Can we get an update on this? Echoing the years of concern in this string, this is a gaping security hole that prevents the effective use of Asana for basic process control. If you can’t have basic permission controls over tasks in the ways laid out by the many users here, then because tasks (or years worth of projects and files) CAN be deleted, at some point they WILL be deleted, either accidentally or intentionally. The comment-only features are helpful, but do nothing to close the security hole for anyone who is not only a comment-only contributor.
It makes using Asana more like an interesting (and beautiful!) app, but when it comes to data security not a serious industry-standard contender like a Salesforce or a number of ERP solutions. If I were a developer for asana, I’d want to be better than that. But maybe we should just accept that they aren’t (yes, that is a challenge).
I’ll continue to use it for now as I LOVE the interface. But at some point, assuming we continue to grow, switching will be inevitable if we want real data security for all our projects and processes.
@Marie@Patrick_Lorenz I believe from security point of view it is a very critical feature. Many users have already pointed out the loopholes. I am glad that for a startup like us ASANA has been a savior and I would love to adopt it as a business user as my team gets bigger. However, with such basic security issue and also no explanation of why it cannot be solved, I and many others would be forced to use other alternatives to manage their tasks.
I totally agree with this concern It would be great if the first column could be"fixed information" and the any tasks coming after that
On a construction project we like to e able to go back and see many previous steps in the process
Is there any progress on this? If not a permission just a delete log of when and who. It would take our most junior engineer no more than 15 minutes to develop this, cannot understand your refusal to listen to hundreds of requests above.
@Marie Any update on this? This has recently become a requirement for us, and unfortunately without a solution, work around, or timeframe, we’ll be forced to look elsewhere for our project management software.
Surprised at the longevity of this thread for a basic feature. Asana team should seriously consider this since at least in our organization this has caused two instances and had to rely on a individual to admit ( would have not been possible to prove it otherwise).
Hopefully it will be available in Feb 2021 updates
How many of your thousands of feature requests have 10,600 views, 109 comments, for almost three years where people are continuing to actively request such a basic feature?
What exactly is it going to have to take for your product team to prioritize this?
This is very disturbing to see that such famous team management software is not helping its community with a small but crucial security feature like this.
We were looking for such software but surely without this feature this software might become a liability. You can’t control and one team member will some ill intention could cause a lot damage by deleting tasks permanently.
All other features are good but this one could take a lot customer away from ASANA.
Asana, please provide an update about this issue. Providing us with permissions to protect task and projects from deletion is a big deal for any company using this as a work management and productivity platform.
Hi @Daniel_Pho, welcome to the Asana Community Forum and thanks for sharing your feedback with us! I’m afraid we don’t have an update on this topic at the moment, we’re keeping a close eye on this request and we will post any updates as soon as we have them.
We are using Asana with a small userbase, still we would like to prevent certain users from being able to delete tasks.
A more advanced user management is expected, unfortunately even in business version of Asana, no such features exist.
@Emily_Roman Any update on this? We are also spending inordinate amount of time policing our tasks on a daily basis to ensure non-authorized project team members do not create or destroy tasks. If Asana is not planning to support project-based task management permissions - surely there would be some suggested work around?
Hi @David_Cooper, welcome to the Asana Community Forum! I’m afraid I don’t have updates to share at the moment. We’ll make sure to update this thread as soon as we have any.
We have shared a couple of workarounds in previous comments. For example, we recommend setting your projects as Comment Only and share it only with people that should have access to edit and collaborate on that project. This helps you to control who has access and prevent that other people delete tasks by accident.
My company is looking into project management tools, and this is a must-have feature.
Unfortunately we won’t be picking Asana due to
Not having this feature 2) Not implementing such a critical feature for 3 years despite the strong customer feedback
I would listen more to your customers! This is the top page that comes up on Google when searching for “Asana prevent member from deleting task”, and all I see is customers’ needs getting ignored for 3 years!
Please share this feedback with your product Managers.
Emily, This is not a solution, at all. Users need to create tasks. but they need to be restricted from deleting tasks that arent theirs. If they do delete a task, all stakeholders need to be notified and the deleted task needs to go into a shared deleted items bin… NOT the user that deleted it. This issue makes it impossible to know if a task was deleted.
This is beyond frustrating, and critical to operations workflow, and Asana needs to fix this now.