I just wanted to pop in to say that I’m currently trying to get our team sold on using Asana Premium to manage our projects. The only way I can do this is if I can get a view (ONE view) to show us the information we need in our Monday morning staff meetings. Currently, we have one that allows us to discuss what was done last week and what is coming up this week.
It sounds like the feature you guys have removed would have been the thing that allows me to get our company on board! Without it… I’m resorting to clunky workarounds and we’d have to flip through various pages to see the same information. It will be hard to convince management to buy in to this when I’m the only one allowed to create our printed agendas (thanks to the extension) or we’re wasting even MORE paper.
Please bring it back!! We need something like Asana - everything else is so wonderful, we’re just missing the one key piece for our office.
Hi Alexis,
I understand this is out of your hands, but I really wish Asana would take a more thoughtful approach when it comes to removing features.
I’m sure you understand that once a team adopts a product like Asana that it quickly winds its way into internal workflows and business processes. The disruption that is caused when you suddenly remove a feature (even when you think you are replacing it with a “better” one) can cause serious havoc and frustration for our users. Not only do we need to find (often inadequate) workarounds but we also have to train less savvy users a new process. Not to mention explain to our leadership why something we could rely on yesterday is now gone and we have no idea why or if it is coming back.
I would love to see this feature return, but more than that, I would like to see Asana stop removing features without proper warning.
Hi folks,
I truly hear you. Thank you for your feedback on this. I’m working with my team to find out if there are new ways we can inform you all about feature updates, beyond the release notes and blog posts we have today. I’ll keep you posted if we have updates.
Thanks!
I’ve got it, and it’s definitely helpful! It’s just hard to have to explain workarounds like this to everyone when we’re paying for premium. I appreciate your work, thank you for creating this!
The effect of seeing all tickets that have been successfully finished and all the tickets that are left for that day is VERY important. This is a huge degradation.
I’m also chiming in to support the return of this feature, it’s seriously degraded our productivity to constantly switch between viewing a project and searching for recently completed tasks…
Another frustraded paying customer just chiming in.
This needs to comeback, there should be a way to set a default view for a project where we can see the currently pending tasks as well as those recently completed.
As others have said, FORCING a regular user to create a saved search it’s disrupting
I’d like to see this as a dashboard for each employee. Managing the tasks of others is an integral part of using Asana and one should easily be able to view tasks completed by each employee.
My solution to this problem was to create a report using the Recently Completed Tasks template and adjusting the setting to tasks completed in the last 1 day and then sorted by assignee. I saved and renamed the report for quick reference.
I would rather see this as a dashboard when I search on an employee or click on their avatar.
Just adding my voice here. We have 80 people using Asana for the past 3+ years and are paying for a premium service. I’ve been monitoring this thread ever since this functionality was removed more than 1.5 years ago in the hopes that all these voices would be heard and this critical functionality restored. It’s really disappointing that so many people are requesting this, and even creating their own plugins and workarounds to get this back. I love Asana, and would really like to stay with it, but we can certainly take our $10K/year and spend it elsewhere if this isn’t made a priority soon. It has been crippling to us.
I have many examples of where used this feature, but our tactical and strategic meetings are what suffer the most. Example:
We have a tactical meeting board that we meet on each week. Our team leaders add to the board and complete tasks throughout the week. During each meeting it is critical to be able to see the tasks completed in the last week (without being inundated with ALL completed tasks for the past X weeks/months/years). At the same time we need to see the ALL incomplete tasks, and any new tasks that have been added during the week. The search workaround turns our Board into a List, so no go there.
We have been flipping between views to get through it, but it’s extremely cumbersome…to the point we are actively considering alternatives. I’m writing this as a last ditch effort before the rest of our team decides to move on. I can understand how new features may not fit into your roadmap, but from a user standpoint, it’s a cardinal sin to take critical functionality away…especially when it has this type of reaction. Please consider reprioritizing to add this feature back in. Thank you.
I thought I was crazy when I couldn’t find this option anywhere in the UI. In our case we’ve been using the same main Project for some time which thankfully still retains the Recently Completed setting in it’s saved default view.
I was actually looking to see if there was a way to set the an Incomplete + Recently Completed view for Boards. But seeing as to how it was removed from Projects in general and Asana has not been responsive I guess it is simply wishful thinking on my part to ask it be added to Boards.
+1 to this feature.
I am trying to configure my Asana like I would my paper to-do list, where I strike off items and write a new list the next day with what’s left over.
Striking things off the list is great because it both feels wonderful, but it is also a record of what I’ve achieved that day - I want my to do list to ‘reset’ each day where yesterday’s completed tasks are not shown but I can see the day’s accomplishments.
In Asana, I feel like I am always wondering what I just did. Please let me view these completed tasks during the day!
The hack is still working properly. Even as converted Firefox add-on, with Asana that changed a lot in its system, and feature is still available just hidden from UI! I “saved for everyone” a lot of projects making my colleagues benefit from the feature that Asana thrown away from its UI almost 2 years ago!
@Lawrence_Han — A little over a year later and I’m still missing this feature daily (despite using the plugin quite a lot).
If this feature is now truly shelved, could I ask (on behalf of the community) what the positive design considerations were behind its removal?
Was is to simplify the UI, or perhaps to put a brake on a type management style that Asana didn’t want to encourage?
For my team, it realistically means that completed deliverables can now more easily go unchecked. They can be marked as complete by the assignee and more easily be missed when a manager reviews a week’s work. As you can imagine, this can lead to acute problems much further down the line when the error becomes visible again.
I’m sure this kind of obfuscation wasn’t the design aim… but as an IxD/UI/UX chap myself (like a few in this thread), it would be great to know what was.
Was the removal perhaps to nudge users towards the paid Portfolios feature? Whilst being a bit frustrating, that rationale or similar is at least a little more understandable (e.g. GitLab has removed some previously free features when revising their plans); harder to be open about I guess too though!
Apart from this feature though, many thanks for a great product.
could I ask (on behalf of the community) what the positive design considerations were behind its removal?
