In many cases a task may not have a specific due date but it has a general priority. This is actually quite common in many project management systems, assigning a “high”, “medium”, or “low” priority. Asana is strange (IMHO) in that they consider “priority” settings to be: “today”, “upcoming”, and …

Hi @Jeff_Crist , For your original idea of using the Today, Upcoming and Later sections, would a keyboard shortcut that allows you to mark tasks with these categories work? You can do this anywhere you can select a task or from within the task, not just in My Tasks. Keyboard shortcuts for marking t…

Are you a Windows shop or Mac? If you are a Windows User, I have a CSV to PDF converter that could be easily modified to create a hard copy report. You would probably need to use custom fields I would think. The converter is being fixed right now because the layout of the CSV file was changed rec…

We were really hoping to be able to see by user and by project an online lisk of tasks sorted by high/medium/low priority. I can’t count how many hours I spent testing collaboration solutions and Asana had the best price/feature ratio but this shortcoming is really a thorn in my side.

I think we are going to have to go ahead and use tags and the instruct the users to mark all the tasks with “high” tag as “today” priority, “medium” as “upcoming” and “low” and “later” kind of a clunky solution but there appears to be no other alternative from an online viewing standpoint. I could …

Hi @Jeff_Crist , the easiest solution would be to add your priorities as custom fields. That way you can just click the field description and it will sort it by that custom field. So, for example, you could add the field ‘Priority’ to the project you want to sort. Once you added priorities for all t…

Im with @Tom_Suberg on this one. Create a custom field called “Priority.” Select the “Drop-down” option and name your priorities. I use a 1-5, but name them the way you want them. Next, create an advanced search that will bring in all of the tasks, in all of the teams, and all of the projects that y…

If you want to be really fancy, you could even divide ‘Priority’ into ‘Urgency’ and ‘Importance’. Urgency describes how time sensitive the issue is and importance depicts, well, how important it is overall.

Asana could do this automatically for us. Asana could place a task under the section Today automatically if a task is for today, under the section upcoming if a task is within the next 1 week? 2 weeks? (perhaps this rule could be optional for us to set) and so on. I don’t see the point of sorting so…

My original advice to Jeff_Crist was to help out with quickly moving tasks between the My Tasks categories by giving him keyboard shortcuts and pointing out multi-select. He was trying to integrate priority into his tasks as well as a view or report that would help him sort it all out. That was my i…

Hi @Tom_Suberg I did that but clicking the “Priority” header on a custom report does not sort the tasks by priority.

Hi, I realised I was trying to sort by priorities in a report, but that’s not possible, I must sort in a list view project…

Strategy for Sorting Tasks By Priority? By Project and By User?

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lpb 3 March 2020 15:23 16

@Patrick_Cardin,

Maybe this helps:

Larry

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Strategy for Sorting Tasks By Priority? By Project and By User?

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