A Sneak Peak of Asana’s Custom Fields (in beta)

Custom Fields is a project setting that allows you to create new attributes to sort and filter your tasks. As the name suggests, these fields are completely custom and can contain anything you like including plain text, numbers or a drop-down menu. One basic use of Custom Fields could be to create a field with a dropdown menu for priority e.g. High Priority, Medium Priority and Low Priority. Similar to before, you could then sort your project tasks by priority and hit all the high priority tasks first. The great thing about Custom Fields is that regardless of what you do or how you work, Asana now gives you the ability to track it.

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Asana online project tracking software announced the latest feature called custom fields. It started rolling out the feature in beta last July 2016 to selected customers. Apparently, the new feature is available to Asana Premium customers only. This release is another one of the company’s ways to empower teams to do great things together. Of course, better teamwork includes being able to track anything. Custom fields allow users to extend the capabilities of tasks to help teams plan, manage and track.

Track All Things with Custom Fields

Customers of Asana come from a diverse selection of organizations and industries. Consequently, tracking of work through tasks has reached a breaking point where additional information needs to be tracked with it. Custom fields are the solution to this growing requirement. Users are able to configure their application with custom fields. As a result, they are finding it easier to track software bugs, purchase orders, job applicants, editorial calendars, and more. Users can use custom fields, for example, to track the […]

Asana project tracking and team productivity software recently released a feature that is essential in project management – task dependencies. Projects are usually made up of a sequence of tasks performed by a number of resources. Among these tasks, resources and due dates, logical relationships are created such that dependencies exist between activities. In a typical project, a task can be started usually after another task has been completed, where the successor task is said to be dependent on the predecessor task getting done first. Asana simplifies the implementation of task dependencies by allowing users to mark their task as waiting on another task or tasks. This new feature is only available to Teams and Organizations on Asana Premium (paid accounts).

Task Dependencies

Asana enables teams to collaborate on projects in an organized way by allowing each team member to start working on tasks assigned to them at the time they should, but not before they can. Clear understanding and visibility are provided among team members. The PM […]