I have a user in my org who would like to be able to see a list of tasks they’ve been tagged in. I’ve tried to do an advanced search and it hasn’t really returned the data I need. I’m inputting the name of the person in the “has tags” field but it doesn’t really give me what I want. Is this search even possible?
Hi @Vai_Cheung
Do you mean @ mentions? If so, I don’t think there’s a specific search for that. However, whenever a person is @ mentioned in a task, they become a collaborator. The nearest thing I can think of is to search for all tasks followed by that individual - Followed By is one of the fields in advanced search.
The alternative is to create an actual tag for each team member, which can be attached to any task - as long as you don’t have hundreds, of course!
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Hi @Mark_Hudson, yes I do mean @mentions. Thanks for this. Useful. I’d forgotten that @mentions are added as collaborators so I think this might be sufficient. Creating an actual tag for each member is not really a viable option as we do have about 100 users. Thanks again for your response.
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There is an option to see tasks that have been “Commented on by” (screenshot below) a certain teammate, but as @Mark_Hudson mentioned, there is not an option to filter by tasks where a certain teammate is commented to.
We’ll capture this as a feature request for the product team, and any other information you can share about how this would be helpful for your team would be great to include. Thanks for sharing!
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I want to find the list of task where a particular Asana User is @mentioned in Comment or Description of a task.
I found option to list the task “Commented on By” via advance search : +Add Filter → People → Commented on by
Which give the list who has commented on particular task, which is itself a great feature.
But i need, the list of task, where Asana Organization/Workspace/Team Member/User/Guest has been Mentioned via @mention tag.
Is there any feature like this in Asana ? or any work around for this ? This would be great help for me and my organization.
Thank you
Amit
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No you can’t (yet)
There’s a similar thread here, @ARaj:
Thanks for flagging this @Mark_Hudson! I’ve gone ahead and merged this thread with Search for @mentions in Asana
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Any updates on when we might be able to search for @mentions in Asana?
Katie
Not at the moment @Katie_Reynolds; as far as I’m aware, this isn’t in our near-term plan, but certainly something we will consider in the future!
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Thanks for the reply Marie. With things falling down the Inbox quickly it would be great to have a work around to make sure you are seeing your @ mentions. Seems like we are missing communications.
Katie
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Hi Marie! Is there any update on this request? Thanks!
Just adding to this: Ability to see comments in which one is mentioned seems like a nearly critical requirement. How do I keep track of what folks are asking of me in Asana? Yep, major lacuna, @Asana!
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This hasn’t been solved. It goes beyond people…
If you @ mention_task, how can I search to see everywhere this task is mentioned?
So if I’m taking meeting minutes in Asana for a contact and they reference 3 different tasks in 3 different projects… how can I reference that so that later I can search to see everywhere a specific task was mentioned?
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Would love to see an update on this @Marie or anyone else on the Asana team. Our team and all users/subscribers would really benefit if we could see when comments are tagging someone and if they are left without any response. This has become a bit of a problem and if we can isolate or surface the numerous times we’ve tried to ping someone for clarity and we experienced radio silence, that’s a great “paper trail” that we can literally see on any other platform we use besides Asana… 
Hi @Peter_Kim, I’m afraid I don’t have an update on this topic at the moment; but I’ve gone ahead and sent a note to our team to make sure this is considered for our next search update!
I would als see a search function to get all tasks where I have mentioned someone in order to know if there has been progress 
Me too. I’ve been told i have been mentioned but cant see where or on what task or when. its really frustrating!
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Monday.com has a quick search query that’s “Things i was mentioned in and didn’t reply” and it was critical for us to make sure we didn’t miss anything. This is a huge gap for us on this product, hope that use case helps! Would LOVE to see this implemented in asana.
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