Sometimes there is nothing you can complete until a previous step is done. This is where the dependent task settings come in. The problem is that the dependent task shows in your task list even though there is nothing to update or work on.Having tasks that are unactionable in your task list clutters the work flow and makes what is due confusing.
For dependent tasks, you should be able to assign to someone for WHEN it becomes active. It shouldn’t show up in their tasks list until the previous task is complete.
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Agreed. How about when you mark it dependent it doesn’t show official assigned until the task it was waiting on was completed. Seems like a great idea.
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Or some type of indicator when it’s assigned that it’s dependent on something else. If it’s grayed and has an indicator of “Waiting on” clearly? Internally, we’ve started putting * in front of tasks that have dependencies so people know they need to wait but it isn’t as obvious as we’d like
I completely agree. This is a huge problem. If the dependent tasks appear regardless of whether they’re ready to be worked on, that’s creating a lot of babysitting work. I really think this is a deal breaker for us.
I see this post was written six years ago, was there anything done for that by Assana? Maybe they need to create an Asana task for it. 
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Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply
Blocked tasks now show with an hourglass icon instead of a checkmark. Also…
Until/if Asana offers this, the recommended approach to change the visibility of blocked tasks is to use a rule in My Tasks like this:
So when the task initially appears in your My Tasks (with hourglass) you can move it to a collapsed “Later” section, and then when unblocked it will pop into your Now (or other) section.
Larry
Has any progress been made on this? It clutters the task list so much.
We also could really use this.
This would be really helpful for feedback loops and other large parent tasks that would prevent My Tasks and other project boards to become flooded. It can be hard to find things when every project has multiple dependencies and a lot of work to have to regularly move things into a specific column/section. Either being able to automate it to a dependencies section in My Tasks if it is dependant OR just adding in the filter OR both would be great. Then it is fresh in a This Week column when its actually ready!
Has there been any development on this request? We are consistently having issues with team members completing tasks in the “wrong order”, and ignoring the dependencies that were blocking said task. Is there a way to hide those tasks until dependencies are complete, or “force” a task not to allow the complete button to be checked off until the dependency is complete?
Is this forum just a place to complain or does Asana development actually look at these requests?
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