Hi @Tom_Woolley,
What specific concerns do you have? Weād be happy to help you explore more ways that Asana can work for your team. Keep us posted
Hi @Tom_Woolley,
What specific concerns do you have? Weād be happy to help you explore more ways that Asana can work for your team. Keep us posted
What weāre getting at is that we donāt want the tasks that exist within a TEMPLATE to appear in peopleās āMy Tasks.ā When the template gets used, of course the tasks should get assigned-- but it would be much clearer to the users if the tasks were not assigned just because they were part of a template.
Hello,
Mee too, I would even say that it is mandatory for a template that its tasks do not appear in anyones tasklist.
The template is the model, the project is the instance of that model.
Please fix asap.
Marco
I would love it if template tasks were excluded from āMy Tasksā, a template is not an active project, and this creates confusion across my team.
@Angie_Gilbert, @Marco1, @Colleen_Pickford - I hear ya. What I do is simply move template tasks into the Later section of my My Tasks. That way they can stay assigned to me, but theyāre filed away in storage. I use Later for things that I wonāt action but I do want to reference and tasks that are assigned to me that donāt have a due date or action item (such as template tasks). I hope that helps!
Iām going to add my vote to fixing this. When youāre trying to get a bunch of office workers to adopt a new product that theyāre unfamiliar with, telling them to move their template-assigned task to the āLaterā section isnāt a good option.
I see a bit of confusion, possibly caused by the use of the ambiguous term ātemplate taskā. Let me see if I can clarify.
To be clear about what people are asking for, we all agree that once a template (letās call it āMarketing Kickoff Templateā) is used to create a new project (say, āPandaā), we want all the tasks in Panda to behave exactly the same as any other task - i.e. show up in My Tasks for each assignee, etc.
However, NOBODY wants to see the as yet-unactivated tasks resident IN a template to appear anywhere. A template and a project should have 2 different behaviors. Projects (and included tasks) are live; templates should not be. Templates and their defined tasks should stay waiting in the wings, behind the scenes. The process of creating a project from a template should be the magic wand that activates the tasks in that project.
Furthermore, template creators may or may NOT want to be added as, and notified as, collaborators on every task in every project spawned from every template they have created. In general, I would NOT want thisā¦it dilutes the meaning of the term ācollaboratorā, especially if I create really useful templates and deploy them for a large org. Yet this addition and non-stop notification now occurs automatically.
Yet Asana currently provides no different behavior. A ātemplateā is just another project that happens to (maybe) have the name āTemplateā. I want to keep my āMarketing Kickoff Templateā inactive. Thatās why I made it a template (instead of just copying a live project).
Heartily agree with everyone on this post and have upvoted Todd Cavanaughās related post. I appreciate the idea from Asana Alexis and a couple others about the band-aid of asking staff to ājust move tasks from the template to Laterā, but as many have already pointed out, that is a weak solution at best. Why?
Iām not saying anything that others havenāt, Iām just stating it again so it is crystal clear what this issue is and that āmove to Laterā is a weak workaround. So weak in fact, that it prohibits me from implementing what could be a very powerful feature of Asana, a feature that our managers are actually looking forā¦ āis there any way that we could pre-load these more complicated, yet recurring project types?ā.
Wellā¦
Alexis, while I appreciate the suggestions to make this temporarily manageable, please understand that this is only a workaround and not a solution. Can you please confirm that our request has been forwarded to Development for consideration?
To clarify:
Thank you so much.
Hi @Christina_Dunn_Singh - We appreciate your and the groupās feedback here. This thread has been moved to the #productfeedback thread here in the Community and the request is being taken into consideration. Thanks!
Work aroundās are not a solution. Pretty sure in all software programs the term ātemplateā is just that. Somewhere to start a project from but not an actual project itself. The template tool was the main reason we upgraded but after loosing hours of work cleaning up duplicated tasks we have abandoned them and like Asana a little less. I really see no benefit in Asanaās version of a template.
The hack sort of defeats the purpose of having a template. The ātemplateā functionality doesnāt seem to do anything that couldnāt be done by saving a project with the name āTemplateā, which we used to do. I was very excited to see Template functionality added as I (wrongfully) assumed this was just the problem it was intended to solve! I canāt tell that there is any difference between a template and a project.
Please do consider it. A template is only useful if, as @Antony_OBrien and @Jan_Hanson mentioned, it does something different than just copying an older project. The word ātemplateā should involve ābeing ready to be used to create tasks but not actually existing as tasks to be done until you use itā, otherwise it is not a template, it is just a project you leave there to be copied when you need. Having everlasting incomplete tasks on āmy tasksā, even if they are collapsed, defeat the purpose. Project templates are important, we need them, but this problem does not let us use them.
Hello there, is there any update on this issue? I have same problem and now i want to create some templates, but i have same issue.
Thanks.
The workaround of moving ātemplate tasksā to ālaterā to avoid the problem of people having My Tasks cluttered with non-tasks from templates doesnāt work well for us because
A year later and still not being addressed or acknowledged. Disappointing.
Agreed Daniel - we use templates extensively and having them clutter our tasks makes Asana difficult. Weāre using duct tape solutions to get around it.
Has there been any update on this? Iām trying to advocate for using Asana exclusively; however, being assigned a templated task in our my tasks before they are real actionable items makes the template feature completely useless to us. What update can you give us?
Im using Instagantt to create timelines on templates in my account. The templates show in the project list as well. With that said, since the template has preassigned people attached to certain tasks, the template timeline and responsibilities show up in the ādaily task listā even tho they are for a template, and not a real project.
Is there a way to omit template timelines from Task view?
Hi,
This is something people have been complaining a lot in the community. @Marie will be able to merge your thread with the existing one so you can vote on it!
Bastien