Support Date custom field in Advanced Search.

I have Custom Fields from my field library that aren’t showing when I am doing an advanced search. Some are, but not the one I’m looking for isn’t.

Steps to reproduce:
Use advanced search > Filter > Custom Fields

Browser version: Latest Chrome (Mac OS app not showing either)

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Hi Tommy and thanks for flagging that.

What type of field is it please? (ex: “Single-select”, “Date”, “People”…).

And I think we miss your screenshot :grin:

Thanks,

Date

Yea, no screenshot needed lol. Just a field that doesn’t show.

A screenshot of the field please (“Edit page”) would be great.

My custom fields:

Advanced search (typing in Deadline, not showing up)

Hello @Tommy9 and @Arthur_BEGOU :wave:

The new date custom field isn’t supported in Search yet, so I’m moving this thread to the Product Feedback category so you and other community members can support this request.

Hi all,

Good news! People custom fields are now supported in Advanced Search. o add a People Custom field in your Advanced Search, simply follow this path:

+Add filter > Add Custom Field > Select or search for your People custom field

Let us know below if there are any questions :slightly_smiling_face:

I was just about to pull the trigger on manually switching an old custom field into date format, when I realized that date custom fields still aren’t supported in Advanced Search.

(Side note, @Marie can we please reopen this so we can upvote that functionality?
https://forum.asana.com/t/support-date-custom-field-in-advanced-search/374714/7)

It looks like they are supported in Reporting & Dashboards, though, which is great.

If anyone has made this switch and then discovered some necessary part of their Asana workflow that still won’t play with Date custom fields, would you please let me know here? Thanks!

Thank you for adding Date custom fields. Please let us search them.

It would be so wonderful to have a date range for filter and search. I the terms of “next week” and "after today " are just too broad to help me with narrowing down a focus based on a date.

@Rachel_Botts I agree! But this topic is for allowing custom fields of the Date variety to be in Advanced Search – currently they are not available at all.

I thought the two are connected since when you do an advanced search, it engages filters to produce the results.

It is wild to me that this is still not supported. Was it just overlooked somehow? We have date-type custom fields and we can use them in Reporting & dashboards, and that is all fantastic, but we can’t do a simple (or advanced!) search on them.

Two years since date custom fields were introduced and we still cannot search them. Asana, I love you, can you please fix this?

Our client’s organisation uses Asana to manage our end-to-end org-wide workflow. As such, they need ways to be able to run complex reporting to understand where each work item is in the large workflow, specifically by using date custom fields.

More info about the workflow:

Multiple projects, with multihoming
~20 custom fields for different data points
~20 subtasks per work item (which we call a ‘review’)
~20 complex rules per project to move things along with workflow, creation of subtasks at stages etc

We are submitting this feature request on the behalf of our client to ask Asana to pretty please add the ability to sort / filter Advanced Search based on a Date Custom Field, by a date RANGE, and to extend that capability to Projects to be able to filter based on a Date Custom Field RANGE (not just is today, before today etc etc)

Note: we have explored many solutions and workarounds, including the use of Due Date ranges instead of a date custom field, however need to manage multiple dates throughout the workflow and need the ability to have multiple date custom fields

I’ve merged your post into an existing topic where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the purple Vote button. Votes have been transferred.

@Von_Apparatus_Quo, re project filters, please search in English Forum > Product Feedback for a related request and add your vote or add a new topic just about that if not found.

Thanks,

Larry

I have added a new custom field in date format, but when I try and do an advanced search, it does not show up in the ‘recent’ list of custom fields, or in the search.

Is this not supported, or is there something I am doing wrong?

@Rose_Moore, I’ve merged your post into an existing topic where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the purple Vote button.

Thanks,

Larry

I am trying to do an Advanced Search for all tasks assigned to a group of people. When I look at the results I want to include a custom date field that is in the tasks

In the Advanced Search, when I go to ‘Custom Fields’ my field is not available to select.

If I do the search and click the + to add a field to the results, my field is also not available to choose.

The field is part of the library.