I’m on my Premium team, and imported a project with the proper formatting, but the “start date” column doesn’t read as dates when you tab over to calendar or waterfall view. It looks as if I have to go in and manually change the “Due date” to a “date range” in Asana, and completely disregard the “s…

Hi @MJ_Jean , welcome to the Asana Community Forum! If you have a Premium Plan and you add start dates to your CSV these should be also added as start dates in your tasks. I recommend you checking that you are working on the Organization/Workspace that you have a Premium Plan, you can check this by c…

Okay… taking a breath here, but after following all instructions to a ‘T’, this is still not working on my end (Premium subscription). I’m SO frustrated as i have now burned more personal hours (days) on this that Asana is nearly no longer worth sticking with. This is SUCH a basic and important thi…

@scott14 , I just gave this a quick try after reading the Guide and get a new custom field Start date created. I don’t see how to achieve a date range so either it’s not clear how to do it or there’s a bug. Can you give more info @Emily_Roman or an example csv that works? Thanks, Larry

@Emily_Roman and @scott14 , Yes, I tried just now, using the exact same import.csv file, and it works today, but it did not work for me 3 days ago as I reported, confirming @scott14 ’s report around the same time. It seems that there was a bug then (perhaps there’s still an intermittent problem). Th…

Premium member here. I got this to work correctly exactly once. What is Asana doing to fix this problem?

Welcome to the Asana Community Forum, @Heather_World ! I just tried to reproduce this and it’s currently working. I recommend you checking some tips to organize your spreadsheet in this article: Asana CSV Importer • Asana Product Guide and if the issue persists, please contact our support team so we…

Even with Premium, Start Dates aren't reading as Dates

English Forum Ask the Community

Emily_Roman 2 April 2021 13:43 5

Hi @lpb, sorry for the delay here! I just tested and it’s working for me, I’m not able to attach a csv file here but you can follow this example:

I hope this helps!

1 Like

Topic		Replies	Views
CSV import - no start dates for import Ask the Community	15	3417	26 March 2025
Asana Due Date Format mapping from CSV Ask the Community	8	2012	28 May 2024
Calendar Dates import to asana via CSV Ask the Community	3	1124	18 July 2023
Uploading CSV File: Cannot Upload Date Range in Due Date Ask the Community	4	677	24 January 2024
Start Dates and Time in the CSV imported Product Feedback import-export , dates	3	3206	29 October 2019

Even with Premium, Start Dates aren't reading as Dates

Related topics