Insert Variables at Cursor Location

When creating rules that update/create a task description, comment, or task name, inserting variables into that text should be done at the current cursor location, rather than as a new block at the end of the existing text.

Very often, we are creating new descriptions based on an existing description or block of text that we need to insert variables into. It’s very tedious and difficult to have to remove sections of the pasted in content to then insert the variable and re-paste the remaining sections of text.

Current Behavior:
When inserting a variable placeholder into a task description/name/comment, the variable is automatically added to the end of the existing content.

Preferred Behavior:
Variable placeholder will be inserted at the current cursor location in the text.

Bonus/Alternative Behaviors:

  • Being able to drag and drop OR copy and paste the variable to a new location in the content.
  • Making it so variables can be inserted into code blocks.

NOTE: This was suggested as a possible bug/customer service issue and I have verified that it is currently behaving as expected.

I confirmed my prior post here:

that this is not an issue for me with the “Set task title to” rule action.

Thanks,

Larry

Thanks for the reminder @lpb, just edited the post text to reflect.

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This is a bug I mentioned to the AI Studio team a while back and they fixed it for “Fill with AI”.

Who wrote this? Asana Support?

I wrote the note, sorry to confuse. When I took this through the customer support/bug process, I was told that this is working as expected.

No way, it used to work properly :grimacing: