It would be super useful if we could select specific milestones to support goals, rather than having to pick between either “projects” or “sub-goals”. I love the automation of selecting automatic+ projects+ milestones completed, but not all milestones in a given project support each goal. This would make the goals feature much more valuable to our team, and it would hold more meaning for those we’re trying to get to participate with the platform. Thanks!
Good idea, this is currently not possible indeed.
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Welcome back, @Ellen_Mueller,
Can you effectively do this now with this workaround:
Multi-home the desired milestones to an adjunct project, like “ Goal Tracking Milestones” and use that project instead of the main one as the Goal Reference project.
You could even have a rule that multi-homes based on setting a dropdown “Goal Tracker?” custom field.
Hope that helps until/if this is implemented.
Thanks,
Larry
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Could you please explain this with the help of an example? I didn’t understand this because the problem persists at the project level. How would creating a different project for milestones only help solve this problem?
Goal progress can be auto-calculated by referencing one or more projects to monitor the completion of milestones within.
The requestor wrote that “not all milestones in a given project support each goal.”
My solution was to recommend not referencing that project, but instead multi-home just those germane milestones into another project, and using that project as the auto-calc reference project.
Multi-homing means that you can still change the milestones from the original project where the rest of the tasks and other milestones are, which makes it no less convenient than before, but still serving to correctly calculate the goal.
Larry
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Thanks Larry! This is a great work-around!
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At the moment it is only possible to connect a goal to all of the milestones or tasks in a project. This is not useful when you have several goals focused on a single project - as is often the case. It would be much more useful if you were able to select the specific milestones from the connected projects that you want to be counted towards that goal.
The workaround at the moment is that you just create sub-goals instead of using milestones, but the disadvantage of that is that these sub-goals then do not show up under the project’s list of tasks and milestones so they are not very useful operationally.
It would be much better if, for example, you could create two goals linked to a specific project, with three milestones each (6 milestones in total). And then you could connect each of those goals to its respective 3 milestones only so that progress against that goal is automatically updated when you make progress on those specific milestones.
Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply
Until/if Asana adds the capability you request, consider satisfying your need right now with Asana’s multi-homing feature.
It does mean that you will need to create extra project(s), but this approach doesn’t suffer from the shortcoming of the workaround you mention above.
Hope that helps,
Larry
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This feature has been available for a while now.
@Forum-team , could you please move to Product Feedback > Features Launched ?
Thanks!
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