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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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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@Phil_Seeman – is this something Flowsana could accomplish?
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Thanks for your help!
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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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It’s been 5 years since this was submitted and still doesn’t look like it’s on the product roadmap… Like others in this thread have suggested, simply rolling out the “skip weekends” feature that’s available in other places would be EXTREMELY helpful (and feels like a reasonable enough ask). We have a number of tasks/subtasks being created by automations that will end up being scheduled for a Saturday or Sunday because of this gap in functionality.
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I think I spoke too soon yesterday! I am unsure if it’s possible to skip weekends everywhere, but it appears to be possible in more places than I thought (I have enterprise, YMMV)
- Using relative dates in a project template, there’s an option to skip weekends when a project is created from that template (miraculously for this one, even when using a rule to convert a task into a project using the template!)
- It’s also possible to set a whole project to use an alternate schedule. It’s just… mostly hidden
In the list view, use the down caret to the right of the project title, and choose “manage dependencies”. In the resulting menu, at the bottom, choose “project settings” under “work schedule” and you can then choose among “business days (M-F)”, “every day”, and “custom” (which lets you select whichever days-of-the-week you want). - I don’t know if this will be universally respected in asana, or if rules will ignore it sometimes the way they ignore project template settings. But it’s something, at least
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Ugh, didn’t mean to hit submit – one other thing to note is that, in list view of a project, if you click on a due date for a task in a dependency chain, you’ll see a note that says “project dependency is
currently set to…”. There you can open the buffer settings and you’ll get a menu that looks almost exactly like the menu I referred to above, except it doesn’t have the work schedule part at the bottom. I believe this is what confused me