Including subtasks in overview/status update

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Using subtasks to organize work is useful. It allows a person to identify the steps and dependencies required for their work and schedule their tasks. However, Asana seems to assume that subtasks are small or not require resources, time or effort. A person can complete time-consuming or difficult subtasks that bubble up to tasks and projects, yet when generating their status update, the “completed tasks” during that time period is blank. This is both surprising and disappointing.

The workaround appears to be to promote any/all subtasks to projects’ main tasks (the first level down from project). However, this makes work more difficult to organize and prioritize when working toward a goal.

Unless or until Asana includes subtasks as an option in status updates, is there another way to easily report on completed subtasks in status updates.

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@Kyle_Bellin we’re actively working on fixing this! Subtasks will inherit the project of their parent tasks so that they also show up in reporting etc… I’ve marked as Considered given we have some work-in-progress to complete before we can ship this in the next 6 months.

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My mistake. I overlooked something.

Subtasks do NOT automatically inherit their parent’s project. You have to assign a project to each subtask even though it is a subtask of a task that is already part of that project. If you do that, then completed subtasks should show up in the overview update widgets.

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Thank you.

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@Kyle_Bellin not your mistake at all - this issue has been many, many years open and I’m just excited to be able to share we’re working on it now.

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