Visibility of all Recurring tasks

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Okay, this is a bit frustrating.

This is an EXTREMELY important feature to add to Asana. My organization just got set up on Asana, and as we were setting up recurring tasks for all of the support staff and executive meetings, we realized that only the next occurrence shows, and that the one following only shows once the last one has been completed.

Our company is large, and spread between two states, and being able to see our FULL calendar at all times for scheduling meetings and projects is imperative to our functioning as an organization. We just subscribed for 10 seats for our support staff and upper management and this has put us in a position where we may not be able to actually use Asana due to this issue.

I highly recommend this is addressed and at least the option given for those who need it, or I am certain you will loose customers who absolutely need this feature.

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Please provide an update on when this feature will be released

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This is a joke! This is basically the whole point of a project management software. I cannot believe I have wasted hours getting all setup and spending the money to upgrade to the premium version for this feature not to exist. How utterly ridiculous - how hard can it be to show tasks on a recurring nature like google calendar does - seriously!!?

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I have set up recurring tasks for members of my team. But I want to be able to see all instances of them (not only once one has been completed). Is there any way around this? Apart from having to set up the same task hundreds of times just so it plots on to the calendar for visibility.

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@natalia.benamor No sorry not that I have seen. It only repeats the task on completion.

Jason.

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Hi folks, we already have a thread on this topic, so I’ve gone ahead and merged this post to consolidate feedback on this topic!

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Since my first post I have tested 30+ more tools trying to find this feature which non of them have. I have just stumbled across a forum thread like this and think I may of found one that does!!

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I am going to give them a try but would rather stay with Asana.

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Dear Marie, if you want to have a benchmark for how smart it can be done, then look no further than the functionality of Google Goals in their calendar. They add events to the calender, which can be automoved around to find space and which lets you track progress on a goal such as Bicycle daily, walk the dogs weekly, Buy a present for your wife bi weekly, etc.
Yours sincerely
Peter M .

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Hi @Peter_Michael_Majgaa and welcome to the Forum!

Thanks for sharing Google Goals on this thread, it ties up with a lot of Asana values! If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this video in which our CEO explains our vision for the next few years, it is very in line with what Google Goals does :slight_smile:

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Hi, is there a way to set a recurring task to show due at a certain cadence? Similar to setting a recurring meeting or event through google calendar, can I set a task to show due every couple of weeks?

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Hi @Allie_Cerone and welcome to the Forum!

As it stands this is not possible since new recurring tasks are only generated once the initial task is marked complete. I’ve gone ahead and moved your post to this existing #productfeedback thread which covers exactly this topic; if you haven’t yet, I’d highly recommend you to add your vote at the top of this thread!

Hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else I can help with!

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I also found this annoying! The workaround I found was saving the task and uploading it to Google calendar - and then duplicating the calendar entry. This also allows you to set start and end-dates, something I can’t easily do as a non-paying Asana user. Hope this helps!!

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+1 This function is important to me as well.

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would love this feature as I have many reoccurring tasks each week - would help for planning my week ahead. I like to layout my whole month at the beginning and its impossible when you cannot see reoccurring tasks.

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Agree 100% We need to see repeated/recurring task all at once in calendar view. Helps with planning.

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This feature would be very helpful for our team as well! We were excited to begin managing our whole team’s capacity on a daily/weekly basis but without the ability to include meeting time via recurring tasks, we can’t get a clear picture of who has too much/too little work.

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Hi! New client, please count me in to what seems to be a long list (and years old…) of users for whom this feature seemed a no-brainer element to Asana before we signed on to be clients. Surprised it doesn’t exist, to say the least - seems like it would be an easy thing to implement.

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Came here to find answers to this question and t’s pretty disappointing that this thread is over two years old and there hasn’t been an update or a proper solution.

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My team also really needs this functionality to effectively track and project recurring tasks. I agree that it’s disappointing that this hasn’t been prioritized for development despite the long thread of users who have been requesting this feature for years.

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Okay…
Basically I read through all of the notes/suggestions/complaints.
There are TWO years worth… um, Hello! That should give you a hint, Asana!

I was flabbergasted that with all of the ways to view things, the individual options, color coding, etc., that you can’t simply set up any reoccurring tasks. It is simply illogical, that this has not been made a feature (which literally everyone else has).

I am the DOO, for a 24/7 business, in the healthcare industry. I have reoccurring tasks and meetings, on-call shifts, plus unique assessments, marketing, webinars, phone conferences, training, and other meetings, etc. (Just like everyone else, in the thread!)

My team is in my calendar, so that they can schedule things for me, when I have time available… do you see the issue?

Booking me at a marketing event in three months, when I am sponsoring something… could be put where I already have another reoccurring task that is, for all intents and purposes, invisible, is a real possibility… because someone in tech thinks its too much work, not something they personally have an issue with, etc.

Make it a premium feature, if you need to, but for God’s sake make the calendar work correctly, please.

Geesh!

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