Itās not that a specific decision was necessarily made to omit sections. Whatās happened is that Asana has recently changed the way sections are stored in terms of their internal data representation; this was done in order to allow a project to be viewed in both list and board formats instead of only one or the other.
As part of that change, they havenāt updated their importer to know about this section data change. Weāre hoping thatās just a āwhenā not an āifā and that they will update it, as @lpb was asking about in his last post. (Please note though that they donāt comment on anything before itās released so weāll probably have to wait and see.)
Well, āwait and seeā doesnt really cut it when you have hundreds of coaching clients all trying to import an Asana project and it doesnt work. It also makes me, the instructor look foolish when making the recommendation over other project management alternatives that just work.
I have te same problem here.
And when the task have subtasks its worst!
The subtask dont get the same section and get lost on the file. @Marie can we do something?
Can we have the same view as before?
Hi @Gabriela_Higa You can still create sections when importing, please refer to the first Section (āBefore you get started: tips to organize the data in your spreadsheetā) of this guide article: Asana CSV Importer ā¢ Asana Product Guide
If you continue running into trouble, please reach out to our Support team with screenshots of what youāre seeing, and if possible share your CSB file, that will help them reproduce your issue and help you find a solution.
Hi all, since dependencies and subtasks are now available when importing a CSV in Asana, Iāve slightly edited the title of this thread. Thank you all for your support!
Jus tried to export out a plan to import into another plan and this still doesnāt exist unfortunately. I see sections are now but no dependencies. Unfortunate.
Now the question is : āWHEN can the feature be implemented ?ā
If one canāt import or export the dependancies, then the product is simply useless.
ANY DATE with the CSV import and export for dependancies implemented ?
I exported my project into a .csv file but only to notice that some important fields I needed were missing - example: there was no dependencies field there which I need to check which task is being blocked and by which task.
Any leads on how to include dependencies in the .csv file would be really helpful.
Hi @Piyush_Sharma, welcome to the Asana Community Forum!
Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback We do already have an existing thread on this feature request in the Forum so Iāve gone ahead and merged your post with the existing one to consolidate feedback
Iāll loop back in on this thread should we have any updates!
Do we have any update regarding this thread?
It seems the section column is now existing and dependencies as well, but dependency doesnāt contain anything.
We use extensively dependencies and losing them in translation is frustrating as we save time with the CSV but losing a lot of time for dependencies again.
Hi all, and thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback with us.
Iām happy to share that CSV exports now support dependencies. Going forward, your CSV files will include two new columns: Blocked By (Dependencies) and Blocking (Dependencies).
As you can see in the screenshot above, Sections are also included in the CSV export, so Iām marking this product feedback topic as resolved. Let us know if you have any questions