We use a single project as an engineering backlog and have several sections within it to organize it. It would be great to collapse those sections and when saving the layout as default, keep them collapsed when a page refresh occurs.

I have not found a way to collapse sections at all, even if the view does not save as the default view - which would be preferred, certainly! Are others aware of a way to collapse sections at all using current functionality?

[image] Kendall: I have not found a way to collapse sections at all This capability is arriving as part of the larger change to be able to switch between list and board views, now underway: [image] Switching from Boards to List View (and vice versa) 🚀 Features Launched It’s actively happening right now - they are converting a batch of workspaces each day. I haven’t seen any update on how long they think it will take but I believe it’ll be a few months before it’s done - after all, they have literally millions of users, so imagine how many workspaces! So your data could be converted literally today, or in a few weeks/months; we’ll all have to have a little patience but at least it’s finally here. As soon as the list projects in your workspaces undergo this conversion (should be sometime within the next couple of months based on the latest news updates), you will be able to collapse your sections when in list view!

If you sort a list view by a custom field that is created with dropdown options, then you will see that Asana sorts it for you as toggle-able sections. You can close them but they won’t stay closed if you refresh the page. That’s what my feature request above is about. [20]

@Alena_Dagneau Ah, OK. In Asana terminology those aren’t actually “sections”. I don’t know of an official term for what you’re describing but I suppose it would be “custom field groupings”. I.e. the request would be Keep custom field groupings collapsed when saved under “Save layout as default”.

We got the new collapsable section feature during the weekend and the first comment I got from users was how do we keep them collapse when switching form one project to another one.

Keeping sections collapsed when leaving an re-entering a project would be a great feature. Is there any place to vote for change requests?

You can vote at the top @Philip_McCreight where I made the original request :slight_smile:

Thanks… seems I was kind of blind :slight_smile:

So I am loving this, especially the ability to collapse sections. Makes things much cleaner. HOWEVER - the sections default to all being open. This means that, to make it clean, I have to go zip them back up before I can choose what I want to see. Is there a way to make the default Section setting to be un-expanded, and then to expand them as I see fit? (instead of having them default to be expanded and me having to go close them to get a cleaner view)? Thanks! Andrew

Keep collapsed sections collapsed when saved under "Save layout as default"

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Sean4 13 October 2019 00:36 8

Yes. The ability to keep sections collapsed by default would be a great addition.

Asana, show me your BUTs 🍑

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