Numeric Custom Field for Progress in Portfolios

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Welcome, @Steven_Campos,

There’s one other alternative built-in column available in portfolios instead of Task Progress and that’s Milestones. It’s not exactly a “progress bar” but it shows progress but presenting a diamond icon for every milestone in the project, depicted in green (complete), grey (incomplete), or red (overdue).

More generally, my Forum Leader Tip:

Showing progress visually in a Custom Field

My recent Forum Leader Tip on documenting your organization’s custom fields in Asana sparked some appreciation for that topic, but also about the individual custom fields I happened to show. So to answer questions, and at @Phil_Seeman’s request, here’s a post focused solely on my custom field to depict progress visually. Here’s how the field looks in List view with a value: [image] And when editing the value: [image] Here’s how the custom field is defined: [image] To create this custom f…

offers a way to create a progress meter custom field for use in portfolios (or projects), but the catch is that you have to update it manually or by a rule; it’s not automatic like the above two.

Thanks,

Larry