Moving Tasks in My Tasks Deletes Due Date

[That_Sarah_Jones]

One of my coworkers came across this oldie but goodie.
Their My Tasks screen was on the board view and they were organizing their tasks by urgency and it was deleting their due dates. I did a google and found this thread

Send help. I erased all due dates by accident.

In my list view, the option for “mark as upcoming” and “mark as later” seems to have disappeared. We also recently upgraded to premium, maybe that’s why? I never use this view, but in our last team meeting we were asked to assign recently assigned tasks as either today, upcoming, or later. So I moved the majority of my recently assigned to Later, which includes tasks for MONTHS in advance. All mapped out with my team. The problem is, when I dragged them to Later, the due date disappeared. And …

which references the exact issues.
Removing the sort by due date fixes the issue but it’s so easy to accidentally do. The worst part is that it doesn’t record the due date change in the task log so you can’t easily put it back to the correct due date.

[lpb]

@That_Sarah_Jones,

For better or worse, Asana does not see this as a bug because it’s working as intended, so I’ve moved this thread to Tips and Tricks.

Thanks,

Larry

[That_Sarah_Jones]

Gotcha! In that case, does anyone have any tips to remind them not to move tasks around in “Sort by Date” Having the task log what the due date was before you removed it would be really nice!

[lpb]

@That_Sarah_Jones,

My tips are found here:

Your Simple (or Advanced) Strategy for Asana’s My Tasks

I don’t recommend using Due date as primary sort in the first place, and if you use it as secondary sort (Sort within section toggled on) then you won’t experience the dangerous issue.

Hope that helps,

Larry

[That_Sarah_Jones]

The sort within sections is perfect! Thanks for pointing it out!