We use templates a lot. We have some tasks that are relevant for several template projects. E.g. we have a template task for completing and archiving a client project.
I am struggling with a good way to maintain such a task. Below the struggles:
This task is relevant for +20 template projects. I don’t want to maintain that specific template task to +20 templates individually, because if then I want to adjust the task I need to do it twenty times.
Additionally, if I add 1 template task to all template projects, and you use that template, that specific task will be part of 20 projects. Also not ideal.
Now I have created an external template task project where I held such tasks and we duplicate them when needed and move them to the relevant project. However, this is also not ideal, because people can forget to do this, since it is not in the template projects we use.
Somebody knows a better solution? And can you use workflows to duplicate such a template task (e.g. when you create project X, then create duplicate task Y)?
I see what you mean, it’s not yet possible to multi-home a task in more than 20 projects/templates. From your description, I see you are already following the workarounds I usually advise.
I’ve gone ahead and moved this thread to the Product Feedback category to allow votes. I’ve also adjusted the thread’s title to make it more discoverable for other users. I hope you don’t mind!
If I am not mistaken, it is actually not “not ideal” but rather “catastrophic”: the task will be created in the new project, but also duplicated inside the 19 other templates. Am I right?
Are there updates to this? Various AI tells me there’s no limit to the number of projects an Asana task can be multihimed to, but we’re still using messy, complicated run-arounds. Is the limit still 20?
Garrett here, a Group PM Lead. Yes the limit is currently 20, but we’re actively planning on increasing that limit. My team would love to know your ideal product limit for multihomed tasks: if not 20, how many would you ideally desire?
Prerequisite work to support an increased multi-home limit has been committed for our Q4 (Nov 1 - Jan 31). There is still discovery work to be done so I will wait to mark as In Development, but still wanted to share an update with you all.
