Do you wish there were āsection templatesā in Asana?
Well, me too, but it isnāt a thing yet. Letās find a workaround, shall we?
The idea is to use task templates to mimic a section template. Letās say you wanted to templatize a section with 3 tasks: T1, T2, T3. You then create a task template with 3 subtasks (T1, T2, T3).
Whenever you want to create a new section from a template, go through the following:
- create an empty section
- use the task template to create a task
- open the task, multi-select the subtasks, drag-and-drop them into the section
- delete the original task
This is not that far from a section template is it? What do you think about this workaround?
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I say it works for now and I will be using that method. Hopefully, we can see some sort of update to sections soon, as they are underutilized in my opinion.
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Thanks @Bastien_Siebman , any thoughts on if this could work across projects, or just within a single project? I tried:
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Creating a section head >
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Labeling a task template within it >
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Marking it as living in multiple projects
But that didnāt work for creating that same section title in the other projectsā¦but I may be misunderstanding your suggestion, though either way like the idea of section templates!
It seems it could be just like a custom field in a way, except the custom field could be selected for section names. Two
for me
I am confused by your wording. When you mention task template you mean a task used as a template which you duplicate, or a real task template?
Ugh, I really hope they add the section template feature soon, because the subtasks feature is not ideal for me at allā¦
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anyone know if this is a feature request?
Hey @Jade_Melcher, the relevant feedback request thread is here but it seems you already found it.