It would be incredibly helpful if the comments/activity section of each task could contain a FULL history of all changes to that task including any changes to custom fields. It is my understanding if one user makes multiple consecutive changes to the same task property within a 24 hour period (where by “consecutive” I mean one user makes multiple changes without another user changing that property), the activity stream will only show the most recent change made. For audit purposes, it is essential that all changes be displayed. If the task view is not the place for this, maybe a “task history export” could be developed where I could export the task history into CSV/Excel.
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Ping @Ross_Grambo, any plan to change that 24 hours window?
(It’s actually out of the API team’s control; it’s a function of the coding in the core web app - the API team is limited by the events available to them in the platform itself.)
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Thanks @Phil_Seeman 
@Tim_Rametta, this isn’t in our near terms plans, but thanks for creating this thread, I’ll be sure to keep you posted here once I have an update on this topic!
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Recording entire history for all field updates is extremely important and should be in ASANA’s near term plans. I echo the request to allow exporting of this information as well.
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Surprised this doesn’t have more visibility and votes, audit trail has been a massive hole in Asana for years and apparently still isn’t being addressed?
Much as I love this platform it’ll never be taken seriously as a large scale project management solution without some due diligence baked in…
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Hello! Apologies if there is a more recent conversation on this, but I believe that this feature was added at some point and was extremely helpful (e.g. reverting a due date or an accidental field update). However, as of recently like the last week or so, tasks no longer show any of these updates in the task history feed. Is this a change that Asana implemented or is this information living somewhere else now? It’s been very disruptive to our team unfortunately so we’re really hoping the information still lives somewhere we can access it. Thanks in advance!
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Hi @Taylor_Cohen,
No, actually not - Asana still performs “story consolidation” i.e. does not show multiple changes to a field by one person within a 24 hour period. So this Product Feedback thread is still relevant.
Here you’re referring to a new Asana feature that’s not related to this Product Feedback request but is discussed here:
As mentioned in that thread, you’ll need to use the new “All Activity/Comments” dropdown to switch between viewing those two types of info.
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Thank you so much! Totally missed that little update.
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When I edit a custom field, I can see who created, all the history of people who edit it and the current status, but I can not see the changes that each user did along the time. It will be very beneficial to keep track of what changed and who did it as with the tasks.
David
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This has caused a huge headache for us. Someone changed the custom field options and it broke all of our rules. I can see the View Change History, but can I revert back to one of those previous histories like you can with a Word document? Unfortunately, we cannot recall all the previous dropdown options.
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Hi Everyone 
Previously, after editing a task’s description, I could see the actual changes logged in the all activity view. I’ve recently noticed this isn’t the case anymore - there isn’t even a superficial ‘description changed’ log. My older tasks still have their edit history, but newer tasks aren’t producing these logs. I do still see ‘Added to project, ‘Due date changed’ and ‘Task assigned’ log messages.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Thank you!
Yes, I just noticed this too, both with a new task I created and an older task with an extensive story history; in both cases I didn’t see notice of “… changed the description” nor the “Show difference” link.
There’s some delay, I think, or maybe batching of these stories, but still, it doesn’t seem right to me.
Could you please create a support ticket: see How to contact our Support Team.
@Forum-team, this might be worthy of an escalation/critical bug.
Thanks,
Larry
Thanks Larry. Chatting to support - I’m sure they will figure it out.
Best wishes, @AnAsanaUser, and if you have a chance to update this thread with the outcome, that would be wonderful.
Thanks,
Larry
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Info from Asana:
After discussing this with our engineering team and attempting to replicate the behavior on our side, I can confirm that what you’re seeing is expected. When multiple changes are made by the same person in close succession, Asana often bundles those actions into a single activity log entry. This means the timestamp shown reflects the time of the last bundled change, not necessarily the exact time of each individual edit.
If there’s a longer time gap between actions, or if someone else makes a change to the task in between, Asana will break those actions out into separate log entries with their own timestamps. For example, if you change the due date and no one else interacts with the task for a while, that change might show as part of a grouped update. But if another team member edits the task description before you make another change, the system will log each person’s activity separately and more precisely.
This behavior is a known limitation of how task activity tracking currently works in Asana. It’s something that’s been raised before and we absolutely understand how a more detailed log would be valuable, especially for teams with high collaboration or audit needs.
Can’t ask for more that I suppose 
interesting that the capability is there to track multiple users’ edits more precisley than a single user’s. Hopefully that means it wouldn’t be too hard to change it so that singe user edits are tracked in more detail.
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Thanks for following up, @AnAsanaUser
I’ve merged this topic into an existing one where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the Vote button.
Thanks,
Larry