[Tool] Shift all dates of a project by a number of days

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Hi,

By now you might already know the little tools we put together at iDO.

We just released a new tool called “Date shifter” allowing you to shift all incomplete tasks within a project by a given number of days.

Let me know if it is useful!

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This isn’t useful. It’s stupendously useful!

We frequently need to revise project end dates in projects that contain close to 400 tasks. Just last week, I created an Excel file that I named DueDateRecalculatorTool.xlsx tool to calculate old/new task due dates based on the number of days between the current project due date and the new project due date:

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Then, each task in Asana must be revised manually. Although what you’ve developed does not appear(?) to shift due dates for subtasks, we will gladly adjust those by hand (which in a way makes me happy because it means that my little Excel tool will still be useful!)

Nice work on this!

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Wow amazing if it is already useful. I am note sure about subtasks anymore, I’ll let you check and confirm, I’ll update the wording depending on the answer!

Make sure to run the tool on a duplicate test project first :slight_smile:

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I just tested this. This is something we’ve been needing as well! However, it appears subtasks dates do not shift. Can this be added as an improvement to the tool?

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Good news: the tool now shifts subtasks as well! @Lara_Strain @Reuben_Dismukes

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This is great! I don’t see the ability to skip weekends, however. Will that feature be rolled out in the future or am I missing a step? Thanks!

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I could add the feature indeed. I’ll let you know.
(fyi it will probably be a paid feature of the tool)

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This is amazing! Thanks

I just tried it and my COMPLETED tasks also changed. Is there something wrong ?

thanks :slight_smile:

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Thanks for catching this, when I resolved the issue around subtasks I forgot to carry over this part! :heart: fixed now

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That’s great Bastien, thank you :slight_smile:

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A big thank you to @Lara_Strain who helped identified a bug, the tool was not working correctly if the project had more than 50 tasks. :pray:

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The tool now includes the ability to skip week-ends! (this is a paid feature, accessible with a token, giving you access to all our iDO tools advanced features)

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