Project Due Date Ranges - are these actually Start/End dates (like with tasks) or ranges of when a project is expected to wrap?

[cosmo]

I haven’t been able to find a clear definition anywhere in the Asana docs on this.

At first I thought it was clearly meant to be a start/end range because that’s how it works for Tasks, but not i’m not so sure….

Is the idea that milestones show when work is happening beforehand, and then there’s a range of time where we think things will wrap up by?

I’ve always thought it would be interesting to reflect that some projects have fuzzy expected finish dates and wondered what that feature might look like.

Was it there this whole time and I had no idea?

[lpb]

If you use a project Due date range (as opposed to just a Due date alone), it represents the running time of the project, from Start to Due date. I’ve never heard it intended in the other way you describe (though you’re free to use it however you want!), and I think that’s supported by these available Portfolio metadata fields that Asana automatically calculates:

Thanks,

Larry

[cosmo]

@lpb thank you for sharing—that makes sense given those Portfolio metadata fields!

We haven’t been using “Duration” or “Time remaining” but I’ve just added them in, very useful