Sections don’t appear in search. How can I search for a section by name?

Hi @Chaz , thank you for reaching out! :wave: As @Bastien_Siebman mentioned, at the moment it is no possible to search for Sections. With that said, you could search for all task in a particular Section by creating this query: [image] You will see all the Sections nested in the Project selected …

I just looked at the advanced search and there is indeed nothing there. The new sections are like columns in board view, and you can’t search for a column. Maybe that will be done soon? :man_shrugging:

Please bring this feature! In our case, we have a project were well collect all potential new clients. Then each client is a section. At the moment it’s impossible to search for those. Thanks!

Weird, it does work for me, see screenshot [Capture d’écran 2021-07-29 à 11.01.22]

Still annoying to see that section names don’t come up in Asana searches. Asana really needs to work on search overall!

Hello, all! Is there any plan to allow (re-introduce?) Section as a Filter criteria? Thanks so much!

[image] Kevin_Kriner1: re-introduce Don’t recall having ‘section’ as a criterion before but still waiting for this :pray:t3:

Ah - good point! I re-read the post again, and it appears I was not quite following. The OP was looking for a way to search for Section as a search criterion by entering some value for that criterion, which I agree, does not appear to be current or past functionality (so it would not be re-introduci…

Hi, all I conducted a search within the forum, but unfortunately my efforts were in vain. So I made a suggestion. [image] Search function to locate section Product Feedback I want to search by entering the section name in the search box. [image] Reference:…

Bumping this as a feature request. My team uses sections constantly as the title of a sub-project. The fact that we can’t search for these is really annoying.

How can I search for a Section?

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Dan_Levine1 28 July 2021 22:50 5

I dont think this is working anymore – I cannot get the dropdown with Section options after selecting a project in the search bar. Is there an updated way to search for all tasks in a section for a saved search? Thank you.

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How can I search for a Section?

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