Add "Skip weekends" feature in task templates.

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Functionality should mirror the “Skip Weekends” feature with project templates.

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I would like the ability to exclude weekends from tasks/subtasks. When creating task templates, we incorporate due dates in the automation for the subtasks based on the number of days from task assignment. If We assign a task template on Thursday and one of the subtasks is due 3 days from assignment, the due date would be Sunday. Since we don’t work on Sundays this task will obviously be past due. Would like to the option to exclude weekends and the task default to the next business day. For this scenario that would be Monday.

Would also like ability to have multiple subtasks that are completed in order through automation. For example, subtask 1 receives a due date (5/20/23) once that subtask is marked complete Subtask 2 is set up to have a due date 3 days from when subtasks one has been marked complete. This can be set up manually today, however, if Subtask 1 is marked complete on 5/21/23 subtask 2 still has a due date 3 days from 5/20 and the date doesn’t adjust. Subtask 2 can’t be completed until Subtask one has been completed. Would like Asana to automate the upcoming due dates based on prior task completion but still allow settings to be able to document number of days from completion.

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Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Erica_Villanueva :wave:

I have merged your post into an existing feedback request thread.
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With task templates, is there a setting to prevent task due dates from landing on weekends? I know about the weekend awareness in dependency management options, but with the way due dates are set in the initial task build, calculated by the date the task is created, some tasks are landing on weekends & I’d like to avoid this.

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Currently no, sorry.

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I’ve merged your post into an existing topic where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the purple Vote button.

Thanks,

Larry

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I would like to have skip weekends be a feature for task templates. We have soooo many tiny projects that we record them as tasks and creating full “projects” for them in asana would be unwieldy.

I really think this would be invaluable.

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