Asana Reports: Widget for values not set

[Frank_Clark]

I am trying to create widgets in my dashboard for when custom fields are not set.
For example, we have custom fields for: Priority, Risk and System. The goal is to have a convenient widget to identify when someone has not populated their task data correctly.

Let’s take Risk as an example as it’s quite simple. The custom field is a single select. The options are high, medium, low

I have set up a widget that has the following settings:

Chart Style: Number
Chart Data: Task/Count

Filters
Custom Field Risk, set to exclude Low, Medium, High.

Result: The count is 0 even though i have multiple tasks with now risk value set.

This even applies when using Asana’s advanced search, even though that specifically has an option for ‘with no value’

The latter is almost certainly a bug, however, the former i guess is a feature request.

[Frank_Clark]

A work around i have found for this is to create a option on each of the custom fields just called “-” then added custom rules so that whenever a task is added to the project without a value for those fields it sets it to “-” my widgets then filter by any tasks with “-” set. This works but is definitely a hacky work around.

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @Frank_Clark , you may want to add your voice and vote to this existing thread:

Dashboard Filter operator for not set values

Hello. It would be great to have another operator in the filter for a dashboard chart on a custom field for “none set”. Use case: I want that all tasks gets a value from a customer field assigned. To monitor how many tasks do not yet have an assigned value, I wanted to create a chart in the dashboard counting the tasks which have not set any value of a custom field. Using “Filter” on the chart allows the operators: “is exactly these”, “is all of these”, “is exactly these”. But then i can only …