A Marketing Team wishes to auto-shift dependent tasks due dates incrementally and automatically by 1 week without having to manually update the due dates. I even tried creating a workaround by adding a Single Select Custom Field: Push Out: Yes; No, and if Yes, Add due date by 7 days, but it will only add 7 days from the date that the rule is triggered, NOT the due date that the task is assigned.
If you do shift out the task by one week manually on the Timeline, the next dependent task / milestone (in this case Milestone B) gets pushed out by 1 or 2 days, not the 1 week.
Am I missing something here? I’ve referred to all the guideline articles including this one as well: Guide on Timeline
No one has figured out a solution / work-around just yet. I was hoping rules would save the day, but no luck.
Yes, I’m hoping the same! I don’t know if the newly launched Workflow Builder is the answer - it seems not otherwise @Rebecca_McGrath would have mentioned.
It’s hard to get third party APIs passed through security.
I was hoping this forum post would generate some Asana-based workaround answers, and so far – none. I have yet to try workflow builder - but again, I doubt it would be a solution – have yet to explore.
Workflow Builder is at its core about moving a task through the sections of a project (i.e. through a workflow) in a defined, structured, documented way. As you suspect, it doesn’t have anything to do with auto-shifting dependent tasks.