I have a coworker who has built a Portfolio in Asana and is using the Timeline view. A number of projects with timelines have been added. She wants to be able to visually show admins which of those timeline items have a certain custom status (“already exists in book form”). Color is not an option, because the timeline colors are already being used to indicate the topic or subject group. The default status (on track, etc.) are not relevant to this, because the custom status refers to a different process than the one being tracked in the timeline (i.e., it is not the making of books that is being tracked in the timeline).
I wish that the timeline bars showed the project name instead of the owner, because then I could simply advise her to add an emoji to the project name, and that might solve the issue. But I’m currently out of ideas.
and change the use of the color for this one to your custom status field.
Also/or, re your idea to use an emoji in the project name: The project name always appears in the left column, so wouldn’t that provide visibility if you wanted to use that approach (too)?
I didn’t know about the “copy Timeline” option. That could possibly be useful. I will pass that along. The only downside is that is separates the indication into another view.
The emoji thing could work. The problem I was trying to avoid is that the emojis are all at the far left of the chart. So if you have a really long timeline (and this one is very long, going years into the future), and you make the view wide, your eye has to track a long distance to see the association. That might not seem like a big deal, but I don’t think it’s ideal. It’s a lot of back and forth between elements on the screen.
