Asana have released this feature here: Coming soon! Connected work links! 🔗
However, they haven’t given us what we are asking for.
I saw better wording of the expected behavior here Back referencing/linking when a task is referenced in other tasks
However, the thread is locked so I cannot comment there either.
Continuing the discussion from Back referencing/linking when a task is referenced in other tasks:
Asana… PLEASE… Implement “back linking”. Do not put your own spin on it. Do not call it “Connected work links” or whatever the hell you think it should be called. There’s this thing called UX where software companies consider how products similar to theirs are implemented and used in other parts of the market. Backlinks are a well-known phenomenon, that you can search and find plenty of good examples of across the internet. We expect this to show up as a property on a certain part of the task, above the description, where it will be every single time. I don’t want to have to EXPAND MY 3 COMMENTS just so that I can see 1 backlink at a time! We want it as a LIST! JUST LIKE WE DESCRIBED! You did NOT implement this feature! This is hardly a solution, my company would NEVER release something like this as a solution, but maybe as a workaround. Take a look at most wiki software, something like Notion, and see how they do backlinks. Do it exactly like that, exactly as we’ve requested, and then release the feature. Otherwise, when a user goes to see “Hmm, I wonder if there are any backlinks for this, where this task has been referenced?”, they won’t think that there’s NOTHING because they looked at the properties and don’t see a backlink. ASSUMING that they’re educated in the special snowflake ways that Asana likes to develop their software differently than everyone else, they can scroll down below all the properties, below the unlimited-length description field, click “show 28 previous updates”, and then HUNT for that little blue double-arrow icon. THAT SUCKS!
As an aside, I couldn’t even find the freaking “Connected work links” page, because I was searching google for “Asana backlink”, which I swear I got an email about a few months ago when this was released. What actually came to the results were several Asana forum posts referencing linking or backlinks, because that’s what the industry calls it, backlinks. It’s not a trademarked term or method. USE IT! I mean, in the linked forum thread, @Pal_Kristensen even references project links, a feature that Asana has already done well and has similar UX/UI to what we are expecting!
I can’t believe this is “released” and the threads are locked. I can’t even believe that Asana prioritized a feature request that had 23 upvotes over ones that have thousands. I’m so freaking tired of dealing with this decaying product and cannot wait to move to a platform that listens to its users about features that would be " The easiest way to manage team projects and tasks", because despite that being the first line I read on Asana’s homepage, that is the ANTITHESIS of my experience with Asana.