😋 How not to be bothered by archived projects in the autocomplete

[Bastien_Siebman]

During my last Asana consulting call, a client gave me a good challenge: how to hide archived projects from showing up in the project autocomplete of a task, without deleting the projects all together?

Here is the trick we found:

At the top of each archived project, create a task named for example « Project: XXXX »

Rename the project with a random name (or the date)

You’ll still be able to find the project by searching for the top task, but because you renamed the project it won’t bother you as much in the project autocomplete.

Anyone interested by that trick?

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[Stephanie_Oberg]

Clever…very clever. However, it leaves me a little queasy, as it requires destroying and/or degrading user-created data to cope with an Asana design flaw.

[LEGGO]

@Stephanie_Oberg

Clever…very clever.

Agree!

Is there not a #productfeedback feedback to add a checkbox in the right of the Advanced Search text? Sample below:

[Bastien_Siebman]

@Stephanie_Oberg

Clever…very clever. However, it leaves me a little queasy, as it requires destroying and/or degrading user-created data to cope with an Asana design flaw.

Yes indeed

@LEGGO that would good, or maybe just exclude archive and add a filter in advanced search.

[BCavello]

In my case, the frustration is autocompleting when assigning a task to a project, not the search function.

[Bastien_Siebman]

My trick would work as well

[Shia_Liu]

Does this trick still work in 2024? Can someone do a recording to show what exactly needs to be done? I tried it but the archived project still shows up in the “Projects” dropdown when assigning a task to project.

[Bastien_Siebman]

It shows up before typing anything or when typing the old name?

[Shia_Liu]

It shows up before typing anything.

[Bastien_Siebman]

It will pushed down by newest project as you work. My trick was a way to not have that project show up when searching.