Recurring task retains 'task progress' and limited scheduling options

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#1

We’re creating a lot of recurring tasks and have two pain points:

  1. Task Progress is retained when the new recurrance is created, basically everything says “Done” on the new instance of the task

  2. Our business operates on a 4-wk, 4-wk, 5-wk quarter, so quarterly tasks are due every 13 wks…would be great if the custom recurrance wasn’t limited to a max of 12 wks. I feel like this recently changed as I was creating recurring tasks 6-8 wks ago and the options looked different. Anything to continue expanding flexibility in scheduling recurrances would be of great value!

#2

For 1. Are you referring to custom fields?

#3

No, it’s the Asana-Created field, Task Progress

#4

@Shannon_Masterson technically the Asana-created object you are referring to is indeed a Custom Field.

If I understand your issue, one thing you can do is set a rule so that when a new task (ones created when a recurring task is completed as well) the Task Progress is set to “blank”.

As for the flexibility with recurring tasks, I would suggest upvoting this post: Recurring Tasks on certain day/week of month not the actual day

I believe this thread aligns with your request. Including a 13th week would be the same as setting the recurrence to every 3 months IF you could select specific days of the week. Currently with the monthly recurrence you can’t control whether the task falls on a work day or not which is specifically what the other thread targets.

Also, yeah, the date picker changed a bit but I don’t believe any functionality was taken away.

@Emily_Roman might also merge your post with the thread I mentioned above if she agrees the request is similar enough.

Hope this helps!

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#5

@Marie I could have sworn this was working before but I’m finding several of my Rules like this currently are not. These Rules trigger when a new task is added to a project, but the catch is the new tasks created stem from completed recurring tasks. I have actions set to change Custom Fields to default values when new tasks are created from completed recurring tasks. Any idea why this wouldn’t be working at the moment?

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#6

Hi @Jerod_Hillard, sorry I haven’t got around to respond to this today, I’ve a follow-up task to look into this tomorrow :slight_smile:

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