My name is Aaron Ebert and I am a Product Marketer here at Asana. I am thrilled to tell you about our three newest products officially launching on January 14th to all Asana users. These products are built to help teams align on a shared vision, at any point in time, so that they can achieve more together. Get your teams on the same page with a one-stop shop for your projects and contextual conversations. Check out the features below:
Project Overview - Set the stage for work. And stay aligned. Give your team a one-stop-shop to find key resources, updates, and more. Things to know:
Project Overview is the first tab in every Asana project.
Create project roles inside a project, so teams know where responsibility lies.
Attach key files and documents so teams can easily access the most up-to-date information.
Messages - Communicate effectively at any level (individual, project, team, or any combination), directly where the work is happening. Things to know:
Messages is taking over the āConversationsā tab in every project.
Messages do not have a due date or assignee.
While Conversations allowed you to update members of a specific project, Messages are more flexible as you can send them to multiple projects, people, or any combination.
Messages can be started from Inbox, from the Messages tab in a project, from the omni button (+), or from hovering over a userās name.
Messages can be viewed in your inbox, in the Messages tab of a project, or in the left-hand side bar under reports (Messages Iāve Sent, Messages Iāve Received).
Stay tuned for more information on how these features can help your team gain clarity and context in the new year coming Jan 14th.
Honestly this is a very impressive update. Iāve given this feedback on a few calls and you guys have nailed it!
Love the central place and all the nuances you guys have brought to the overview tab. Much functionality and centralization. Keeping everything in one place, the activity tab, stats, key resources, itās so helpful for my team to have a place to resort to to have clarity and even let resources to get work done. Iām still trying to figure out the messages part but the overview is amazing.
Project overview and Project brief are currently not available on mobile. You can create a new thread in our #mobile:androidios-feedback category if you wish to see this features implemented on mobile and Iāll make sure to update it once I have news!
Messages are available in the Asana app for iOS and Android! You can now create private messages from your Inbox as well as team and project messages!
These are great new features! I just tried creating a Key Resource Project Brief to test out the new functionality, but now I canāt figure out how to delete it now. Any suggestions?
I love the new Overview and Project Brief feature! Would love to see if a template could have preloaded roles that can be assigned once the project is created from the template, but the whole overview page is a game changer in how we are reviewing our projects! Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks for your report @Crystal_Madrilejos and @pdmcdermott, as it stands, itās currently not possible to remove a project brief. You can edit it clicking the three dot icon. Iāll share your feedback with our team as well but I also recommend you creating a request in our #productfeedback category to allow other users to upvote!
@David_Ruder his is our first shot at Project Overview and based on your feedback we will work on some iterations over the next couple of months, so thanks for sharing your experience with us!
I love the free form nature of the Project Brief. It would be cool to customize these even further. Some of the recommendations I have would be:
Change the image of the brief from the Overview tab
Change the color of Headers
Embed videos so they can be wrapped by text and centered or right-aligned!!!
Allow for two (or three) column bullet (or number) lists
Create tables within text body
Custom field mapping - I think it would be really cool if when hyperlinking a task you had the ability to show which custom fields were represented to the right of the task name link (for instance, if had a project that listed client contacts you should choose to show the contactās position or organization to the right of their name dynamically as a custom field reference)
Hover capabilities for hyperlinked tasks (show custom fields and task details)
Iām interested to see how else others would look to customize their Project Brief
Thanks for your feedback, @LEGGO! We usually recommend one request per thread so people can vote for each specific feature they would like to see implemented. Since we have several requests in one thread, Iām merging your post with the announcement and Iāll share your feedback in my report to our product team. Stay tuned for the future updates, one thing we can promise is that youāll be first to know in the Forum
This is a great new feature!
Once youāve added in members and their roles, is there a way for the project to appear on their calendars ? Iām really struggling with finding a way to have projects added to a memberās personal calendar. I work with creative teams and usually require 2 people working on one task, but you arenāt able to assign tasks to more than one person. I need a way to have an accurate view of each creativeās bandwidth / workload.
The āmessagesā feature is just awesome! Finally there is no need anymore for a separate communication channel for private or less official messages (our projects are usually public). I like in particular how you integrated / combined all that smoothly with the discussion feature of projects.
Iām SO excited! Will āMessagesā act like a chat (e.g. slack/teams) that occurs outside of a task? Any videos or screen shares you can share about this feature? If it is similar to a chat feature, the Asana gods have answered all my prayers!!!
Came here because Iāve just discovered the messages feature in my inbox. The overview and project brief look brilliant too. Canāt wait to start using these features!
I guess weāll find out as we go, but Iām really hoping the messages feature can rival Slack (or might down the path with further developments).
I am now seeing Messages as well @Emily_Roman and @anon5798578 but want to provide some feedback from my brief use of the updates. First off, LOVE IT! So much potential here. Hopefully the points below can be seen as constructive! Happy to answer questions or be corrected as I most certainly am overlooking a thing or twoā¦
It would be really nice to be able to differentiate between Messages that stem from a Team, Project or Individual/Group (Adhoc).
I would also take this classification a bit further as I am seeing that Status Updates also appear as Messages. I could definitely see where I would want to differentiate those from general Messages - Iām unable to tell from the search results if a Message is a Status Updates or a Project Message (or converted Project Conversation)
Status Updates can be offered at a Portfolio level or Project level and show as Messages also. Perhaps this presents another opportunity to differentiate from the search results list where currently only those at a Project level have this indication (until you click into the Message details)
Will there be the ability to edit Messages as you can Comments? Will we at least be able to edit a Subject to a Message?
If I refine the search results for Messages and include a filter for āNo Projectsā the results donāt change - Messages at the Project level still show.
When you send a Message to a Team do they all get the notification? Where is that set like it is at the Project level?
When you send a Status update for a Portfolio do all the teammates get the notification? Where is this notification setting set as well?
When I view the āMessages Iāve Receivedā from the dropdown Search option the results show ones I also sent. It seems this is because the search criteria is when I am a Collaborator. In addition to having me as a Collaborator shouldnāt it also filter on Messages that are Commented on OR Created by āNot Meā? Not sure that a Message response is classified as a ācommentā in this instance thoughā¦ Basically I wouldnāt expect to see Messages that I have sent where nobody has responded
Any reason there is only a shortcut to āMessages Iāve Sentā from my Inbox as I assume it would have been those I receive that I could click to at a minimum, no?
If I am looking at Messages Iāve Sent or Received and remove the filtered condition I find that not all the Messages appear in the search results although I would expect to see all of those previously represented AND SOME. It is as if they get truncated. In this example I show 182 Messages with no filtered condition, just simply searching for Messages. Yet when I include a filter for me as a collaborator some appear that didnāt moments ago.
