Sort project list alphabetically within a Team

This sorts tasks within a project. What we need is to sort the projects under each team alphabetically in the left sidebar. It is becoming impossible to find anything!

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Hi @lpb, I donā€™t seem to be able to get started with Asana2Go at all.
Everything I try just returns the message ā€œPlease reload your Asana page tab/window in Chrome and try againā€.

Hi @Alex_Bailey1,

I canā€™t repeat the problem and havenā€™t received any other such reports

I just sent you a private message so we should continue there to avoid cluttering this thread.

Thanks,

Larry

Just for the benefit of anyone following this, Alex reported that itā€™s actually only in the Vivaldi browser that itā€™s failing; it works fine for him in Chrome itself.

Hi! PLEASE add this feature ASAP for sorting projects in the sidebar. My team navigates around 100 projects, usually around 25 at a time, and dragging projects into alphabetical order has been massively inefficient. Please say that 2020 will bring this feature to Asana! :pleading_face:

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Ok, going on two years since this request was made. PLEASE add this capability for sorting projects in the sidebar. We have 50+ projects on a team and itā€™s impossible to find themā€¦

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need it too!

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We need this so bad. Especially once a search is done.

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This is urgently needed!

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I canā€™t believe this request is still outstanding. Iā€™m sure it would be so easy for one of the developers to allow for projects to be viewed as Tiles or as a List and then save that as a view preference.
Plus also sort the list in alphabetical order.
I really donā€™t understand the Asana product development roadmap sometimes. It seems new features keep coming when there are some basics that weā€™ve been crying out for a long time.

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So what is the sort order currently? It looks totally random to me. Or maybe its simply the order the projects were created?
If thereā€™s no specific sort order by design, whatā€™s wrong with changing that to alphabetical order where it would be a lot more useful to most people than ā€˜randomā€™.
Surely it can only be a matter of one bright developer adding ORDER BY on the end of a SQL statement somewhere? :scream:

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PLEASE ALLOW for alpha sorting of projects on left column. #productfeedback #asanasorting sorting

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Hi @Lynnelle_Sanchez, welcome to the Community Forum and thanks for sharing your feedback with us!

We have an existing thread in the forum related to this topic, I have gone ahead and merged your thread with Sort project list alphabetically to avoid duplicates and centralize feedback! I hope you donā€™t mind

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Yes, sorting a project list alphabetically is the one major enhancement my office is hoping will be offered soon. With so many projects, it would be so helpful to quickly sort and not manually do so. Please continue keeping this enhancement suggestion on the table. Thanks!

100% needed. I canā€™t imagine this would be an insanely difficult feature to add.
Seems like a bit of an oversight.

Iā€™ve read elsewhere that drag and drop ordering of projects is available, but it doesnā€™t work for me. As soon as I click and drag a project name, I see an icon indicating it cannot be dropped. Alphabetical sorting, drag and drop custom sorting, grouping (like Sections for projects), even by color, anything to organize my list of 50 projects under one team. We WANT to add projects to Asana - make it useable please!

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Like everyone else, Iā€™m here to express urgency :slight_smile: thanks!

Asana is focused on new customer acquisition - this means a lot of new views, functionality, beautiful interface. This is why they keep launching new views like dashboard, goals, portfolios, which could be quite basic, but make Asana an easy sell to someone who is not using it at the moment.

Once they go public and the rate of new customer acquisition diminishes (which will take time, but will happen eventually), only then you can expect that they will fix small things and that they will focus in bringing real functionality to existing views.

Unfortunately and I have said it many times, Asana business goals are different than most people using Asana and this is where the gap is. We want more detailed functionality within features, they are focused on more features and overall experience (scope vs depth). If you take any view, any view in Asana you can make a mile long list of improvements that are needed. Some are so needed that without them the view is actually useless, but you will not know that if you are looking to buy Asana now - you look at the feature list and you can only test so much before you have to pay.

So it will be a long road for us to get what we need, frankly I have given up already and go with the flow.

Hi Ivan,

Thanks. Thatā€™s an interesting observation about the company priorities and I hadnā€™t considered that.

Personally I find it quite irritating to see new features being rolled out that I donā€™t currently need when there are some (in my opinion) easy fixes that need doing with the current and most commonly used features.

I think their drive to broaden the feature scope could be a mistake. I watched this happen with another product I really liked - their core purpose was really good but they put some much into it that new and existing users started to get lost in how to use it.

Asana do not want to be frightening off new users with over-complexity. [TAKE NOTE, ASANA PRODUCT MANAGERS!]

Iā€™m already having problems getting my staff to get their heads around using it on a daily basis. They are fearful of doing things wrong.

A really good example of features implemented without enough thought was Workloads. For some reason they implemented Workloads by projects portfolio, instead of by person in a team or organisation. Doh!

I mentioned this to them right at the start of launching this over a year ago but as far as I know theyā€™ve done nothing to address this so far and the whole thing is currently pointless.

I fully agree and this is what everyone is saying across the board, but it is a voice in the desert.

I donā€™t think that Asana does not care, I think they are committed to a different path.

However to support your comment - if you take the business tier features and you compare them to what actually works it would turn out you are paying the premium only for Rules, since Portfolios, Goals, Workload, etc. are practically useless