This would be huge for us to be directly in Asana!! In the meantime, @Phil_Seeman 's Flowsana has saved us with this functionality, as this is a dire need for us!
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+1 for this idea! Still hoping to see the ability to enable specific calendars so we can set rules for business days in our regions.
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Wondering how this has been a request for 5+ years now but Asana still hasn’t implemented? Would LOVE to exclude weekends in templates & subtasks
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There are lots of possible reason, if you are curious you can read this piece giving unofficial reasons 🦄 If Wishes Were Unicorns: Why Asana Might Not Have Implemented that Feature Request (and other thoughts about Asana feature development and product strategy)
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Hello everybody,
I’m using relative due dates for Subtask but I need to exclude in the calculation (+2 days from the creation of the task) Saturday and Sunday that are not working day in my company.
Can someone help me on this matter?
Thank you so much,
Silvia
Hi @Silvia_Brovelli , unfortunately this is not currently possible and is something I’m hoping that Asana will eventually implement.
It is however available by using a 3rd party integration called Flowsana.net which does a ton of other automations as well.
I also added ‘rule actions’ in the topic title, assuming that is what you are referring to.
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Thank you so much Richard, you have been so kind to answer so quickly to my question. Let’s keep update 
Silvia
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My pleasure, @Silvia_Brovelli
Seconded. Weekends aren’t relevant for our work dates, so rules with relevant due dates that end up including weekend days require additional cleanup / management. It would save a ton of time and confusion if weekends could be avoided (and that should probably be the default).
UP! Hello everyone, I’m facing the same problem, the rules i created is considering holidays and weekends. Does anyone knows how to dodge this problem?
For ASANA: This update seems to be simple to be fixed… you only need the weekend and holiday dates in a database and then match with the Time Zone of the project and set the rules to avoid this dates…
@Renan_Biella_de_Souz It might be a bit more work than you lay it out to be. Actually, the article @Bastien_Siebman linked in the reply above yours may give some insight into that. 
Also, I see it has been marked “considered”, which makes it likely it will be addressed.
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Any update 5 years later?
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Other companies’ project management tools allow you to set up multiple calendars at the same time.
However, recently, there has been a trend towards more flexible working styles, and people are no longer limited to working during the day from Monday to Friday.
For example, working hours may be from early in the morning until noon. So it would be difficult to have a uniform schedule. Another familiar example is that there are many organizations where Tuesday and Wednesday are holidays. Also, power plants are open all the time.
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I agree, just like timezones it doesn’t make sense anymore for a lot of companies… Adding those as an option is always a possibility of course.
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Thrided. We want to use this to track productivity metrics. Having weekends and included does not allow us to do this. Dev starts a task on friday, and finishes on monday, that should be 1 day of time spent.
@Phil_Seeman – is this something Flowsana could accomplish?
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Thanks for your help!
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Hi all, is there a feature request for this? I’d like to vote and follow
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It’s been more than five years now. and, honestly, this feels less like a feature that we’re asking for and more like a bug we’re reporting. Again, for more than five years. I understand that different places have different workweeks, and different holiday schedules. But that should be something that can be input by the user, and worked around. It’s doable in project templates, there is no good reason it hasn’t been doable in projects themselves for moving dependent tasks
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