Undo converting task to project

@Kait_Hoehne and @Mark_Rosing,

I’m unaware of any automated way to do this but if your project isn’t huge, it wouldn’t take long to reverse the steps described at Task actions: create, move, duplicate, and more | Product guide • Asana Product Guide. Do the following in the project (warning: I didn’t test all of this after I wrote it!):

  1. If you still have the original task, mark it incomplete, make sure it is added (membership) of this project (to preserve original attachments and comment thread). If not, create a new task in this project (you’ll lose those comments; you’ll lose the original attachments unless you re-attach
  2. Copy project name and paste as task title
  3. Copy project description and paste as task description
  4. Note project owner and make that person Assignee of task
  5. Note project members and make them all task collaborators
    !l Set view to All tasks (not just Incomplete tasks) if you want to preserve completed tasks too
  6. One-by-one, in order, drag project tasks into subtsks of task you’re building
  7. If the project has section, click in the task pane and then for each section, type Tab+N. Copy/paste all those section names and drag and drop into order
  8. Add the task to the destination project you’d like
  9. Archive the current project you no longer need; delete it eventually if you’re sure you don’t need it.

It sounds like a lot but if only a few dozen tasks I think you could do this in five minutes.

Hope that helps,

Larry

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