This would be great! Subtasks to inherit project or simply viewing subtaks in a calendar. I want to break a task into subtasks with different due dates/priorities and be able to see them on my project calendar.
update - it is not April 2025 and this still isn’ta feature lol
Please please please revisit this! I may have to leave Asana just because of this.
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I agree - if someone doesn’t want to see subtasks in the calendar view that should be a filter option. Not hard to hide what you don’t want to see.
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Garrett here, a Group PM Lead who owns Asana’s core project management features. For those on other subtask threads, sorry for the noise! But this is something we’re actively working towards. We’re working on subtasks inheriting parent and field values first, but currently we do plan on addressing how subtasks show up in other views like Calendar as a phase of this work
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Thanks for flagging @lpb! I’ve added this request to considered 
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I wish there were a way to add specific subtasks (not all subtasks) to a project calendar.
Right now, the only option is to create another project and link those subtasks to it in order to see them on a calendar view. This workaround adds extra steps and makes project management more complicated than it needs to be.
Having the ability to choose which subtasks appear on the project calendar would:
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Make calendar views more accurate and useful
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Reduce the need for duplicate projects/workarounds
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Help teams track important milestones without cluttering the calendar with every subtask
This flexibility would give project managers much more control over how work is visualized in Asana.
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Hi @Sarah_G,
FYI I’ve merged your post with an existing request for this feature.
Quick update: we are at the point where this is very much top of mind and approaching design phase now that Allow to automatically add subtasks to project is in development!
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Happy to see that this is being worked on! However, I don’t feel that automatically adding subtasks to a project is helpful unless Asana simultaneously removes the issue of that causing a duplicate task in the project view (like you see here, where adding it to the project elevates it to task level). That’s something we can already do to add subtasks to Calendar view, it’s just that that causes a new problem of visually clogged Projects.
I think what’s being asked for here is separate from the “Allow to automatically add subtasks to a project” request that’s under development. The request tracked in this forum is asking to be able to toggle whether subtasks are shown in Calendar view or not.
@Olivia_McAuliffe, The upcoming Asana change will be implemented as you’re hoping, not fearing!
Thanks,
Larry
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Hey everyone! 
My team relies heavily on the Calendar View to organize our weekly schedules. However, we keep running into a frustrating limitation regarding subtasks.
Many of our tasks represent larger actions, and they contain multiple subtasks with their own specific due dates scattered across the week. Currently, these subtasks do not show up on the Project Calendar.
I already know the classic workaround: “Just add the subtask to the project (Tab+P) and it will appear on the calendar!”
But here is why that isn’t a good solution for us:
- It’s too much manual work. I want to create them simply as subtasks and be done with it.
- Loss of visual hierarchy (the biggest issue): If I add a subtask to the project, it appears on the calendar looking exactly like a regular parent task. It clutters the view and confuses the team.
What we really need:
A simple toggle in the Calendar View to “Show Subtasks”.
But most importantly, they need to have a clear visual hierarchy. A subtask should look different on the calendar compared to a main task—maybe smaller, slightly indented, or with a specific icon—so we can easily tell at a glance: “Oh, this is just a subtask belonging to a bigger parent task.”
This would make weekly planning so much more accurate without cluttering the calendar. Does anyone else feel like the Calendar view is missing this visual depth? Vote up if you agree! 
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FYI I’ve merged your post with an existing topic for this request.
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