I am using a People type of custom field to track company history of who worked on what projects. However, I just realized a major problem with this use case: since I do not have direct control over the options in the field, when a user leaves our organization, they disappear from the field!
Example: I create a People-type field called “Project Lead”, and Jonesy is one of our employees. When Jonesy leaves the company, and I remove him from Asana, all tasks with the value “Jonesy” in the “Project Lead” field repopulate that field as blank. There is not even a comment in the task which shows that Asana made a change.
This is a huge problem for any kind of historical tracking. Unless Asana plans to update this and allow us to retain users in a People field when they leave the organization, I’ll just have to redo all my People fields as regular custom fields and populate them manually. :,(
Does anyone else have use cases where this will be an issue?
@Bastien_Siebman @lpb just curious if y’all knew about this or had insight!