My team using Asana would love the feature of being able to mark a field as “mandatory to complete” before the task is able to be “Completed”.
We are trying to track different data points using a custom field in one of our projects, and many members are having difficulty remembering to fill out this field before completing the task.
It would be helpful to have a “required field” red box appear around the blank field when they press completed, just like the messages and box that appears when you leave a required field blank when filling out credit card information online. I would love to be able to have a check box to indicate if a field is a required field when adding a new custom field.
@Kimberlea - our team is also looking for a solution to this problem. Do you know of anything in the works or a possible workaround to make this happen? We essentially need a required field to be filled in before the task can be marked complete. Any ideas?
Workarounds I could think of would be either using the required fields on forms and mapping them to individual custom fields in the task submission (but it might not work for each particular use case) or using automation and rules to note if a task is completed, update this custom field to finished and move to completed section in project
It really comes down to your company’s Asana best practices. We all forget sometimes, but seeing my teammates ping me and comment, “Is this person Confirmed? Can you update the field?” helps me to be aware and stay on top of things.
Thanks Kimberlea. We’re currently using the manual method of teammate reminders, however our fear is that this isn’t scale-able long term as our organization continues to grow. We’re hoping Asana will develop a solution of required fields within tasks in the near future.
As an Ambassador in Asana Together, I’ve gone ahead and submitted your request through our Voice of the Community program for our product team. Thank you
I second the motion for this functionality - working in construction it’s important for our workers to upload finished photos before they can complete a task so we can track progress without having to be on site. Helps catch errors before the customer does. That and filling in a custom text field would be great
It also looks like the below forum post is a request for the same feature, making a custom field mandatory/required to fill out before a task can be marked complete. Can you merge these posts and votes? Mandatory Custom Fields Filling
Hi @anon86287507, I don’t have any update on this topic at the moment. Mandatory Custom Fields Filling is slightly different as it relates to filling all custom fields before a task can be added to a project - while in your case, you need all custom fields to be filled before marking the task complete, which is slightly different - so I’ll keep them separate for now
I’ll make sure to keep you posted as soon as I have some news on this topic, thanks again for sharing your feedback with us!
Thank you for the response, Marie! Got it, my mistake.
To clarify this feature request, I want to mark one or more fields as mandatory to be filled out before a task can be marked complete, not all custom fields. I would want some custom fields to remain optional.
This is super important to me as an Operations Manager. I need to wrangle a lot of cats and not everyone is so quick to adjust to a new process. Being able to mark certain fields as ‘required’ would enhance accuracy, reduce risk, and save a lot of time chasing people down for missing information. Great suggestion, please consider this!
Not yet, and I don’t believe this is on the roadmap either Asana has an “open” philosophy, and does not have much features around locking down part of the tool for people…
This would be really useful for us. Many developers forget to specify a resolution when closing tickets which makes tracking this as a data point very difficult
To kinda solve this situation, our tool Asana Pulse allows you to define custom searches + expected result. The tool will run those searches everyday and compare the number of results to the expected. For example you could say you expect 0 tickets completed without a positive point value, and the tool would inform you every day.
Is it possible to create fields that are mandatory to fill in before you can mark a task complete?
We have several tasks that “Mr. another person” always forgets to fill in the required text in fields and they complete the task with missing field description. We are trying to integrate it, but it would be nice to not be able to complet the task before this was executed, everybody will quickly learn the reason why they cant complete the task, and fill in the required field text.
Asana has an “open” philosophy, and does not have much features around locking down part of the tool for people…