Personal Projects Migration

[Phil_Seeman]

@anon76047585,

FYI I merged your pot with an existing thread on this topic.

[Michael_Collinson]

Hi @Richard_Sather, No. Attached is what I see.

FYI, I am now having a dialogue with Asana support who are being very helpful. If we get any conclusion, I’ll post it here.

[Arya1]

Here’s a workaround to the missing Create new workspace option. Invite that Asana account with the Personal Projects into another Asana account’s workspace that does have the option to create workspaces. This triggers creating a default My workspace next to the Personal Projects in the invited account. For this migration, I made a new throwaway Asana account and then used this new account’s workspace to do this.

[Jason_Hurley2]

Since Personal Projects are going away, I’m trying to create a Workspace where I can transfer my dozens of projects and many, many tasks.

Every article on Asana states, “go to Settings > Account and create a new Workspace”. But, under the “Organizations and workspaces” section, I have no button to do that. All it shows is “Organizations” and then lists nothing. (see attached)

What am I missing?

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @Jason_Hurley2 , I moved your post into this existing thread.

See if @Arya1 's workaround, just above, works for you.

[Jason_Hurley2]

This worked for me! I created a throwaway Asana account, invited my normal account into the default project, and then that kicked off some upgrade process for my normal account and now it’s good to go. Thank you @Arya1 and @Richard_Sather!!

[Richard_Sather]

Ah, that’s great! Happy to connect the two of you

[Dave.Richards]

Hi All, we discovered there was a bug with creating a new workspace for a few Personal Projects accounts. It is now fixed and you should be able to see the option to create a workspace from your settings. Apologies for the confusion!

[orz.zoe]

Are you sure it’s fixed? I still don’t see the option to “Create new workspace” in my instance.

[jz12]

Following the steps to move tasks from Personal Projects to a new one…

https://help.asana.com/s/article/discontinuation-of-personal-projects-spaces#step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-move-from-personal-projects-to-a-new-workspace-or-organization

The creation date is not preserved, even though it is in the exported csv file. The imported task shows as if it were newly created, losing that valuable piece of information.

Is there any way to preserve the creation date of the task being imported? Or is there a fix pending for this?

NOTE: this is only for one particular task that I care about, so if it’s a more manual process to preserve the creation date I’d be happy to hear about that too.

Thanks in advance.

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @jz12,

FYI I merged your post with an existing thread bout migrating personal projects.

Unfortunately the migration doesn’t retain that field. For your one task, you’ll probably just need to note its actual creation date in the task name or description.

[Richard_Sather]

..or, @jz12 , you could import the CSV’s completed date into a Date field of your own that is simply called ‘Completed on’.

Going forward, you could then create a rule to populate your completed on date field with the actual completion date, when a task is completed.

[jz12]

Was going to post here, but thought the problem was independent enough.

Export to csv, then import from csv, whilst losing the creation date.

But perhaps that’s a feature, not a bug.

[jz12]

Was referring to the creation date.

CSV field is: “Created At“

[Richard_Sather]

Right, sorry. But same logic applies.

[Dave.Richards]

Hi Everyone, sharing a recent update here - Personal Projects Being Discontinued - #30 by Dave.Richards