This would be such a powerful feature. Voted!
What is this? Since 2018?
This is sorely lacking and is making me consider going back to ClickUp.
Same here… It’s a key factor that is missing…
Hi everyone, the feature you’re looking for is Portfolios. These allow you to add multiple projects (from across teams if you want) and view them as a dashboard or… on the same timeline.
For each project it’ll show you the start thru end date as a bar, then call out milestones below. You can zoom to show weeks / quarters / years etc.
Using it for this purpose right now.
I have the Business plan and added two projects to a Portfolio. It is possible to plot the Timeline, but all I see are the milestones. The tasks of both projects do not appear at the same time. If I click on one of the projects in the Portfolio, I get to see its tasks (but only for that project). I find that this defeats the purpose of a Portfolio Timeline… So don’t upgrade to Business just for this!
The best solution I found was to create an Advanced Search report and view the projects in one calendar (https://help.asana.com/hc/en-us/articles/14074042291995-Search-and-search-views#gl-reports). This way you can see the search results in a single Calendar (still not a Timeline, though…)
The Portfolio Timeline view is a projects-level view, not a detailed view, so that’s why it’s focused on bars for the projects and includes the higher-level Milestones, but not tasks.
A better solution for you could be to multi-home (add to a project) the tasks of both projects into a third project and make the Timeline view there be the default. You can set up a rule to automate the multi-homing.
Thanks,
Larry
Hi Larry,
Thank you for letting me know about the multi-home possibility. Is there a help article that describes how to do this automatically?
Concerning the Portfolio where Milestones are visible but not tasks: I understand the reason behind this, but why not make it such that the customer can decide the level of detail of the Timeline? Both multi-home and Advanced Search are complicated ways to ‘just’ have the timelines of two projects in a single view…
Best wishes,
Sebastian
Your best bet is to go to https://help.asana.com/hc/en-us and type “rules” and read about that. To multi-home all new tasks, you can trigger on something like all tasks added to the project, and make your action be to add the new task to another project (multi-home).
For various reasons (keep the product simpler, easier to develop, test, document, etc.) Asana is pretty stingy with not adding settings. I wish they’d add a few more, but it would be hard to add all the ones everyone wants without the product becoming more complex.
Thanks,
Larry
Has this been resolved/addressed?
This question has been raised 6 years ago. I am surprised that its still not resolved…
We manage multiple projects at the same time, I need to manage my time on them… pls… develop it
Any updates on this issue?
I looked at asana 4 years ago and cannot believe this has not been implemented.
asana has completely failed to listen to feedback from what I would have thought was one of its key target audience.
what else can possibly have been more important, different colors?
Dear Terri, I agree with the many users who were surprised that this feature has not been added in six years. It is a really sore point for all portfolio managers not to see all project tasks and timelines in one place.
The codebase has to be such a mess for this to not have been implemented by now…
Or maybe the Product team feels like it would make the tool harder to use or complicate the interface? My opinion: their first priority should be to create an “optimised” timeline view where tasks can organise themselves nicely, and then and only then consider having bigger timelines with multi-projects.
+1 definitely need a Gantt chart for all projects overview to manage capacity and ressources workload !
Honestly I’m shocked and disappointed this doesn’t exist. How can I effectively manage multiple projects across an entire yearly program when I can’t see a combined Gantt? If not added, we’ll be moving off the platform by the end of the year which is too bad as I have been enjoying it (and we use the paid version).
I’m working on a major initiative and being able to expand and view tasks within a project at the portfolio level is imperative. Monday.com has this capability, why doesn’t Asana?