Hi! I’m fetching data on user tasks from their ‘My Tasks’ page. While the web app’s task table displays project names for subtasks within a project, the JSON data does not include project names for these subtasks. Is there a straightforward way to retrieve the project names for nested subtasks, or do you need to extract them by referencing parent tasks via additional requests?
Thank you!
Hi @Elena_Maeva,
The UI in My Tasks was recently updated to display the project name for subtasks but this is just a UI presentational element only; that property doesn’t exist in the underlying data store, and since the Asana API functions at the data store level, you won’t find it in your API data.
Bottom line: yes, you’ll need to reference the parent task which is actually attached to the project at the data store level.
One caveat: it is possible to actually attach a subtask to a project, and if you do, then you WILL get the project data returned within the API for that subtask object.
(Fun fact: the “Projects” column in My Tasks does not visually differentiate between a subtask which is actually attached to a project and one which is not but is just visually presenting the project in that column. When they first added this recent feature, some of us tried to argue for a visual distinction between those two different states, but we were not ultimately successful. They actually did have a visual distinction in an early beta, but they removed it when the feature was released. 
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Hi Phil,
I got it, thank you very much for such detailed explanation!