Expand recurring tasks with n-th weekday of the month / n weekdays before next month

[Jan-Rienk]

I love this update: Set tasks to repeat on a certain day of the month 🔁 and I’m wondering if we can supplement it and make it even better.

As for a lot of financial processes, they need to happen around the shift of the month, on a working day.

Therefore, it would be really neat if we could expand the monthly recurring tasks to include the following options:

• n-th weekday of the month
• n weekdays `before next month

[Amy_Hollrah]

YES! Working in a small finance department, our whole closeout schedule is based on the nth weekday of the month - it would save us SOO much time if we could use that as a basis for repeating tasks - set one per year (maybe double check for holidays) and I’m done! Instead, I am building each task out, duplicating for every month, adjusting for the right weekday, then go to the next one x 12 months x 50 tasks. Thank you!!

[Jr_Gomatos]

Adding a vote here. I was also directed to another thread that claims to have solved this problem, but it did not. My team uses multiple recurring checklists for tasks that recur monthly, and the tasks recur based on the working day of the month. For example, a task might be set to “recur monthly on the 4th working day of the month”. This seems like it would be a basic functionality, however, right now, our only option is to manually update the due dates in our checklists every month. This is a huge hassle and makes using Asana way more of a headache than it should be. Our old school Excel trackers could easily handle calculations of working days for due dates…

[Safia_Djaballah]

Voting for this! Someone else also requested it and then they fusion the thread and solved it by having the option to set ‘‘last’’ monday, tuesday, wednesday… But actually that is not the same as saying that my task is due the last business day of the month - which is pretty common!

[Jan-Rienk]

Hi @Jr_Gomatos and @Safia_Djaballah ,

I’ve moved your posts as it looks like it fits this feedback better than Would like an option for recurring/repeat task every <X> business days

The difference is subtle, but the features are different.

[Thea_Pettway]

I am also looking for asana to add this feature. Most of my tasks are due on the 1st, 3rd, etc., weekday of a given month. Can this feature be added?

Additionally I would like to see functionality where I can choose to set a recurring item for the 1st AND 15th of each month without making those 2 separate tasks.

Thanks

[Shane_Davison]

Asana users need this feature implemented. It is a normal use case that people need to schedule a task to be due on the “1st weekday of the month”, to avoid it falling on a Saturday or Sunday. The logic here seems simple.

In the dropdown after “Repeats Monthly” then “On the 1st…”, add the option for “Weekday” or “Business Day” (possibly accounting for Federal holidays) which would target the earliest Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, or Fri of the next month’s calendar.