Archiving a private project

[Justin_Wildung]

Is this still the case? Unable to delete or archive projects Even if you have Super Admin access to an account are you still unable to delete or archive a private project that was owned by a former employee?

[Andrea_Mayer]

Hello @Justin_Wildung, yeah that still seems to be the case.

I recommend reading through this great post from @lpb who shares tips and steps that should be taken before removing a team member to avoid issues: Remove/Offboard/Deprovision a User from an Organization, and what to do beforehand

@lpb

• If the user is the sole member of any private projects, or others all solely have comment-only access, add an existing user as a member with edit access to each such project
• If the user is the sole member of any non-public teams, add an existing user as a team member

And this is an interesting point as well:

@Marie

When a user is deprovisioned via the Admin console, all tasks assigned to them are gathered into a project which is assigned to the Organisation Admin.

One important thing to note:

• If this project is assigned to a Super Admin, they will automatically have access to all tasks in this project

[Bastien_Siebman]

It is surprising to some but a super admin in Asana cannot do everything they want. They can’t see private work and can’t make themselves owners of things.

That being said I recently discovered you can now override ownership of custom fields so this is definitely going in the right direction.