In Portfolios, allow Owner and Milestones columns to be toggled off, just like Status can be

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The built-in Status column can be toggled on or off, but the same is not true for the built-in Owner and Milestone columns. Why?

My client had a use case to turn off Owner because they have two types of owners to show in columns. Since the heading for “Owner” can’t be configured, and these are not the same as Project Owner, they don’t want to show that built-in column, just their own custom ones. I can imagine many other use cases, including just to reduce clutter if one doesn’t need to see Owner.

Here’s a request for Milestone to be hidden: 💻 Hide milestones from Portfolio Timeline view.

It’s not helpful to over-simplify and preclude customization when you already have a Customize menu and use it for one built-in field but then, seemingly arbitrarily, don’t include the other two built-in fields. Lots of little anomalies like this in Asana add up to make it unnecessarily frustrating to use, at times.

Thanks,

Larry

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Hi @lpb, thanks for providing this feedback. I hear you and can understand how this would be helpful!

I’ll keep you in the loop with any updates. Hopefully this is something we can see soon from our Product team :slight_smile:

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I know Asana is for teams, but I have 11 projects I run each month and the portfolio’s timeline is such a great way to manage the milestones in each of those projects. But being the owner of all the projects means 50% of the space on the timeline is taken up with a bar telling me I’m the owner. Being able to hide that would be a great boon!

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Hi @Mike_O_Dell , I think it best you create a new post in the Product Feedback category because this post is about the List view.

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@lpb , I believe this old request is now available, right?

Perhaps @Vanessa_N can move to :rocket: Features Launched category? :slight_smile:

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Hi @Richard_Sather, thank you for tagging me. :slight_smile: It looks like this thread refers to both project owner and milestones.

I can confirm that it’s now possible to toggle off the project owner column in the list view, however, project owner and milestones will still appear in the timeline view, and unfortunately it’s not possible to toggle them off yet.

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Right, @Vanessa_N, part is done, so I’m ok with leaving this open or another approach to make it more clear that some is done.

Thanks,

Larry

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@lpb , @Vanessa_N , sorry, I’m not following. The OP is asking to hide the ‘Owner’ and ‘Progress’ native fields, which is now possible. There is no mention of the Timeline view, which is why I suggested @Mike_O_Dell to create a new thread on that.

Sorry if I’m missing something :sweat_smile:

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@Richard_Sather, I defer to @Vanessa_N for how to handle.

I think the problem is that the OP links to the Milestones/Timeline topic which is not a Product Feedback request but is piggybacking on this topic’s votes for that part of this jumbled post!

Thanks,

Larry

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Hi @lpb and @Richard_Sather, yes, sorry, the mentions of milestones and timeline made things a bit unclear. :sweat_smile:

To clarify, this post is solely about list view, correct? I can edit the title and mark it as launched, as it’s now possible to toggle off the project owner column in list view, which seems to be the main request. If necessary, users can then create a new feedback thread for anything that is still missing.

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I would agree with that, @Vanessa_N . But @lpb , has final say, since it’s his OP. :wink:

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We’re all in violent agreement! That sounds good, @Vanessa_N, thanks!

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