When a task is created, is there a reference number in the background that we can not see? We create hundreds of them and it would make life so much easier if I could look them up by an auto populated number. The task line line numbers are nice but the number does not stay if you move the task’s ord…

At iDO (and with the help of Astogi ), we have created something that might help with this feature request. It is a simple bot that you can invite to any project (as a guest). It will automatically rename the tasks you create, adding a unique iD. The numbering is based on the project name initials. …

Hi Erik, I try using the Task ID on the search bar, and it’s actually display the task. Did you try it recently?

Yep - Our IT team is ditching Asana purely because of this. My product team would like to stick with Asana but this lack of a simple ID number makes it hard.

Hi Tim, yes it is unfortunate but also consistent with their business practice. Some higher up at Asana decided “No ID numbers for you!” and it will never materialize. They will keep losing clients this way (even though a simple fix) but keep gaining more with their predatory sales techniques on al…

Hi Phan, Yes, it shows up in the search dropdwon, but not if you enter it in search and enter, it says No Results. But the whole point of this string is that they do not have it the ID number in the actual task. It is in the URL. Such a simple thing that they can’t get through their heads.

I have changed the category to Product Feedback so we can start voting to have this implemented! So please VOTE to have tasks IDs in the actual task. Thanks!

@Erik_Graham There’s actually already one with a pretty large vote count: [image] Feature Request: Task Numbering Product Feedback I would like to request a feature that will allow the user to add a custom field for tasks that will auto-populate a unique number (ID). The …

JIRA is doing a heck of a job in this regard. We use JIRA at my day job. JIRA requires a project code at the time of creating a project. All tickets are create with sequence number starting with 1. Let us say I gave my project Harwant Pannu a project code / initials of HP and ticket numbers HP-1, HP…

Hi Harwant, What are you using Asana for if you have Jira? Thanks, Erik

Kicking the can here, this would be a great feature to see in Asana, especially given the introduction of Forms that can be used to take requests from internal or external sources (e.g. clients). ClickUp has made a point to point out their task IDs for tracking. I don’t think it’s a great implementa…

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@Erik_Graham There’s actually already one with a pretty large vote count:

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