There’s no “X” beside the project name in the multi-select > projects popup if tasks are only in a single project like this one:
That means that when you use multi-select there’s no way to remove the task from that project, which I might want to do for various reasons (e.g., maybe because I only want it in My Tasks now).
If I single-select any of the tasks, there’s no such limitation in Task Details–the “X” is present:
Why is multi-select preventing me from doing something efficiently that I can do inefficiently (one-by-one) in Task Details?
Mutli-select includes the “X” for tasks multi-homed to multiple projects; it seems to only remove in the case of single project membership.
Thanks @Emily_Roman. I voted for this because I think you should use a confirm dialog for it, not remove the feature. @Bastien_Siebman, you should vote too since you seemed to agree!
I got stuck with a client on this. The use case was: 20 subtasks were being made part of a project by mistake. He wanted to remove the task (subtasks ) from the project
It would be useful to be able to remove multiple tasks from a project rather than do it one by one. There is only option to move multiple tasks to another project but not to remove it from a project entirely.
In response to another question, I realized there’s a workaround until/if Asana ever implements this:
Here’s a hacky workaround. Create a dummy project, multi-select the tasks, make sure they are assigned to someone, then re-home them to that project. Now delete that project. The tasks remain (but only if they were assigned, otherwise they would have been deleted too).
Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug you’re experiencing:
Since the latest update (multiselect task panel), I’m unable to bulk delete projects from tasks where I could do this in the past.
Steps to reproduce:
Multiselect tasks in a project and select “edit project”. You can edit the linked project, but can not detach it from all projects. A delete cross icon next to the edit pencil would fix this.
Browser version:
Latest chrome
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Happy Friday @Thomas_Rypens and thank you for reaching out!
Thank you for taking time to report this behaviour. I don’t believe this is a Bug but rather the current expected behaviour. Either way I’ve gone ahead and filed a task for the Team and I’ll keep you posted as soon as I get an update from them.
Thank you for your help Thomas! Have a great weekend!
Hi @Thomas_Rypens Just a quick word to let you know our team has acknowledged this issue and is planning to take a look into it. Please note that this might not be prioritised straight away but that we will keep you posted here as soon as we’ve an update! Thanks again for your help and patience, we really appreciate it!
Any update on this? I have tons of tasks that I need to detach from a project (projects are our meeting agenda’s and tasks get distributed to the people when they become actionable and detached from the meeting agenda once distributed).
This is really messing up my workflow. As this was a feature before, can this just be added again?
If 1 project can be detached from all projects, why can’t multiple projects be detached from all projects? This does not make sense.