching out!

Currently, our filtering options are only available at the project level, meaning that you can’t filter just a specific section/column. I’m moving your post to our #productfeedback so other folks can also support this request. I don’t believe we’re planning to bring this up within the next few months, but I’ll go ahead and share your feedback with our team and will keep you posted here once I have an update!

[W_Rubin]

Hi, would it be possible to add the filter header, that can be found at the top of the list-view page of a project, to all segments in a project? So that all segments can be filtered differently.

Often filters are only applied to one section of the project and then the field is left blank in the remaining segments. This would be very useful for navigating through larger projects.

Many thanks!

[Bastien_Siebman]

Interesting idea. I believe it would greatly clutter the view but I understand why you would need it.

[Wells_Wulsin]

+1 to this

The ability to filter by section would be a huge help when creating different tabs in a Project.

[Sam_Byrne]

I agree this would be useful

[Sam_Byrne]

A filter option could be added to the existing ... menu. What greatly clutters the view is tasks I don’t need to see.

[Fabienne_von_Arx]

in some views not all sections of the projects are relevant. Currently the sections can only be closed but not hidden. Like this they still use valuable screen space, that I would rather use to display all the tasks of this view

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @Fabienne_von_Arx , look for the Group button along the top right header, next to Filter, Sort. Click the Group button and clear the Sections choice. This will ‘hide’ the sections and simply list your tasks.

If you want to only show some particular sections, then you could try this technique instead:

Forget about Sections - Group like a pro!

As an Asana Solutions Partner, I come across a lot of client spaces. One thing I notice quite often is the use of Sections for the status or stage of ongoing workflows. Basically, a project that is never completed, but has tasks added frequently, which go through each stage / status and eventually get completed, all the while new tasks are added. But to be fair, Asana’s UI promotes the creation and usage of Sections, usually resulting into something like the below example: [01A sections] But …

Finally, I have moved your post into this existing thread so votes are consolidated.

[Alan_Towne]

Ability to Filter Tasks by Section

I wanted to filter completed tasks in only one group. The workaround involves three rules and one filter. Create a new field called “Filter” and set two options “Complete” and “Incomplete”. Set a rule at the Project level using the “Customize” button in the upper right corner so that any new task added to the project is given “Incompete” in the “Filter” field. Then set two rules at the group level that you want to filter, add two rules, one where the “Filter” field is set to “Complete” when yo…

[Will.S]

Honestly one great use case for filtering by section is for planning activities.

Say I want to do a what went well/lessons learned activity and a Start, Stop, Continue activity. Ideally both can be done in board view, but I want to keep one activity separate from another.

There’s no way to do this as grouping would require reliance on a custom field or task type.

And I can’t hide empty sections because once the first activity is done it wont be empty for the second.