# Project Dashboards: Provide a way to show an accurate count of top-level tasks in the project

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/project-dashboards-provide-a-way-to-show-an-accurate-count-of-top-level-tasks-in-the-project/1095946>\
**Category:** Product Ideas\
**Tags:** dashboards, projects\
**Created:** [8 September 2025 14:02 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/project-dashboards-provide-a-way-to-show-an-accurate-count-of-top-level-tasks-in-the-project/1095946 "2025-09-08T14:02:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\
**Post date:** [8 September 2025 14:02 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/project-dashboards-provide-a-way-to-show-an-accurate-count-of-top-level-tasks-in-the-project/1095946/1 "2025-09-08T14:02:23Z")

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Given this set of top-level tasks, where one itself is a subtask:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/4X/1/3/9/139257860c0e98387fd401838f2fea6cc16ff9c4.png)

Here’s what the three (no subtasks filter, don’t show subtasks, only show subtasks) dashboard counts show:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/4X/2/c/7/2c75be815e29a667e1e33bd9968c5379619cbe10.png)

There isn’t a way to show in a dashboard chart a count of 3 top-level tasks (regardless of whether they’re subtasks or not).

See also [More tasks appear on the dashboards than actually exist](https://forum.asana.com/t/more-tasks-appear-on-the-dashboards-than-actually-exist/1094042) which started this discussion.

Thanks,

Larry

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**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\
**Post date:** [9 September 2025 10:07 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/project-dashboards-provide-a-way-to-show-an-accurate-count-of-top-level-tasks-in-the-project/1095946/2 "2025-09-09T10:07:14Z")

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That’s a tough one, the main problem being the definition of “subtask”. Here you want to be able to say “subtask, in this project’s context”