Hi team, We would like to have access to users for custom fields to assign the review of a task to a person without changing its owner

Adding this feature would have tremendous value. In some workflows, the task/card item could indeed have multiple people assigned to it, sometimes in different roles. In a product roadmap for exemple, one could want to add to the ‘task’ item: a product owner, a UX lead, a PM, a developer, etc etc… …

@Marie @Emily_Roman , I think this thread is a duplicate of Users in custom fields (Created by)

Thanks @Phil_Seeman , I’ve just merged them!

Very useful feature request voted up. We are big users of Asana and like the product but this seems like an easy feature request to fulfill.

The ability to select any Asana user from a custom field type: user would be incredibly useful for my company. The main task can have a task owner, but it would be good to be able to create custom columns for other roles on the task such as “Copy Writer”, “Designer” etc. This should be just left t…

Per @Kyle_Johnson ’s post about Monday.com , Airtable also has a similar option. This is a huge gap in field type for Asana.

@Emily_Roman Hi, any update on this feature? It would help us big time in tracking the general owner / creator of the task, vs who it is assigned to at the moment. This would allow for the task to switch assignees, depending on where the ball is at the moment, but to stay informed who is ultimately…

I need to see who created tasks, so that I can prioritize tasks created by my leadership.

This information is available in the task audit trail. If you want to see it in the list view, this is indeed not possible unless using custom code, which I can help you with.

I agree that this would be extremely useful. Hopefully this can be added soon.

Users in custom fields (Created by)

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