Switching from Boards to List View (and vice versa)

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@Bastien_Siebman and @Hendrik, In Android Beta you can now see a Board project as a List or Board, but you cannot see a List project as a Board (yet). This is consistent with the new “model” being the same as the old Board model.

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And here the two sections are collapsed, and also shown is the available overflow menu for sections:

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Larry

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Also would appreciate this function. A project was originally created as a board, but would function better as a list. The ability to simply “switch over” would be ideal.

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There are techniques to switch from one to another if needed, this is just not instant.

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Yes. Obviously.

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Would such a technique be to create a new project as list and then manually re-enter all items from the board based view to the list? Cause, that is what I am considering as a remedy.

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The method is:

  • create a new empty project with a list layout
  • use an advanced search to search for tasks in the board project
  • multi-select the search results and multi-home tasks into the list project
  • look at the list project, make sure everything looks good
  • multi-select again and remove the board project from the tasks
  • the board project should now be empty

You might want to do this with several steps, one step per column

Does it make sense?

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Bastien!!!, This makes perfect sense. I will give it a spin when I get back to my home office.

/ Ed

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@Bastien_Siebman - how do we do the reverse - take a list project and make it a board??? The last I see from Asana is a few years ago and it said they were actively working on it. I can’t find it. Any update from Asana Developers?

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Doh- I dug in a little more and see that asana is saying the feature will be out in the next couple months.

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You use exactly the same technique, create the board project, and multi-home tasks into it.

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Any update on this feature? (ability to switch a project from boards to list view - and vice versa?

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This feature will come once the migration to the new data model started/is done. See Reminder about two big upcoming API changes (String IDs and new sections) - #10 by Joe_Trollo

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@Marie - are you able to give us an idea of when that might happen? That is HUGE issue I have and it would solve so many problems for me and my team.

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Hi @Kari_Stober,

Just like we do for all updates, this new feature will be rolled out gradually! We’re hoping to start deploying it in the next couple of weeks; but don’t worry, I’ll update this thread as soon as we start deploying it, so you’ll automatically get notified!

Hope this helps!

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I can confirm that the rollout is happening. I am a part of a few asana orgs and the one org has the feature. I thought I was seeing things which lead me down the rabbit hole; ending in this thread.

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Here’s a little more information courtesy of a developer-focused post:

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Thanks @Phil_Seeman :wink:

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Thanks Phil, does this mean once a workspace is migrated I can switch between list and board or does this feature to be released in a next step?

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I believe that’s correct - once you’re migrated, you should be able to switch. However, @Joe_Trollo, are you able to confirm if that’s the case?

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Yes, that’s correct—the rollout of the “boards to lists” UI feature is aligned with the migration.

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