This request is over 5 years old and ranks 4th on the feedback requests with the most comments. This type of deadline is crucial for tasks that recur on a monthly basis. Please add this feature!
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The absence of this task really makes it difficult to utilize Asana for my work. Seeing this feature linger for as long as it has with this many comments feels very discouraging.
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Upvoting the need to have a way to set recurring day/week of month functionality. Current Asana options still donāt allow us the ability choose the 4th Friday (as an example) of every month, only āxā amount of days after a monthly task or an actual numbered day (1-31) of the month which doesnāt fall on Friday of every month. Please integrate this into Asana.
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This functionality is ESSENTIAL.
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I may as well drop my comment into the apparently bottomless void that is this request thread. Over five years and hundreds of requests begging for the most basic functionality. Itās truly bewildering and beyond frustrating. How does the Asana organization schedule its own recurring monthly meetings amongst staff? Are meetings scheduled on the 13th day of every month?? Or do you resort to using a different/better tool than your own product to schedule monthly recurring tasks?
Lots of folks are paying for functionality and features that Asana claims to offer, which is rendered completely useless without this basic ability to properly schedule tasks. As a solo freelancer without any employees, Iām already forced to pay for 2 seats to use Premium features becauseā¦ reasons?? The only way to currently get this basic functionality is by paying a third party TWICE as much as an entire additional seat of Asana! While I respect the effort and ingenuity to develop a solution, I echo the resentment other users have expressed for this request to have been ignored for so long. A developer in this forum has been able to create a tool that does exactly what weāre requestingā¦ why on earth has this not been implemented?
The only responses Iāve seen from Asana on this matter are the very kind and cheery customer service reps and ambassadors merging the constant requests for this feature into one thread, or saying that there are no updates. At the very least, as paying customers, I think itās fair to expect some transparency and dialogue on this issue.
Please help this community understand what technical or other challenges are preventing the implementation of this basic functionality that is baked into nearly every scheduling or productivity software known to man. I am not a software developer, so please inform and help me understand why this feature is apparently too difficult for Asana to implement.
This thread is nearly as old as my 1st grader, who is reading chapter books and doing basic algebraā¦ I cannot understand why this has not been implemented. I donāt need 12 different types of graphs and charts to look at how many tasks Iāve completed. I just need to be able to create a task that occurs consistently on the third Wednesday of every month.
If I truly believed anyone on the product development team actually reads these, I would try and tone down my sarcasm and frustration. But the reality is, nearly five years of polite requests have not the moved the needle on this. I apologize if my rant has offended anyone.
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Lack of this feature is the reason Iām considering leaving Asana. At its core, this is task management software. If we arenāt able to assign due dates in the way we need to, we need to look elsewhere. Itās appalling that there has been NO response whatsoever after this many years.
Anyone have insight on a good alternative to Asana?
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Truly unbelievable that they havenāt fixed this.
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I see on the weekly option you can choose Sunday through Saturday on your options, but there is no option to do this on the monthly view. It would be helpful if we could choose recurring monthly on the first Wednesday of each month.
Is this feature in the works?
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We built a tool to create real recurring tasks and we have more patterns if you are interested: every business day, every calendar day, every Monday-Tuesdayā¦, every 7-14 days, every 3 months, every 1st-2nd-3rdā¦ day of the month, every 1st-2nd-3rdā¦ business day of the month. We can add more patterns as well.
I have also merged your post into an existing feedback request thread so you might wanna upvote there too @Jim_Pederson
The current option for repeating tasks for monthly repetitions is only for the day of the month (1-31). It would be great to be able to repeat tasks for a certain week of the month, for example, the first, second, last Friday of the month.
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Hi,
I created a tool to generate real recurring tasks, so if the tool is a good solution for you I could add those patterns.
Yes, please!!! Is there any updated on this? Itās been six years!
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+1
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+1 for me as well. Very important feature to add.
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Cant believe this has been requested for the last 6 yearsā¦ It is such a basic need for a project management systemā¦ We JUST moved our whole company to the platform and we LOVE it for all the amazing features it does have, but it is a shame we canāt use this feature. It makes it impossible to schedule weekly tasks for the days of the week.
Please, please let us know this is a priority for Asana to add soon!
Also, what TeamWork did better, was to have the ability to add a task list and pick the start or end date for all the rest of the dates to populate relative to. Not being limited to the date the task was created. You could also choose to skip weekends when populating the task template. These two things would be amazing to add as well!
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To add, I do not want a third-party app I also have to pay for to accomplish a basic function of a project management tool. I understand this tool is used globally and there are different holidays, etc, but you should also be able to build this out and load your own holiday schedule in the system to drive this.
Please work on this.
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So, let me get this right-- itās not possible to create a task to reoccur every 3rd Monday of the month? Or 1st Tuesday of the month? This is so basicā¦
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Just chiming in to say that I find it hard to believe that this feature still hasnāt been added. Other tools had this feature more than a decade ago.
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