Mark a task as "Cancelled" instead of "Complete"

Hi Emily,

Mark Complete may also become Canceled Task, strike-through when cancelled.

Date/Time task creation is of utmost importance, in disregard of any other date, as that indicates time of intention, should be changeable for flexibility.

We reviewed Trello, Clickup, Planner and nTask.
Asana is the best because we can view as list, filtered by Complete, Incomplete, All.

I wish there were a filter by creation date/time.

Intuitive, less learning curve.

Ms Emily, Thank you.

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Active, Complete, Cancelled or Extended are primary states, adding a field for other than the currently available check mark would conflict with these states of task.

Date of task is created when task is created which makes that primary, it could be edited, but its main creation is set, like your age.

Above are important in sorting too, so maybe multi sorting options.

More suggestions:

  • When someone update task description, contributors are not notified.

Regards

More:

When a link is pasted in a task’s description, last character is excluded from the link, that is because your android program recognise a forward slash which is a usual end of a URL as a start of a new string, like:
https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=160848/

Regards

Sorry I missed your reply. You are correct, In the overview of portfolios you cannot filter out sections, I was thinking of Dashboard reports.

So with the Dashboard feature, you could theoretically design a set of charts that meet your need for a set of projects filtering out the canceled sections

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ooh but try The Cancelor rule on this post, super helpful

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So great to see my silly names being used :rofl: :heart:

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28 posts were merged into an existing topic: Add a ‘Not started’ project status

Hi Mohammad_Saleh :wave:

There’s a solution to what you mentioned here:

Asana hasn’t released a native ‘canceled’ feature yet; but if you have a Business account (or above), you will be able to set up a custom rule to automate this process.

You could set up any trigger that sets the rule in motion. Then, by selecting an external action found in iDO Things: “Cancel task…” (multiple versions of canceling).

Good luck :wink:

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Hi @Sarah_Browning & @Ruth_Newnham & @Rachel_Botts

Asana hasn’t released a native ‘canceled’ feature yet; but there is an equivalent solution, by selecting an external action found in iDO Things: “Cancel task…” (multiple versions of canceling).

ps: iDO Things were created by “Mr Cancelor rule” @Bastien_Siebman :wink:

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I prefer “Bastien the Great” like some call me :rofl:

Can an “Ignore” option be added to tasks in the software, instead of just “Complete” and “Delete”? After all, “not doing” and “completing” have two different meanings.
Scenario one: For tasks that recur regularly, skipping one for some reason (like an employee’s vacation) feels insincere to mark as “Complete,” and pressing “Delete” would remove the task.
Scenario two: When a manager assigns me a task and I comment “can’t do it,” then click “Complete,” it also feels odd. The manager might misunderstand my intention.

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Hi Eddie,

Welcome and thank you for your suggestion.

I’ve gone ahead and merged it to this existing thread, since it’s basically the same request.

Your topic didn’t have any votes yet so no votes were merged.

(Don’t forget to vote for your own ideas. :wink: )

Hi everyone. I’m a new user, but I’ve already come up against this issue. Certain tasks that were created in a brainstorming phase have been reconsidered and I’d like to mark them as Cancelled, instead of “completed” or deleted and lost from record.

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Just adding to the pile of people that would like a “cancelled” option other than Complete and Delete.

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We would also like a “Cancelled” option.

Our current workaround is to convert the task as an “approval” and then mark it as rejected.

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Big +1 to this @Claire_Franklin!
Would love to see my recent ask for a Not started project status bundled in with this change—please consider giving it a vote if you agree :slight_smile:

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I see, and we’ll have to ask @Forum-team if they can find the no-longer-visible topic that the other closed requests are pointing to, as you wrote.

Thanks,

Larry

Hi @Claire_Franklin

I believe this is the thread you’re looking for, I merged the threads to consolidate the votes.

Thanks!

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Thank you for the suggestion, @Julio_V, but this thread is for a Cancelled task status option. My thread & question was surrounding Cancelled Project Statuses. – It does look like this topic is brought up in the discussion above, but again the redirect to the correct thread to vote for a Cancelled Project Status is broken (ref: Mark a task as "Cancelled" instead of "Complete" - #31 by Bastien_Siebman).

With the newly introduced feature of Custom task types and statuses, one can now accomplish this by creating a custom task type having a status option of “Cancelled”.

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