Make functionality in live projects, project templates, and my tasks consistent

Not your typical feedback, but I feel it’s worth sharing.

Today I discovered the form functionality within project templates was behind the current form functionality.

I think this - and many other delays for features in project templates - is a symptom of the decision to make templates, live projects, and my tasks seem to be completely separate things behind the scenes.

From what I’ve seen, most of the attention goes out to the projects, which get the initial update. Templates and my tasks seem to lag behind with a lot of this functionality, and it seems a separate effort needs to update a lot of this functionality.

Another example of this is the customise menu, which still has the layout that was replaced for projects over a year ago.

To me, it makes more sense to have these to re-organise these into the same type of thing, with variations where it makes sense.

I think there are a lot of other things that feel like a hassle in project templates compared to live templates.

Although I’m sure it is complicated to merge this functionality, I think it would be an investment that would make it a lot easier to push features over the board and keep the interface consistent.

Other examples:

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Good list, @Jan-Rienk, and I sense Asana wished the same! :sweat_smile:

I would also add Duplicating a project template which seems to be a popular request.

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That’d actually be something I’d not enable for templates, if it were up to me.

See Allowing for duplicating of Project Templates - #120 by Jan-Rienk

2025-11-20: Updated list of examples

2025-12-11: added Enable setting a work schedule in project templates

2025-12-15: added Sort someone else’s My tasks and Add Timeline to My Tasks

2026-01-08: added: In My Tasks v2 List view, provide expand/collapse twisties for tasks with subtasks

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