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. …

@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…

Ninjana ist capable of providing numbers for Asana tasks: www.ninjana.team.

It would be great to have task id’s in a similar matter like they in JIRA for example. There is a short id for project and then increasing counter number for each created task. So if I give our project an id of PROJ and create the first task, it would have an id PROJ-1. That would be great if you c…

[image] Ville_Venalainen: is there a support in your API to do this kind of extensions ourselves? You could certainly use the API to add ID numbers to tasks - that’s how the 3rd party apps mentioned in this thread are adding IDs to tasks. You’d use either Events or Webhooks to know when a new…

Here is a quick animation to show our tool in action. You can find out more here: https://www.projectprocs.com/auto-numbering [Auto%20Number]

Reference numbers for tasks

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I am using this extension Ticket Number Generator, by OneHat - Chrome Web Store

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