I would love to see the ability to add all tasks created by forms to be added to a certain section in a project, since our projects are used for more than just housing the forms.
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Hey @RogerS, welcome to the Community Forum 
Thanks so much for this great suggestion, I can absolutely see how this could be helpful!
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I agree, this seems like a no-brainer. Any project with tasks added via Form should be able to categorize those incoming tasks automatically, i.e., a backlog or prioritization waitlist.
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Has there been any progress on this?
Hi @Oceane and welcome to the forum!
No, there hasn’t been any change to this forms functionality.
I did actually provide a couple of ways to accomplish this currently; see this post for details:
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Agreed! Can’t wait for this one!
Does anyone know if there has been any updates made or work-arounds discovered? It doesn’t seem so but I certainly could be missing something.
You can do this in two ways:
- if you have a paid Business plan you can use Rules for this. You can base it on a custom field, or you can do it for all tasks
- if you are not on a business plan, but are ok to pay a little you can try Flowsana, as it does a lot of things, not just this
- you are not on a business plan, you are not ok to pay anything and you have a very small amount of tasks created with the form you can use Zapier. The Zap will be “New task created > Add Task to Section of Project”. This will work on all tasks.
- if you are not on a business plan, you are ok to pay and want Zapier - in the paid plan you can use filters and routing to do different things with the tasks, depending on some parameter in the task that you can pull. For example now the name of the task can include multiple values from few fields in the form and they are separated via “,”. You can use the comma as a separator and search for terms to route the task to the right section.
There is no other way that I know of and Asana will not fix it since
- they want you in the business tier
- there is no way in forms to solve the issue what happens if the section is deleted. They need to build a second Rules functionality in forms, which will not happen for sure.
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@RogerS You can easily do this with a rule.
- When task added to project;
- And moved to a certain section; give name of default section * task doesn’t have to be physically moved for asana to consider it moved.
- and has field [abc] set to [xyz];
- move it to a certain section
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This is ridiculous. They’re purposely are not building this rule to force users to pay for premium, and hamstringing the functionality of the app in the process. How could they build forms at all and not think it through otherwise. Just terribly bad Product Management.
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I have just started to utilise forms for projects in Board views after the workflow feature was launched.
I think it will be good to have the ability to connect options from a the form to go to specific sections.
The current workaround is to build custom fields that mirror the sections, but if I intend to keep the project simple, then this feature will come in handy!
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Is there any progress with this. Its pretty random. acts differently on every project
This would be incredibly helpful. I specifically searched the forum about this because it would make our workflow more efficient with that automation to move a form submission to a specific section.
Is there an update about this?
Hi @anon98574111,
If you are on the Asana Business or Enterprise subscription level, you can do this via a custom rule. (If you’re below that, you can use our Flowsana integration’s rule capability to accomplish the same thing.)
Hi all, as @Phil_Seeman said, the users can set a rule to add tasks created by form to a certain section. Please take a look at the screenshot below.
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