Permit My Tasks Custom fields to be visible to others when My Tasks is shared and field is in the org library

[Jamie_Goodman]

Hi Asana experts! One of my managers would like to see her employee’s My Tasks list, including custom fields. The task list is shared, but she cannot see a very important Custom Field called “Bucket” on the tasks.

• I have had the employee add the custom field to the org library.
• I had the employee remove the field and then add it back from the org library
• We all restarted our Asana apps.

Neither the manager nor I can see the field. And when I go to look at a task in the employee’s My Tasks, I see this error message where the custom field should be.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have!

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Jamie_Goodman,

For privacy reasons Asana does not make custom fields in a user’s My Tasks visible to other users.

While the topic is a bit misnamed (it references Priority but it’s really referring to custom fields overall), I think this is the best thread for you to upvote to support getting that feature added:

Ability to Sort someone else's My Tasks by Priority (Custom Field)

As best as I can tell, currently it is not possible to rank another person’s My Tasks by Priority. this seems very odd considering that Priority is a native Asana field. So it is difficult to understand why it would not be usable for the purpose of sorting another person’s tasks. I think you will agree that sorting another person’s tasks by Priority is much more useful and relevant for project management than sorting that person’s tasks by number of Likes, for example, or the many other paramet…

[Jamie_Goodman]

That’s very disappointing. It would be a great feature to allow someone to view a custom field in my tasks, even if it was on a case-by-case basis!

[Phil_Seeman]

I agree, @Jamie_Goodman!

[lpb]

I’ve moved this topic to where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the Vote button at the top-left (as I just did).

I agree with @Phil_Seeman that it’s also a good idea to vote for this too:

Ability to Sort someone else's My Tasks by Priority (or any Custom Field)

As best as I can tell, currently it is not possible to rank another person’s My Tasks by Priority. this seems very odd considering that Priority is a native Asana field. So it is difficult to understand why it would not be usable for the purpose of sorting another person’s tasks. I think you will agree that sorting another person’s tasks by Priority is much more useful and relevant for project management than sorting that person’s tasks by number of Likes, for example, or the many other paramet…

Thanks,

Larry

[Phil_Seeman]

@lpb my concern is at their core these two topics are really asking for the same thing, so I think they should be merged so as not to dilute votes. What do you think?

[lpb]

I see your point, but decided that it this request is a first step, and sorting is a second step, and this would valuable even if sorting wasn’t part of it or was added later.

[Jamie_Goodman]

Thanks for the thoughts on that. I need something more specific to our work categories or other custom information and not just Priority ranking

[Bastien_Siebman]

That’s odd because I would swear what you describe is actually the case already. For example when my colleague @Julien_RENAUD is assigned on a task, I used to be able to see fields he only has in his My Tasks (fields were part of the library).
Did this behaviour change with the task pane rework around fields?