It’d be great if we could set the “Color tasks by” option in all views based on a custom task type’s status color value.
We’re currently limited to custom fields that support colors, no color, Asana default, and “Status” which is really “Completion Status” (i.e. incomplete ⊕ complete).
We have this capability in reporting widgets (though, color fill for those is handled by Highcharts variables, which I assume are being set by retrieving the color from the status_options.color for the given custom_type.
I’m still currently maintaining a custom field called “State” to make it possible to apply the desired color to work (especially in the timeline/gantt views). Along with the rules necessary to keep that State value in sync with my custom task type’s status.