Hey Asana Community,
I’m Ben, a product marketer on the Track Anything team, here to share some exciting news on feature updates! When tracking information in Asana, custom fields give you the flexibility to track all different types of data in a standard way. These standards make it easier to filter and sort your projects, build seamless automations, and create compelling charts with powerful insights. Starting this month, we’re excited to roll out our newest custom field type option to your Asana libraries: People Custom Field!
This new custom field type allows you to tag any Asana user and guest in your domain into a custom field. Want to create clarity around who should be “consulted” for a task? Need to identify which “designer” the copywriter can work with on a task? These are all great reasons to utilize this new custom field.
Just like any other custom field, you can add them from your customize menu on the right side of any project. If you wish to use the field on other projects as well, make sure to check the “Add to [company’s] field library,” option when creating it. Once created, you can start typing in a name to pull up a search menu of users and guests in your domain that match the search term. You can add up to 20 people to a single field.
A few important things to note with this new custom field:
- By tagging people in this custom field, it does not automatically give them access to the task, nor will they be notified that they were added to the field. If you do add someone to a people custom field and they don’t already have access to the task, you’ll need to either add them as a collaborator or they need to be a member of any project the task belongs to.
- At launch, people custom field will be usable on projects, with Rules support coming shortly after.
- It is not recommended to use people custom field as a workaround for multiple assignees. By only having one single assignee per task, it creates more clarity around who’s directly responsible for the work, and helps ensure work doesn’t fall through the cracks.
- If you do wish to have multiple people working on a single, it’s recommended that you utilize subtasks on a parent task and assign those subtasks to different individuals.
People custom field has already started rolling out to some Asana domains and will be available to everyone in late August. If you have any questions, please let us know. We can’t wait to hear all the exciting new ways you plan to utilize this new custom field!
hopefully in the future though 