Hi all! This is my first post to the community. Does anyone have a suggestion/workaround for setting up a custom field that should be a date? Here’s what I’m trying to do… I want to use Asana for Accounts Receivable collection. The project is A/R Collection and each invoice will be a task within t…

Sounds pretty nifty! I would just suggest adding a custom field for text. Original Invoice Date: 3/17/17 Date of Last Contact: 1/7/17 And just have whomever responsible for that invoice update it like that. There shouldn’t be any limit on that custom field (for a numerical field they won’t allow …

[image] Caisha: Sounds pretty nifty! I would just suggest adding a custom field for text. While this is a workaround, it is painstaking to type out the entire date. We use this for support tickets that come in. Having a “Last Updated” custom field would be incredibly useful. Using a text cust…

Agree with comments. A real need for more data types in custom fields. When users are inputting data in the wrong format accidentally, it significantly hinders the power of Asana’s searching functionality. We really need custom fields.

If you have this problem, please vote for the feature here: [image] DATE - Custom Field Type 🚀 Features Launched What do you think about adding new field type “Date”? I’d like to have “Start Date” and “End Date” for tasks and currently I am using “Text” field for that whic…

Three years so far and ASANA can’t seem to figure out how to allow a custom date field or a custom calculated field. Is anyone monitoring this forum?

@asan what is your solution for accounting that needs Invoice Date and Paid Date?

Using a Date Custom Field

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Using a Date Custom Field

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