Another request for this (easy to implement) feature
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Adding my voice here -this would be great, especially since I canāt assign a due date when creating tasks via email in my somewhat automated system.
@Roxanne1 If you use Microsoft Outlook on your PC you can assign tasks and due dates with my add-in www.sendana.net. Thanks
Please please please, this is long overdue.
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Adding another vote here. This request is 4 years old ā any insights from Asana?
Alternatively, the ability to reverse-sort due dates in search so that blank due dates show up at the top instead of the bottom would be helpful.
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I just voted on this one too. Ideally I want to see a report in global reporting: number of tasks with no due date broken down by things like the user who created/assigned the task to see who needs to be educated on always assigning a due date. Sure there are some type of tasks which are just a brain-dump and donāt need a due date, though these could be filtered out of the report. Iād also want access to al the tasks with no due date as a list someone on the team can work through. This seems like such a simple request given the current functionality available so I am assuming there are other items with more votes being given a higher priority. If you are reading this and agree, donāt forget to vote at the top of the page (just adding a comments wonāt be enough 
).
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Wow, this request is 4 years old with tons of votes and comments - and still no resolution.
The solution should be as trivial as under the Advanced Search menu, include āNo due dateā in the Due date dropdown:
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Itās now been 5 years. I guess the task to fix the problem never got assigned a due date.
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Logging in specifically to put my vote in for this being a critical and seemingly basic feature.
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I believe this CAN be done quite easily in the existing reporting tool, although it is not intuitive because the option does not reside in the due date menu, but is given as a task status option as a filter. Hereās how I did it:
Go to Reporting, add a new chart
Select template: Incomplete Tasks by Project
Click add filter, select Task Status then select Unscheduled
Add other filters as required (e.g. you probably want to filter out complete tasks)
Rename Chart to Tasks with no Due Date
You will now have a chart which shows, by project, how many tasks do not have a due date entered allowing you to find these tasks and enter a date
Limitations with this is that the Chart/Report does not update in real-time, so that if you assign a Due Date to a task you need to refresh Asana for it to disappear. Even navigating out and back often leaves tasks lingering.
You also canāt link directly to the Chart from the side-navigation, you have to first click through the Dashboard, which is an unnecessary extra two clicks.
But otherwise, a reasonably good (and definitely unintuitive) solution to what seems like a very basic problem. Also not a replacement for just adding āNo due dateā as a filter in the Advanced search.
Adding my vote here. I can easily sort by most likes on a task, but not simply search for tasks that have no due date. Critical for a project management tool.
I would LOVE to search by no due date, and the work arounds listed arenāt the best. Completed without a due date isnāt always helpful especially when your Asana data passes to Power BI and is being used in analysis of events.
Thanks!
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itās now 2022 and this open (and essential) issue has not really been resolved.
6 years and countingā¦
I have tried the work-aroundās that others have suggested and they donāt seem to work for me.
My solution has just been to add a custom field and then use rules to update it.
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@Reuben_Baker This is a brilliant workaround. 
I will be trying this out!
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Great idea, @Reuben_Baker,
Possible very minor improvement: I usually create a boolean custom field like āHas Due Date?ā using a single option with value 
and use the most neutral color to reduce clutter. The Due date removed triggerās action can then be to clear the value. Your great solution, but perhaps a little lighter weight.
Larry
+1 to filter a search by tasks with no due date. This should be basic functionality for a project management tool.
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Hi, Iām implementing this workaround. Thanks for sharing! Do you know if itās feasible to add the āHas Due Date?ā custom field in the subtask of a subtask? In this example, I have 1 parent task in particular that has 4 subtasks and some of those have 5 subtasks. Thanks!
Hi Lenke.
Yes, I believe so.
I checked a couple of parent tasks with that field and the sub-tasks have it too.
(Thereās a āShow inherited fieldsā option in the sub-task to show/hide)
Only problem I have is catching this with rules. Removing/adding the date to a task is OK because itās a trigger, but if you create a task without a due date then thereās no trigger and therefore it wonāt update the field. (so not a perfect solution)
Hi Reuben,
Thanks for getting back. The difficulty on my end is that there are subtasks that are under subtasks and in this second level of subtask the āHas Due Dateā field is not shown. In these tasks the āShow Inherited fieldsā option is not visible either. I also treid configuring the rule to āRuns on tasks and subtasksā but it doesnāt generates this custom field on the subtask of a subtask. I still use the āHas Due Dateā label on as many tasks as we can.
Regarding the rules, I face the same problem you described. I ended up adding the āHas Due Dateā field manually. Iām playing with options to define a rule that would add this custom field by default as āDoesnāt have Due Dateā when a new task is added to this project.
Thanks,
Lenke