Removing the tasks of a template from My Tasks

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Sarah_Schoolcraft,

Unfortunately there’s no way to remove them from peoples’ My Tasks view.

The workaround most people use is to move them into the “Later” section, which can then be collapsed:

Project Template assigned tasks show up in My Tasks automatically - #5 by LenSantos

You can vote for a change in this functionality by upvoting this Product Feedback item:

Template tasks showing for users

I think Asana is missing out on the newly implemented “Save as a Template.” Basically, all it does is allow users to duplicate a project from the New Project screen instead of going to a project and clicking “Duplicate Project.” But it even strips away functionality but not allowing the user to pick and choose which criteria should be copied over. To me, saving as a template should do the following which solves pain problems with the original way of creating templates as projects and just namin…

Lastly, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my Flowsana integration provides a solution for this as part of its Dynamic Duration-Based Workflow; basically, instead of assigning the tasks in the template, you put the name of each task’s assignee in an “Assigned To” custom field, and at the appropriate time (when the task’s dependencies are completed), Flowsana automatically assigns the task to the person in the Assign To field. You can read more about it here.