UI Navigation change: Only 7 Team Members displayed in the left sidebar

The team list I can see (under EDIT TEAM SETTINGS).
BUT What I seem to have lost is the ability to see a Team Members List of Tasks… other than the first 7 members (if which I am one). MEANING I can see that member #8 (Andre) is on the team, but I can’t see what he’s working on. I used to be able to click on anyone - to see their list.

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Yes, you’re correct @James_Carl! This is due to the recent UI changes we’ve made. I’d recommend to add this feedback to Sidebar, Header, and Team UI Update :slight_smile:

Hi @Wally_Montpetit, the fact you can’t access all team members list from the left sidebar is due to a recent UI change (How to Navigate Asana | Product Guide • Asana Product Guide). I’ve moved your post to the #productfeedback so other community members can also add their comment. In the meantime, if you wish to access your colleagues “My Tasks”, you can do so by searching their name via the Search bar.

I didn’t think to try via searching.
That works great.
THANKS

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I know Asana is always looking to improve and I appreciate that. However, it seems we are no longer able to quickly expand the team member list from the sidepane where we previously clicked the “+” sign to expand a list of our team. From the expanded menu, you were previously able to click a team member and go directly to the tasks they had. I don’t see a fast way of seeing all of our members and then going to their tasks.

Is there a different way to reach this now? My operations manager called me griping about how I must have “changed something” and messed up his work pane. I feel like this must have been removed or moved by Asana. I explained he could search by name or go to the settings > member directory, but he complained this is a “huge pita and ridiculous” so that’s why I’m here to ask about it. Can we leave this feature on somehow?

I didn’t see any other topics about this. Thank you!

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Hi @Jack_Ward! Sorry for the trouble here, this is part of some recent UI changes we’ve made (you can learn more about this in this handy article: How to Navigate Asana | Product Guide • Asana Product Guide). Following this update, here is the quickest way to access your Team members list:

  • In your left sidebar, click on the Team name
  • At the top of your screen, click on any of your colleagues profile pictures. s

Hope this helps!

Hi - currently, I can only see 7 team members in the side panel for my team. I’d like to see the profiles of all 11 team members on the left hand side - is there a way to expand the view? The only option to see other team members currently is find them in the search bar.

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Hey @Darren_DeCoursey, I’ve given a workaround on this thread if you want to have a look at it! UI Navigation change: Only 7 Team Members displayed in the left sidebar - #11 by Marie.

If that’s ok, I’m just going to merge your feedback with the thread above to avoid having too many duplicates! :slight_smile:

I have been using ASANA for more than 2 years.

I’m suddenly not able to see all members on my Team to view or assign tasks, I’m currently only able to see max of 7 members as icons.

Submitted a ticket week ago and no reply. Can anyone help?

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Yes! This! I am having the same issue with latest UI changes. I keep clicking in the wrong spot for My Tasks but am slowly re-training myself to the new location. But not being able to expand our list of team members is a huge pain. We only have 11 team members but the ones I see are the ones I use least frequently.

My current workaround is to search for the 4 teammates that I work with most frequently and pin them as “favorites” using the star icon. This works, but I would really love to see a list of all team members like before. I understand that this can be difficult with really large teams but a team of 11 should be fairly easy to display.

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Thank you for the workaround, that definitely helps to locate team members by name.

Have you also approached ASANA regarding this issue through a support ticket? I’m sure others might be feeling the pain as well.

Thanks again.

Hi
Another topic is already opened on that subject with several posts from Asana team:
https://forum.asana.com/t/ui-navigation-change-only-7-team-members-displayed-in-the-left-sidebar/

Thanks for flagging this @Julien_RENAUD, I’ve just merged this post with https://forum.asana.com/t/ui-navigation-change-only-7-team-members-displayed-in-the-left-sidebar/ 2 :wink:

I ditto this change by Asana is a BIG pain.

As a manager of a team I would like to simply see my team members and tasks associated with them at a minimum. This change by Asana convolutes this simple need.

This change is unnecessary and a design flaw that is not considering the ease of managing teams, team members, and their tasks. Which should be fundamental to your platform.

I hope you reconsider this change or provide a user configurable dashboard to manage this in a more simplified way for manager of teams and tasks.

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Ummm… Nope. That just brings up the Team Settings dialog. You can click on the team members until your mouse breaks & nothing happens.

Thanks to whoever posted the tip about searching for the team member’s name!! That’s a little primitive, but it does work.

Given that, why even bother putting the first 7 in the sidebar? Better question: If we can only “see” 7, how can I pick which particular 7 team members show up there?

Sorry if these have been answered elsewhere; we’re new here & still trying to learn the workflow.

Thank you.

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Apparently we can’t edit our posts, so I apologize for the double-tap.

On that link above, the instructions say:

To expand a team to see its members and projects in your sidebar, click on the caret next to the team name. To invite more teammates or create new projects, just click the + button.

That statement doesn’t match the actions on the sidebar. Just FYI so you can clean up your knowledgebase (I hope).

Here’s another chatroom top tip: Can you add a “[Preview]” button in addition to [Reply] and [Cancel] so we can check our posts before we commit them? Especially if we can’t Edit them. Thanks.

Thanks for following up @Jim_Long.

We’re currently in the process of updating our Guide articles to match up the recent UI changes, so sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.

As for editing your post in the community, you should be able to click on the “3 dots” menu below your post to expand the option menu. From there the little “pen” icon should allow you to edit your post!

Hope this helps!

As you can see, your UI presents differently to me than it does to you.

In these OOPS days of reusable code, that seems strange and a little frightening. Not interested in the ‘why’, just pointing out that inconsistency so your coders can fix it.

PS my team likes Asana so far, but they don’t really use it much yet.

Not sure why, but it seems if I select your post with nothing but words & click [Reply], it blockquotes just your text, but when I did that & included your graphic, it blockquoted it & quoted it all again redundantly. Strange…

PS: Sorry, it dawned on my that I’d clicked the 3 dots on your post, not mine. Still, here’s what I get clicking the 3 dots on my own post:
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So I guess I’ll {select, copy, delete, edit in Notepad, paste} if I need to edit a post. Thanks.

Edited by the above method to add:
Yes, that works. It’s labor-intensive, which would serve to keep people from correcting themselves, but it works.

Editing a post is only available after you have been quite active in the community (I don’t know the threshold exactly, this is a Discourse configuration, maybe @Marie can find out ). This is not a bug :+1:

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