This is a common complaint, and Asana has acknowledged that the dependency feature is not yet fully mature. We don’t know if and when it appears on their roadmap, but it’s definitely on their radar.
Here are some similar threads:
The default categories are Today / Upcoming / Later & New Tasks. Why not be able to create a section for ourselves which is - Pending - or Waiting on. This is for the several items / decision from different projects.
So 2 ideas come to mind - not sure which one or even if both are feasible:
Have the ability to create our own category under My Task
Have ASANA add a Pending Category to My Task - which I presume is the easiest options
The feature where you can mark tasks waiting on another task…
I love the idea of task dependencies, but they’re not fully functional as is.
If I have a task (Eat dinner) waiting on two sub-tasks (go shopping, cook dinner), “Eat Dinner” should be grayed out or otherwise uncheckable (is that a word? No? Oh.) until I’ve done the necessary subtasks.
As is, I can go in and complete “Eat dinner” without having shopped or cooked. Without sub-tasks viewable in tree-view by default (ooh! do that!), it could be easy to skip an important step and check something of…
I would like to have Waiting On added to Advanced Search so a search could be conducted on all of my tasks that I am Waiting On somebody and all tasks of mine that somebody is waiting on me. Without this search the feature is limited.
One of the main reasons we went to Asana Premium was to use the dependency feature. Our tasks are individual campaigns and each sub-task is something that needs to get done for that campaign. The sub-tasks are setup to be dependent on other sub-tasks. However, when the first task completes, the 2nd user isn’t notified. How do I change this??
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