I don’t see how we can use Asana without being able to assign Client IDs and File numbers. We work with many repeat clients, so each client needs to have an assigned ID, and then each particular job/project assigned a number. For example, a client would be 6200 and the project would be 11248, so the particular project would be 6200-11248. Our other databases have this automatic numbering system, and it is what we use to track payments in Quickbooks. How is this not available???
Hi @Shilpa_Hari and welcome to the forum!
FYI I merged your post with an existing topic for this request. You can vote for it via the purple “Vote” button at the top of the thread!
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First time commenter here. I think it’s worth pointing out this forum topic is valid, important, and still open after more than four years. An enterprise-grade project management tool should have the capability to assign and validate a unique project number.
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Another vote for this. I actually can’t believe it’s not a thing.
I’m investigating moving a studio (within a very large organisation) from monday.com, but as we need our job management software to generate unique intelligent numbers and to be able to track this number across files outside of the project management system, and record print details against this job number in a database… if there is no option within Asana (or easily modded with a 3rd party app) then Asana is not an option.
What I like is how this request was opened up 4 years ago and the Asana rep said “I will pass on your request… how else can I help you?”… passing on the request really isn’t helping, and then having this go dead for about 4 years is unbelievable. It is a basic thing that’s been a need for projects for decades.
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Still needing this in our company also. Unique codes tie projects together across platforms and DAMS and Client libraries.
We need automatic Project Numbering, why is this such a hard task for Enterprise customers to get?
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I convinced my dept to upgrade our account, thinking I could make a job request form, but without project numbers I’m not sure we are going to be able to continue using this system.
We have a marketing request form that generates numbers and names tasks (12345-Event Name) which we do with a cobbled together web form. I thought Asana’s forms would be the answer. After getting the budget together to get the upgrade I’m reading I will need some other service in addition, like Flowsana?
@Jack_Cavicchi, Did you explore using a form plus a rule with a variable to put a unique ID custom field value in the task’s title immediately after form submission? This can be done natively in Asana.
Thanks,
Larry
I need the ability to assign a unique ID to projects. There is currently no way to do this. Ideally, I could carryover the ID field when I convert the tasks (created via intake form) to projects, but there is no way to do that. I need an easy unique identifier to refer to projects.
Is this something that will be on the roadmap? As they launched Unique ID Tasks this is really something that I need for projects and would help the enterprise sized orgs (especially in their marketing/media departments!)
Asana doesn’t publish a public roadmap, so we just have to wait and see - we won’t know until/if such an enhancement gets released.