How to Automatically Move Only Top-Level Tasks Between Sections Without Showing Subtasks

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I’m leaving this question after feeling stressed from interacting with the AI help chat.
In my project, I’ve created multiple sections, and I want completed tasks to automatically move to another section based on a rule.
I tried setting this up myself, and I only want the top-level tasks to move to another section when marked as complete.
However, in practice, subtasks appear separately in the section view, which is not what I want.
I want subtasks to be visible only when I open a parent task, and in the section’s task list, only the top-level tasks should be displayed.
How can I achieve this behavior?

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Welcome, @윤여상,

I think maybe you need to toggle off this setting:

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Thanks,

Larry

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Also, this comment makes me suspect that you’re attaching subtasks to the project; this doesn’t happen by default but if you do it, it carries with it some side-effects, one of which is that subtasks show in the list view as if they’re top-level tasks. Removing the subtask from the project will stop this from happening.

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An update to @Phil_Seeman’s update to my answer(!):

Thanks for posting, Phil; I realize I only partially answered now, so thanks.

However, an update to yours: Actually, I think what happened was a side-effect from the “Run on subtasks” being toggled on initially, not sometning @윤여상 did explicitly. I think Asana was going out of its way to honor the rule’s action–moving the subtask to the Closed section. But because the subtask was not actually in the project (it was just a member of its parent task), Asana first added it to the project, so then it could move it to Closed.

So, @윤여상 should go to each task in Closed that’s a subtask and not wanted there, open that in the task detail pane, remove the subtask from the project, and that will clean up the past entries.

With the toggle off, you’ll then be set having cleaned up the old ones and prevented new recurrences for subtasks.

Thanks,

Larry

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Good point; that may well be it. Hopefully with our answers, @윤여상 will be able to make sense of it and resolve it!

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Thank you for the answer.
It was exactly what I needed.

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