🔢 List of technical and data limitations in Asana

[Bastien_Siebman]

If this is confirmed, maybe add the 250 limit for read-only view mentioned here? How to Publicly Share a Calendar Over Task Limit

[Richard_Sather]

Thanks @Bastien_Siebman for raising this. As a result, I’ve added an entire section 10
Also added 2.2 & 2.3

Happy NY everyone

[Bastien_Siebman]

@Julien_RENAUD @Arthur_BEGOU make sure to look at section 10, there are limitations we were not aware of I believe.

[Richard_Sather]

Section 4 updated: 4.3 & 4.4 added

[Richard_Sather]

Quick updates: 4.5 & 4.6 added, some broken links to the guide repaired

[Bastien_Siebman]

@Richard_Sather I have a new one for you (and no answer on what the limit is)

[Richard_Sather]

how many tasks have you got @Bastien_Siebman ?? No filters I assume, all tasks visible?
I wonder if it’s a temporary bug… perhaps multi-sorting in My Tasks may soon come to ‘sort’ this out?

[Bastien_Siebman]

I had over 1000 incomplete tasks. I decreased it and it is working again, but would have loved to know the limit.

[Richard_Sather]

Hey @Bastien_Siebman , I just ran a test and the answer is 1,000 tasks but interesting to discover that some sorting works ok, see 8.2 added above.

Also added 8.3 & 8.4 as well as 4.8, inspired following your discussion on subtasks with @lpb

[lilrkt]

How about converting custom fields, noting that we can’t change multi-select back to single select.

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @lilrkt , good point, I’ve added it to 1.6, thanks!

@Richard_Sather

1.6. Unable to convert an existing single-select field to a multi-select field (and vice versa)

Vote here to increase
No reference currently in the guide but there are some good workarounds for migrating from one to the other by @Bastien_Siebman here and a video version here.

Btw all, also added 3.4 last week.

@Richard_Sather

3.4. Limit of 5 levels of branches within a Form’s branches

Asana Guide link

[Bastien_Siebman]

How come 1.6 is a data limitations? seems off to me

[Richard_Sather]

I thought about it too… but then I thought it’s more like a technical limitation, like some sorting issues and collapsable sections, no? or maybe it’s a BUT ?

[Bastien_Siebman]

Could be a BUT indeed, but I am sure you want your amazing post to become a list of missing features

[Phil_Seeman]

I’m with @Bastien_Siebman - I don’t think it fits here as a “limitation” in the context of what your goal is in this particular listing.

[Richard_Sather]

Thanks @Phil_Seeman , @Bastien_Siebman for your inputs. The clear goal of this topic is indeed to focus on the ‘numbers’ in regards to the limitations of the platform.

So reconsidering, I have removed 1.6 as well as a few others which, in hindsight, could be considered missing features rather than limitations. So moving onwards, will be open to suggestions that include ‘numbers’ - thus new emoji added in the title to remind us

@lilrkt , I hope you found what you were looking for here

[lilrkt]

Makes sense! +1

[Grigory_Krasovsky]

Hello, I need to add about 400 options to my single select custom field. Will I be able to do this? I mean do I get it right that the limit for this now is 500?

[lpb]

Yes!

[Bastien_Siebman]

@Grigory_Krasovsky if you are ok starting from scratch, maybe my tool “Custom Field Creator” can help with this task!