# Subtasks and the "My Tasks" section: Show me the project! **URL:** \ **Category:** Asana In Practice\ **Tags:** my-tasks, productivity, tags, tasks, subtasks\ **Created:** [18 January 2017 15:09 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216 "2017-01-18T15:09:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Anderson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/lucas_anderson/32/295_2.png) [@Lucas\_Anderson](https://forum.asana.com/u/Lucas_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [18 January 2017 15:09 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/1 "2017-01-18T15:09:57Z")
I am the project manager/producer for a small creative agency that has recently fully embraced Asana. We’re quickly adjusting our workflows without any hiccups…until now. Our work tends to have many deliverables that multiple members of the team collaborate on. For the most efficient workflow, we’ve found that Tasks with well built out subtasks works the best for file sharing/version control, conversations, and the ability to spread out deadlines and assignees within a single task. However, when you start to build up multiple projects that have multiple deliverables with similar workflows–for instance, a copy writer may be assigned a “copy draft” as a subtask for different tasks across different projects–it starts to get really complicated and unclear in your “My Tasks” section which project you are working on. For subtasks, the project tag doesn’t show up, just the parent task in gray. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/1X/b95989722a93a4f05b998416f7853c0a6ada77e4.png) Ideal solution: Why isn’t that there?! Other solutions: 1. **Sorting “My Tasks” by project.** - This works for the most part, but because we are a deadline driven team, having due date sorting is ideal, and you lose the customization capabilities that might allow you to arrange it by due date or your own priority. 2. **Naming Conventions** - I’ve experimented with naming conventions of the parent tasks to make it more explicit, but it feels like a hack, and a not very elegant solution for an overall elegant tool. 3. **Deal with it** - This is our current best fix, as it is fairly easy to click on a task to see more details and get the full picture. But again…not very elegant. 4. ??? Would love anybody’s thoughts on possible work-arounds using tagging or custom fields… or something else? Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_Cavanaugh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/todd_cavanaugh/32/173055_2.png) [@Todd\_Cavanaugh](https://forum.asana.com/u/Todd_Cavanaugh)\ **Post date:** [18 January 2017 17:00 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/2 "2017-01-18T17:00:57Z")
Hi @Lucas_Anderson! I agree with you that this isn’t ideal and that it would be better for Asana to include the Project in the task pane. I don’t think there’s a better solution than what you named, basically sorting by project when you need to but otherwise clicking on it to get more details and prioritizing as you wish. If you were creating content via forms, there’s a more robust way you could create your tasks via Zapier that would allow you to include the project name in the Task description automatically. This is one of many reasons I recommend using subtasks as little as possible unless using them as part of a “Task Template.” I discuss in more detail in the [Asana Training Masterclass](https://projectmanagementpros.com/masterclass/ "Asana Training Masterclass"), but the end result is it’s often better to push the hierarchy one level higher to using Section Headings and Tasks when possible. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Anderson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/lucas_anderson/32/295_2.png) [@Lucas\_Anderson](https://forum.asana.com/u/Lucas_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [19 January 2017 16:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/3 "2017-01-19T16:55:16Z")
Todd, Thanks for the response. Unfortunately with our use case, and Asana’s somewhat weak file management capabilities, moving up a level higher with Section Headings isn’t really possible. I guess we’ll just wait until Subtasks and/or the Files tab are beefed up! ---
**Author:** ![Alexis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/alexis/32/155_2.png) [@Alexis](https://forum.asana.com/u/Alexis)\ **Post date:** [20 January 2017 13:08 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/4 "2017-01-20T13:08:55Z")
Hi @Lucas_Anderson - Glad your team is enjoying working with Asana. Also, thanks for sharing this feedback! I’ve shared it with my team. I do think that you’re doing the right thing with your workarounds. Naming conventions have worked very well for us here. In addition, when I am in My Tasks, I tend not to look at the tasks at face value. Instead, I find it helpful to click into each task so the right window pops up and I’m able to see context (where the subtask came from, etc.). A little habit that you may find useful. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Skjoldager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/peter_skjoldager/32/232_2.png) [@Peter\_Skjoldager](https://forum.asana.com/u/Peter_Skjoldager)\ **Post date:** [23 February 2017 20:39 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/5 "2017-02-23T20:39:39Z")
I just wanted to say that i agree with the OP. It seems like it should be easy to make the project name appear more consistently and in full (not truncated). So the full “line” maybe even all the way from the “team” level is shown all the way to the subtask. ---
**Author:** ![Ramon\_Prats](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ramon_prats/32/7587_2.png) [@Ramon\_Prats](https://forum.asana.com/u/Ramon_Prats)\ **Post date:** [13 September 2017 15:38 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/6 "2017-09-13T15:38:34Z")
Same thought from our company. We have with working with Asana with our team for a while, and we would love to have the project tag appearing in the subtasks, that are shown as No Project in the My Tasks list. This feature would make much more easy organizing pending work, because at this moment the subtasks are quite confusing and difficult to follow. Thanx a lot! ---
**Author:** ![Alexis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/alexis/32/155_2.png) [@Alexis](https://forum.asana.com/u/Alexis)\ **Post date:** [13 September 2017 23:28 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/7 "2017-09-13T23:28:06Z")
@Ramon_Prats if you’re excited about seeing a new feature I recommend that you vote for an existing suggestion in the product feedback category or create a new thread 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alexis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/alexis/32/155_2.png) [@Alexis](https://forum.asana.com/u/Alexis)\ **Post date:** [3 November 2017 16:49 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/8 "2017-11-03T16:49:26Z")
2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Feature request: show subtasks in lists](https://forum.asana.com/t/feature-request-show-subtasks-in-lists/1129) ---
**Author:** ![SW1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@SW1](https://forum.asana.com/u/SW1)\ **Post date:** [5 February 2018 05:39 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/9 "2018-02-05T05:39:43Z")
We’re a similar style agency and face the same issues - each team member needs to be able to view their tasks/subtasks by due date for their individual workload. Please add this feature! ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Gesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/christian_gesell/32/14017_2.png) [@Christian\_Gesell](https://forum.asana.com/u/Christian_Gesell)\ **Post date:** [8 February 2018 11:29 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/10 "2018-02-08T11:29:53Z")
Hi folks, this issue goes deeper than just displaying the subtask in the search results resp. the ‘My tasks’ list. I am using Harvest for time tracking and if I want to log time to a subtask Harvest does not recognize the subtask being allocated to the project the parent task is assigned to. Therefore Harvest suggests to create a new project or manually select one. This isn’t just unhandy, it causes mistakes as I am assuming the project is already there and I just hit the timer clocking to the wrong project. I am considering this a mistake in the concept of the data model, not just a UI glitch when displaying search results. this issue shouldn’t be up for a vote in the community — please have your dev team get to the bottom of this issue and fix/improve it. Technically I have hundreds of unallocated tasks sitting in my projects that only when viewed in the right perspective are visible as subtasks of a project. Moving my subtasks up a level as a workaround is not an option!! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Breunsbach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jeff_breunsbach/32/4275_2.png) [@Jeff\_Breunsbach](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jeff_Breunsbach)\ **Post date:** [8 February 2018 15:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/11 "2018-02-08T15:26:47Z")
We continue to have the same problem. Our organization within a project has become a mess because employees are pulling sub-tasks out of the task into the main project and it has caused confusion. We need the sub-task to inherit the main task/project information. ---
**Author:** ![Misha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/misha/32/12847_2.png) [@Misha](https://forum.asana.com/u/Misha)\ **Post date:** [8 February 2018 15:42 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/12 "2018-02-08T15:42:43Z")
Chiming in on this thread. Our organization has recently fully embraced Asana use. However, many of my tasks in a project need to be subtasks, because otherwise they will clutter up the main project area. When I look at “My Tasks,” most of my tasks appear without a project because the subtask is not inheriting the project. This is unmanageable and doesn’t make design sense. So far I am finding it’s a net negative to my productivity and focus because I cannot view my task list properly by project due to the subtask issue. Please make it a development priority that subtasks inherit the main project. The nesting of tasks and subtasks in Asana is supposed to be a feature, not cause a bug. Thank you for your consideration. ---
**Author:** ![Yvette\_Fulton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/yvette_fulton/32/4465_2.png) [@Yvette\_Fulton](https://forum.asana.com/u/Yvette_Fulton)\ **Post date:** [9 March 2018 13:42 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/13 "2018-03-09T13:42:37Z")
Just found a solution for this in another post - albeit an imperfect one, as you have to remember to do it for each subtask. Apparently the subtasks don’t inherit projects, tags etc from their parent. Asana say they are working on a solution for this problem but in the meantime you can manually add the subtask to the Project. You can do this by clicking Add to Project in the subtask pane, or by CTRL+P while the subtask is open. It can be done when creating the task or retrospectively. ---
**Author:** ![Alexis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/alexis/32/155_2.png) [@Alexis](https://forum.asana.com/u/Alexis)\ **Post date:** [3 April 2018 17:18 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/14 "2018-04-03T17:18:17Z")
A post was merged into an existing topic: [Feature request: show subtasks in lists](https://forum.asana.com/t/feature-request-show-subtasks-in-lists/1129) ---
**Author:** ![Shannon\_Guilford](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/shannon_guilford/32/28612_2.png) [@Shannon\_Guilford](https://forum.asana.com/u/Shannon_Guilford)\ **Post date:** [11 September 2018 18:20 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/15 "2018-09-11T18:20:28Z")
Hi I am a very new user trying to create some examples to implement with my team - what do you mean by “naming conventions”? What does this look like in Asana? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Maxwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/justin_maxwell/32/18617_2.png) [@Justin\_Maxwell](https://forum.asana.com/u/Justin_Maxwell)\ **Post date:** [9 January 2019 17:03 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/16 "2019-01-09T17:03:04Z")
I’m not sure the pain and importance of this is being recognised. Here are some threads that could perhaps be merged here (I’m sure there are more, these just came up immediately): > [@Show project on subtask in 'My tasks' view](https://forum.asana.com/t/show-project-on-subtask-in-my-tasks-view/6504): > > When subtasks are assigned to a person and they show up in the ‘My tasks’ view, there is no project ‘tag’ visible on that subtask. There is a reference to the parent task, but therefore I have to look up the parent task first and check to which project that task belongs. It would be more efficiently to directly show the project tag on each subtask. > [@Add subtasks to the same project as the main task](https://forum.asana.com/t/add-subtasks-to-the-same-project-as-the-main-task/38432): > > Can you please make it possible that subtasks of a tasks in a project are also part of that project and thus get the same color as the main task? This would make things visually much clearer in the calendar. Thanks. > [@Allow to automatically add subtasks to project](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-to-automatically-add-subtasks-to-project/3018/2): > > Hi @Erin_Hommeland — Thanks for the feedback. As an immediate solution, I’d recommend that you create an Advanced Search view that focuses upon both tasks & subtasks. You can then view this in a calendar view to see all levels of tasks in one spot. slight_smile You can then favorite the search view (via the star) to pin it to your left pane and have it update automatically. Here’s more info on Advanced Search — [Using Search & Advanced Search in Asana | Product guide • Asana Product Guide](https://asana.com/guide/help/fundamentals/search) > [@My Tasks: Categorize subtasks under their project, not "No Project"](https://forum.asana.com/t/my-tasks-categorize-subtasks-under-their-project-not-no-project/9654): > > Hi! I love the My Tasks view, but find it odd that in the filter-by-project view, subtasks to any tasks in a project show under “No Project”. They should show under their project they are a part of. There should also be an option to filter by: Projects Subtasks only > [@Subtasks and the "My Tasks" section: Show me the project!](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216): > > I am the project manager/producer for a small creative agency that has recently fully embraced Asana. We’re quickly adjusting our workflows without any hiccups…until now. Our work tends to have many deliverables that multiple members of the team collaborate on. For the most efficient workflow, we’ve found that Tasks with well built out subtasks works the best for file sharing/version control, conversations, and the ability to spread out deadlines and assignees within a single task. However, wh… > [@in My Tasks, always show Project Name, even for subtasks](https://forum.asana.com/t/feature-request-in-my-tasks-always-show-project-name-even-for-subtasks/1347): > > Hi, In the My Tasks view, it would be great to display the Project “bubble” (looks like a tag bubble) for subtasks, the same way it is displayed for tasks. More generally, we would be happy to pay to have the option to customize our user experience with such features. What do you think ? Thanks for reading, Rupert > [@Show the Project name next to subtasks in task list](https://forum.asana.com/t/show-the-project-name-next-to-subtasks-in-task-list/25081): > > I start my day by reviewing my daily task list, normally organized by due date and/or priority. A vital part of the “my tasks” view is seeing which project/client is associated with each task. However, the associated project does not appear next to subtasks. Why is that, Asana? Throughout the day as I create tasks and assign them to myself, I also go back through those tasks to add due dates, project names and details when I see them appear in my task list. Now every day, I keep thinking that I… > [@Bug? Help? Subtasks are getting bumped to "No Project"](https://forum.asana.com/t/bug-help-subtasks-are-getting-bumped-to-no-project/7389): > > I’m using Asana in concert with Instagantt. This new problem just started showing up. I noticed that many Project X subtasks were showing up in the No Project section of My Tasks in Asana. I dragged and dropped them back into Project X, where they were originally, but when I do, they are bumped out of their parent task in Instagantt. When I use Instagantt to place the subtasks back inside their parent, they get bumped back in to No Project in Asana. Any ideas? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Cecil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/christopher_cecil/32/31197_2.png) [@Christopher\_Cecil](https://forum.asana.com/u/Christopher_Cecil)\ **Post date:** [19 March 2019 15:58 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/17 "2019-03-19T15:58:30Z")
We have the same issue. We use subtasks on nearly all of our tasks and have them assigned to various team members with due dates. We need to be able to see which project they are associated with in the My Tasks section. It seems very strange to me that they are disassociated with a project when they are literally called ‘subtask’ of a project task. ---
**Author:** ![jsun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jsun/32/39512_2.png) [@jsun](https://forum.asana.com/u/jsun)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2019 16:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/18 "2019-05-22T16:45:31Z")
This seems like a rather trivial thing that should be implemented right away. I can’t see any reason to not tag subtasks with the parent project. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Vannette](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/claire_vannette/32/38434_2.png) [@Claire\_Vannette](https://forum.asana.com/u/Claire_Vannette)\ **Post date:** [5 August 2019 22:20 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/19 "2019-08-05T22:20:49Z")
The problem with adding the project to the subtask is that it makes the subtask appear in the list view as though it were a top-level task. A subtask should appear on a collapsible list under its parent task. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi\_Hen\_UziMedia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/uzi_hen_uzimedia/32/50779_2.png) [@Uzi\_Hen\_UziMedia](https://forum.asana.com/u/Uzi_Hen_UziMedia)\ **Post date:** [3 March 2020 22:01 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216/20 "2020-03-03T22:01:28Z")
Also asking that the project name! will be shown also in subtasks [Next page](https://forum.asana.com/t/subtasks-and-the-my-tasks-section-show-me-the-project/216.md?page=2)