# searching for task to assign a subtask- not all the tasks show up

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Tags:** tasks, subtasks\
**Created:** [24 January 2023 14:12 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306 "2023-01-24T14:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon66497857](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon66497857](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon66497857)\
**Post date:** [24 January 2023 14:12 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306/1 "2023-01-24T14:12:44Z")

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While looking for advice, the closest one I cam to was: [Move Subtask to different tasks](https://forum.asana.com/t/move-subtask-to-different-tasks/166254)

I have a search box but when I type the task name in there, the one I want is not a choice in the list at all. How is this populated? I have so many tasks that the idea of not being able to use the “convert to subtask of…” function is unreasonably slow.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/f/0/f0e0ab40f771ac88ffae258562076e224af6cdc5.png)

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**Author:** ![\_josh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/_josh/32/197853_2.png) [@\_josh](https://forum.asana.com/u/_josh)\
**Post date:** [24 January 2023 14:25 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306/2 "2023-01-24T14:25:18Z")

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Hi @anon66497857

This is a little weird. I have never encountered this, and am not able to reproduce it.

Here’s an Idea (Has worked perfectly for me across different Organziations/Asana Implementations):

- command+c/strg+c the Name from the Namefield of the Task
- now command+v/strg+v it in the field when making your task as subtask

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**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2023 07:39 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306/3 "2023-01-26T07:39:00Z")

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I have something radical that always work: go to the target task, copy the URL (using the 🔗 icon), and then go back to your task → in the search paste the link, it will offer to choose the task.

This autocomplete is hard to use if you have many tasks with similar names.

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**Author:** ![Katie\_Adams3](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Katie\_Adams3](https://forum.asana.com/u/Katie_Adams3)\
**Post date:** [8 July 2024 20:29 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306/4 "2024-07-08T20:29:21Z")

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I am having this issue today as well. The task I want to move it to isn’t populating for me.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [15 July 2024 20:29 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/searching-for-task-to-assign-a-subtask-not-all-the-tasks-show-up/316306/5 "2024-07-15T20:29:33Z")

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