Great work on the timeline feature - really love its simplicity. One thing however seems over-simplified to me:
There should be an option to hide weekends. If I plan a 5-(work)-day task that is supposed to start on Monday and end on Friday, and then my plan changes and I drag it to start on Wednesday, then it should (automatically) end on Tuesday, not Sunday.
I understand this doesn’t fit every project - hence an option to enable this behavior. However, I think most companies need this functionality.
Yes, I completely agree with this request! This is a major issue I have with the Timeline view, because I have a timeline “template” for certain projects, and I wish it would automatically shift dates forward if they end up falling on a weekend. This would save me the time of having to manually make sure that nothing falls on a weekend.
Would love a feature like this, or even with a twist, just have the weekends be a different colour at the top on the dates, so i can quickly see if i’m accidentally robbing someone of their weekend!
We are the same - we work Monday to Friday.
We have some tasks that are on a daily recurring schedule but there is no way of stopping it selecting weekends (that I’ve found). If there is any way to allow a “working” week option at the company set up level would be fab for us.
I don’t know if this was a change at any point, but on the timeline, the weekends are now color coded a slightly darker background color. I didn’t notice at first, but there they are, right in front of my nose.
We need it too! It’s basic for us.
If you move a big amount of task forward, you have to check weekend and weekend and weekend and weekend at timeline.
Without this feature, it’s very difficult to use the timeline feature to rough out a project plan. For example, without hiding weekends, a Friday + Monday task looks much larger than it is.
I’m super surprised that this feature isn’t available, and it’s kinda absurd.
With weekends in the timeline, this feature is designed to nudges people to work over weekends. But my team isn’t going to do that. And to have to manually change this when the project timeline changes is, well, it makes the timeline feature unusable.
This is the 2nd time my team has considered moving to asana. The timeline feature was the reason we were reconsidering. The lack of ability to hide weekends was an instant nope. We won’t be switching to it. IMO, timeline shouldn’t have gone out the door without that feature, and it’s a shame because the UI overall seems pretty great and otherwise looks like it’d meet our needs. :-/
This is a huge feature that is missing. As others mentioned, I chose Asana for the Timeline feature. Now that I see that it is basically useless without being able to hide weekends, I will be looking for an alternative platform.
I literally cannot believe you have launched a product without the ability to either ignore weekends (hide them) or automatically adjust the start/end dates when a task overlaps them. You really think forcing people to tweak EVERY subsequent task in a sequence every time you move a prior one in the chain is acceptable?