This is not a bug in Asana’s eyes…it is the intended behavior. Subtasks do NOT inherit the Project of their parent Task. You can assign a Subtask to a project (that of its Parent or any other one, it’s up to you), and it has to be done individually and repeatedly. This takes 100% of new users by surprise and has generated lots of complaints.
I tried adding the project to the subtask but now that subtask is showing up in the project twice. It would just be so helpful for that to not be the case.
Thank you for the explanation. I am a new Asana user and also agree that it would be helpful if the subtasks automatically inheret the parent project tag. Perhaps it could be a setting where the user could toggle whether they would like their subtasks to also include the project label or not by default. It seems this would be a win-win! Keep it up though, I find it to be an awesome app so far!
Any new developments here? Our conventions include starting every task and subtask with the project name - so that we can see it easily on timeline and calendar views, and for ease of reference in messaging. I had hoped templates would enable us to automate this; instead we have to cut and paste the project’s abbreviated name in every single task and subtask - or am I missing something?