Well Put Claire. A giant Bump from me, can’t wait to end the endless “Swirl” going on with my College and PTO…
Currently users can book their next unavailable day through their profile, but tasks can still be assigned to them on these days. It would be great to not only have the option to add multiple non-consecutive days off, but to also make them unavailable to be assigned to on those days through blocking.
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Thank you for merging this!
I’m adding a voice to the ongoing conversation here. One half measure I’ve seen on an Asana tutorial was to create a specific project for out of the office (OOTO) days. We’ve implemented that into our workflows, and now our HR manager adds OOTO time to that calendar as tasks, assigning them to the specific team member. Then team members have to manually assign that OOTO task to all of their active projects so that the task shows up on every project they’re on. This is a highly manual process that is prone to human error.
In fact, we’ve had it happen, and an important client meeting was scheduled at the same time as a key team member was OOTO. Because they had forgotten to assign their OOTO task to all of the active projects they were on. This error cost our organization money, and ever since we’ve been trying to find a way to automate.
We got a step closer by creating an “Active Projects” portfolio to our Asana. Our organization typically has 20-30 projects running at any given time, and this portfolio contains all of the active ones. We were hoping there would be a way to somehow assign any OOTO “Task” that’s been added to the OOTO project to all other projects within that portfolio. That way, the OOTO task would show up in the calendar view for each individual project, making it HIGHLY VISIBLE to our project managers while assigning tasks and deadlines to team members.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to do this either, so I’m casting my vote here.
I just want OOTO time to be indelibly linked to the associated team member so that when they’re involved with a project, their OOTO bookings come with them. The visibility alone would be enough to make this an effective solution for our workflows. And yes, this also applies to national holidays. The only difference being that national holidays would affect a large group of team members instead of only one.
The lack of this feature is a liability, and it is unfortunate how little weight this and other feature requests seem to carry at Asana.
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Just came here to say the same. Few years back, I was using Wrike and there was a setting to setup a global calendar company-wide. This is extremely helpful as it allows you to properly plan ahead taking in considerations company and public holidays into account. I’m currently promoting the use of Asana in my organization but this can cause me some headaches and pushback. Thanks!
Please take my upvote for this functionality.
The ability to set up non-working days (such as weekends and regional public holidays) i.e. having a custom calendar for the team / project is a basic prerequisite for project management, regardless of the methodology (predictive or agile). It is baffling that Asana has not implemented this, while all of the “usual suspects” for project management (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Wrike, etc.) have this feature.
7 years and the basic but critical core project management functionality of setting non-working days/time in a project and project team member calendar is “Still on the Radar”.
How many upvotes are required to make this become a priority - One more from me.
Until Asana releases this feature, here is a solution anyone can build themselves, using an amazing 3rd-party app, Flowsana by @Phil_Seeman:
Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply
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Asana - can you please develop a way to block out dates so you cannot assign them as a due date?
Can’t believe that Asana has not implemented this feature ~7 years after it was requested. This is a foundational feature for any project management tool. Microsoft Project (for one) has been providing the ability to configure global and individual user calendars for well over a decade…