There is a lot of reading that team members have to do to interpret a task, it can be overwhelming when a lot of it is actually not relevant to the particular task.
The option to hide blank fields from the main task view, allowing them still to be set within a submenu of the “More” Menu would be fantastic
Try clicking on “Show 7 more fields”
Now you should have the option “Hide custom fields”
That is a great way to do this. My suggestion would be to change the wording. Right now “Hide custom fields” sounds like it would hide ALL the custom fields, not just the empty ones.
I don’t think that’s a good idea, you forgot the use case “I am searching for a field to update its value”…
I agree. Additionally, some workflows require that certain fields be populated for a given project. Scrolling away too many of them, especially the ones listed first, might short-circuit certain intended workflows.
There is a great way to implement this, taking a page from Notion. Allow a setting on each field when you create it where you choose one of:
That way you are able to choose based on the particular field. And you would always be able to click the link to view all fields.
It definitely gets unwieldy to have them all showing, especially if you are multi-homing tasks across projects or workflows.
Also voting for this. JIRA has a similar function where it docks away empty fields so that if you need them, you can find them and add data to them, but if they aren’t being used, hiding them away only lets you see the data that matters.
These three options sound good for our use case as well. Currently, we stand at over 50 custom fields, only a fraction of which are used, however, based on type of job.
No! Asana has not implemented this feature…
I have a project with about 20 custom fields required to address users’ requests and trigger rules, however, most of those fields are not relevant for the people taking action on the tasks.
While I have instructed them to “hide and ignore” Asana always displays in full the entire set of fields for ALL PROJECTS!!!
That should be something for Asana to pay attention to: An option to Show All, Hide All, Hide Empty, Hide all..
Since the menu for the fields includes a “X” sign to remove from the project some users thought it was a way to get rid of the clutter… And ended up removing the task from the Project 
This would be awesome to have, i have fields that i need to add onto my form, but i dont want them cluttering the space in the actual ticket that is created. I need the data for reporting but not visible to the team
This would be a really valuable improvement for us too. We have a number of custom fields and formula fields that are used purely in the background to support workflows, rules and reporting, but they aren’t relevant to most users when viewing a task. Being able to hide blank or non-essential fields would significantly reduce visual clutter and make the task pane much easier to scan.
This also complements the ongoing discussion around tasks becoming overloaded with large numbers of custom fields: Updated view of projects and custom fields within tasks needs improving
BUMP! I need this too! I like the idea of setting the visibility preferences for each field in each project. Like, I know you can for List view, but I mean for task view.
Tbh, it goes into an overall wish I’ve been having. More options for rearranging task view. But that’s a different topic.
