Variables in templates for Project roles is a great feature when using a template to (manually) create a project, where we get this handy page during the project creation steps:
I am hoping this project roles selection popup will get built into other surfaces such as when converting a task into a project, either by:
Convert to > Project action from the task details overflow ...
Selecting Project Roles would be great to be included within this dialogue box which acts as a mini-project-creation process:
(Being able to add project to a Portfolio would also be useful in this dialogue box, similar to the relative rule action dialogue box below)
Rule using the āCreate new > Project from taskā action (example below)
It would be great if the assign project roles page that we see during the project creation stage (first screenshot above) would appear as a popup once such a rule is triggered:
The alternative solution to both the above would be to simply be able to Fill project roles after project creation perhaps from the Overview tab, as @paulminors has suggested
However, I think having the option to fill out project roles during the task-to-project conversion stage would make sure the project gets setup immediately as intended, without blank assignees.
Thanks Richard for pointing that out.
Yes, we identified the same pain recently.
Really a shame that the automation is downgrading that (great) feature.
Yeahā¦ we had been trying to use a project realized we needed to break out 50 child tasks into new projects in a portfolio and were shocked to find we couldnt pick roles, or set roles after dev sooo painful
+1 (+1000 if I could!)
We have built a fairly standardized workflow for most LOB (line of business) customer projects, so we have a manageable # of templates with a āRolesā global CF for this exact same purpose, and was very disappointed when I reviewed the āProject Rolesā feature, that thereās no way to actually utilize that to automatically assign/map to tasks (each with an assigned āroleā per the Global CF) either at project creation from template or even post creationā¦
For example, we have an āincoming projectsā intake form and project for a pipeline lookahead and to start proactively assigning resources.
We then would love to let a rule, as @Richard_Sather suggested, Create new > Project from task, and utilize these assignments in the project CFās to be mapped to the āTemplate Project Rolesā which, in turn would auto-assign the tasks to the appropriate tasks, as configured:
This would reduce an incredible amount of time and automate our resourcing assignments.
I do love and continue to leverage & promote Asana as much as I can across the organization, however IMHO this is definitely one of the few āgapsā in Asanaās overall end-to-end workflow cycle features.
We are trying to build a sales pipeline, with sales leads being tracked by individual tasks. When leads are closed, they result in project creation off of a template. The lack of an ability to specify project roles during this process really really hurts.
We also sign a new client each week, and decided to still manually create the project. My point is that you probably lose by automating without roles, than doing manually with roles
Hello everyone! Iām picking up this thread to see if where this feature is at? Our team would very much benefit from allowing to convert tasks using templates but then also being able to assign the roles in the template.
My org has a process where marketing requests come in via a webform, the project request is automatically assigned to a project manager via workflow, then the project manager converts the task to a project (task details>ā¦>convert to>project). On the resulting screen they select a template weāve designed that reflects the project type. They have the ability to automatically set the dates here, but they canāt assign the project roles (that are defined in the template).
However, creating the project from āscratchā using a template does allow for the date & project roles to be defined.
Is all of this expected? I really want to convert the workflow task to the project itself so the form intake questions are captured in the final project itself.
This is expected behaviour sadly at the moment project roles can only be used when bringing in the project manually because it has to ask the question of who is taking these project roles.
I came here to create this topic, and found @Richard_Sather beat me to it.
Reason I became extra interested in this is that another piece of our puzzle towards automating the use proper project naming conventions has just fallen into place, namely: Set task title and description can now be done with rules.
This means that theoretically we could set up a pipeline like so:
I found the feature project role in the template is not working when you convert task to project from the template, but only works when you create project from scratch. But it makes no sense if we can convert task to project based on a template without fully use the feature in it, right? Any plan to enable it in the near future?
It feels reasonable to believe that they will introduce this in the future. But it isnāt easy because rules can convert tasks to projects. This happens in the background, so you should be able to specify in the rules which user will fill in rolesā¦
So we have the option to give people roles after a project is createdā¦
Itās just that the roles that were in the template arenāt available anymore after the project is created.
Thinking about how Iād tackle this if I were Asana:
Keep the project role as a special kind of custom field linked to the tasks
Have the roles appear as a drop-down option from the project overview when giving someone a role we could assign roles after creation.
Enable that assigning a role inherited from the template results in assigning the person to the tasks that have this role attached
That would mean we stop focusing on doing it as the project is created, but get the option to do it after the fact. Then the rules donāt need project roles as input.
This would also make it easier when someone takes over a certain role, we could just re-assign all the tasks belonging to that role to the new project memberā¦
B2.5 A template allows for variable assignees BUT if a task is turned into a project using a template in rules, you donāt have the opportunity to choose the roles. in Asana, show me your BUTs š
