This would be such a powerful feature. Voted!
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What is this? Since 2018?
This is sorely lacking and is making me consider going back to ClickUp.
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Same here… It’s a key factor that is missing…
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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.
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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…)
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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
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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
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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
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Has this been resolved/addressed?
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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
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Any updates on this issue?
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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?
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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.
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The codebase has to be such a mess for this to not have been implemented by now…
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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?