Private and Hidden Tasks/Sections in Public Projects

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This would be a very useful feature!

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Thanks for sharing your feedback with us! We already have a thread in the #productfeedback category for this request so I’ve gone ahead and merged this post with Private and Hidden Tasks/Sections in Public Projects to consolidate feedback.

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I would like to mention once again that private tasks and sections within a public project would be amazing for us! The workaround does not work for us.

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How is this not a thing yet?? So basic and necessary, it has kept us from making Asana customer facing.

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Please get this feature in! We are trying to use Asana for Support Requests. We want a public project for all our users but have the ability to create private tasks so folks only have access to their tasks.

What we really need is a way to have two separate permission groups for a “team”
The first group is the overall owners of the team. They have read/write to all tasks and boards.
The second group would be a general group that can create private tasks within the boards. They can only see tasks they create or collaborate with.

This would be awesome for support requests.

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As you can see we need that upgrade ASAP. Why are we still waiting a simple update like this? It has been 4 years that people ask you to do it. #product-feedback api

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This would be extremely helpful and eliminate the workaround of creating multiple projects for 1 larger project . Hope to see this implemented soon! Product Feedback

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Is there a workaround if we need to create private tasks or sections within a public project? Basically, the entire production team should have access to the project accept client info and project contract. Only management should have access to that and we want to keep the projects self-contained as much as possible. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated :pray:

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great workaround

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Has there been a solution to this yet and, if not, is it in the works?

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Just echoing here that this feature is needed. For us, we have funded projects where we need to coordinate across the whole team on the proposal, but the budget (eg salary) info is sensitive. I’d like to see subtasks that are private for this reason.

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We could also really use this feature at our company!

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It would be SO HELPFUL to be able to add private or hidden agenda items into our meeting agendas when sensitive topics need to be discussed. I would love to be able to toggle visibility on and off.

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We are having a hard time managing private vs. external tasks when managing customer accounts. Is there any update on making a section or task private within a project?

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Upvoting this… it would really be ideal if I can make certain sections of a project private. For my use case I share plans with customers and they do not need to see all the internal tasks

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This would be really useful for our business. We have a project to arrange who will be where on a weekly basis. The same calendar has annual leave on there so we can see who will be off to avoid booking them in on that day. However, we don’t want others to see the nature of any absences, so to be able to hide these tasks/section would be really useful.

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@aji005 can you provide an update on this, please?
My org needs a solution for centralized “live” visibility of overdue tasks. Everyone sets up a rule in their My Tasks page to send their overdue tasks to a Missed Due Dates board. This allows focused and daster follow through versus other methods we have tried (i.e. reporting dashboard, adding one admin as collaborator for ALL tasks). We need a rule that checks and excludes private tasks from being sent to the Missed Due Dates board because this action renders the task public. Can you propose a solution to this?

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Updates are offered by Asana in relevant threads when they have new information.

My recommendations:

  • Avoid the My Tasks solution until/if Asana offers more options to avoid the problem you’re running into there.
  • Clearly define which exact group needs to see which exact set of overdue tasks.
  • Use the features of teams access rights and member, and/or project access rights and membership, and/or portfolios, and or task collaborators to help facilitate this.
  • Use Universal reporting chart(s) to specify the domains over which to report and filter for Overdue, then click on the chart segments to see individual tasks in search results view.

I imagine you and the others in this thread want a simpler, all-purpose solution, but I’m not sure this is easily accommodated due to possibly differening needs and likely complexity of potential solutions and possible conflict with underlying models in Asana.

Thanks,

Larry

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there’s a lot of times where we have a big project and we want to keep everything in the project as organized but there are some financial info or sensitive info we would rather not others see or know but are working on the project.

We know we can make projects private or permission to certain staff and we have make sub task open to other staff while the parent task is restricted.

I wish we have the ability to make TASK in projects restricted so we can keep all sensitive info in the project together without having to create 2 separate projects for the same project to keep sensitive info apart.

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Welcome, @Baldwin_Cheng,

I’ve merged your post into an existing topic where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the purple Vote button.

Thanks,

Larry