When we search for a comment, we need to scroll through the task history and find it. It will be easier if we can open the comment location. We can jump directly to the comment location after clicking.
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Hi,
Has there been any update on this request, or is a solution currently being considered or worked on?
This feature would be very helpful for us as well. In addition, it would be great if users could search comments and jump directly to the selected comment instead of having to scroll through the entire comment history.
Some of our tasks contain 30-40 comments or more, and manually searching for a specific comment can be quite time-consuming. Being able to navigate directly to the relevant comment would significantly improve efficiency.
Thanks for considering this enhancement!
Best regards,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thanks for sharing this idea! Could you elaborate a little on how you envision the comment search functionality working?
For example, would you like to search comments using specific keywords or phrases, filter comments by the person who posted them or by date, or have any other search criteria? Would you also expect to jump directly to the matching comment within the task?
Understanding your expectations will help us better evaluate the use case and explore possible solutions.
Hi Arun,
Thanks for your response! I’d be happy to explain what I have in mind.
Ideally, I would like to be able to search for specific keywords, terms, or phrases directly within the comment history of a task.
Asana’s advanced search already provides some of this functionality. For example, I can search for a keyword and find the task containing the relevant comment. However, when I open the task from the search results, I am not taken to the matching comment. Instead, I still have to scroll through the entire comment history to locate it manually.
What I would find particularly useful is:
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Search within a task: Enter a keyword or phrase to search specifically through the task’s comments.
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Highlight matching comments: Display or highlight comments containing the search term.
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Jump directly to a comment: Click on a search result and navigate directly to the corresponding comment within the task’s activity history.
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Preserve the context: See the original comment in its surrounding conversation, including replies, related discussions, and the date it was posted.
For me, the most important improvement would be the ability to navigate directly to a matching comment, especially from Asana’s existing advanced search results.
In our daily work, we often use task comments to document discussions, decisions, and important information. Some tasks have 30-40 comments or more, so finding a specific statement can be quite time-consuming.
Sometimes, simply finding the task is not enough. I need to understand the context in which something was discussed, check whether someone responded, or verify when a particular statement was made.
Filtering by author or date could certainly be useful additional options, but I would consider them secondary to keyword searching and direct navigation.
I believe this enhancement would make Asana’s comment history much more useful as a source of information and improve efficiency, especially for teams that use tasks to document ongoing discussions and decisions.
I hope this helps clarify the use case!
Best regards,
Martin
Hi Martin,
I tested a workaround that may help you locate specific comments within a task without manually scrolling through the entire comment history.
Here’s how you can do it:
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Sort the comments: Use the sorting option to display comments by Newest or Oldest first, depending on your preference. Sorting by Newest can be useful when you’re looking for recent discussions.
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Open the task separately so that the task details and comments are displayed in their own view.
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Load all comments by scrolling through the comment history.
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Press Alt + F to open the browser’s Find feature.
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Enter the keyword or phrase you’re looking for.
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The browser will highlight the matching text and automatically scroll to its location in the comment history. Use the next and previous match controls to navigate between occurrences.
I’ve tested this using the keyword APPROVAL-648, and the browser successfully highlighted the matching text and navigated directly to the relevant comment, as shown in my screenshot.
One important caveat: All comments must be loaded into the page before searching. If some comments haven’t loaded, the browser’s Find feature won’t be able to locate text within them.
This isn’t a native comment-search feature in Asana, but it can serve as a practical workaround for finding specific information in tasks with long comment histories.
Hope this helps!
Hi Arun,
Thank you for your feedback.
I would like to give feedback. Could you share the duplicate task or project function with ChatGPT? Right now, we have a certain Asana templates, and using ChatGPT to help with some repeat work. So our Ideal working process would be as follows:
- Collect some info using an Asana form
- ChatGPT helps us duplicate a task from a certain template, then summarise the info and put it in the description.
- ChatGPT will help with assigning the task to me
Right now, we are stuck on duplicating the task. Could you help looking into this?
Hi @madelynho thanks for your message.
Could you please create a new topic for this issue? It looks like this question has been posted in the existing thread about comment search, and keeping it separate will help others find and follow the discussion more easily.
Thank you for understanding!
Hi, please check the link Access request: Could you share the duplicating task or project function with ChatGPT?
Just thought that it would be faster if I commented on this thread.
Hi Arun,
thanks for sharing this workaround. I tested it and can confirm that it works.
The only limitation is that it appears to be available only in the browser version. As I mainly use the desktop app, I unfortunately can’t benefit from it there.
It would be great if the same functionality were added to the app, since being able to quickly navigate to specific comments can save a significant amount of time when working with large comment threads.
Thanks again for pointing this out!
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