Reference numbers for tasks

[Phil_Seeman]

@Erik_Graham,

Searching for the task ID does actually work.

The problem is that you most likely opened the CSV in Excel which truncates the last digit of the ID because it can’t by default handle numbers that large.

You can either open it a specific way in Excel to preserve all digits, or open it in Google Sheets which dosn’t have the truncation problem. For more on both of these options, see this thread:

Duplicating Tasks also duplicates the Task ID

I’ve used the “Duplicate Tasks” action from the dropdown and it works great. If a task needs to be broken up, this is my go to action. Working on reporting though, we’ve noticed that duplicate tasks are also duplicating the “Task ID”. This is creating issues in reporting where a Task ID is expected to be a unique identifier. The Task ID is not one of the selections in the checkbox list while duplicating, but it seems it is happening by default. I can’t think of a good reason to not create a…

Bottom line, it’s Microsoft’s fault, not Asana’s!