Automate Project Number

We are a Property Development business and have the following Order in Asana:
Team: - > WFMS
Projects:
101 John Rd
102 Smith Rd

How do we ensure that when we are ready for the next project the number is 103 and I can manually type the address in

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I believe there is no way to do this, you would have to check manually and/or ask your team to follow the rule

Very difficult to manage manually as it will be time consuming and prone to error.Lets take the below projects that are currently there:

KWY-101
KWY-102
KWY-103
KWY-104
KWY-105

And now we are about to start KWY-106 but before we start KWY-106 the KWY-105 was completed and has been Archived and now you only see

KWY-101
KWY-102
KWY-103
KWY-104

So how does someone go and figure out that then next project has to be KWY-106

If there are 30 projects going on then it becomes very difficult to figure out what the next number will be unless time spent manually to figure it out

@Katie can you please provide some feedback

You could use a reference project to to keep track on each project.
In addition to that, the number of project can be put in either custom field or tags.

@Kaitie can you please assist

Hi @Seuj_Barua As @Vib_Wor mentioned you could track this project number in a custom field, and as @Bastien_Siebman mentioned, there is not way to automate this directly in Asana. You could use the API to write into a custom field for each new project, and you can see more information on the API here: Asana Developers - API, Documentation & Community Support • Asana

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You could also manage this in Excel or Google Sheets. That’s what we currently do.
We have a table with Project #, Client and Status. The sheet is just a running list. Process to create a new project is Create Project Number in Master List (to get the Number), then Create Project in Asana. It’s not pretty but it’s simple to manage. This is a pretty basic feature and should be addressed by the Dev Team.