Search text within a task

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Is there any way to search for copy within a task? I have a Candidate tracking project with several candidates, each candidate is a task, and I am looking for the candidates with writing experience. I searched for word “writing” and it did return several tasks in the results, I am assuming those tasks have the word “writing” in them, but it did not highlight that word within the task, so it’s not much help. Each of those tasks has all of my notes about that candidate interview, so the word “writing” is buried in there somewhere and I have to go searching for it. Is there not a way to search the text within a task to find a specific word? For example, when I search for a word in OneNote, it will show me the pages and show me the word highlighted on those pages.

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Welcome, @Jordan_Watkins,

Asana doesn’t offer this functionality. What I do is:

  1. Advanced search for the word you’re looking for (as you do)
  2. In search results, open the task detail pane of the first result task
  3. Use the browser search (usually Cmd/Ctrl+F) to highlight the text you’re looking for.

Hope that helps,

Larry

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I do something similar to @lpb. I use the desktop app, so immediate browser search is unavailable. So from a task I generate the task-link weblink, and then manually open that in the browser. So text search is a huge pain.

The Asana model appears to be that descriptions are short, so who needs search. But for my usage, in some cases it is convenient to put my task documentation directly into the description field. I’ll put the “description” portion at the top, and then use headers or what not to organize the rest of my content. So like the OP, I’m putting actual content in the description, and want to be able to search over it.

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I have added this topic to the Product Feedback forum so that this can be voted on. At the current moment, all the advanced search does is pull results that have the keywords you are searching for. It would be nice if I could search for and highlight the text that is in the description of a task. Especially because a lot of our tasks are SOPs that are often accessed by my team as a reference.

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I agree. It would be ideal to have a Cmd/Ctrl+F feature within a task. Ours often have a lot of text. They become documents in their own right, because we document entire roadmap items in them.