Very well written Larry. Our team often finds itself feeling similar but not able to express it as well as you have!
Asana’s sudden no-warning no-opt out changes are often very frustrating for us too. Whether as small recent things like the color changes, or consistent way back with dashboards suddenly disappearing.
For a company that seems to pride itself on ethics (the motive for the color changes right?) having such a small amount of transparency with customers or freedom for them to choose seems a bit inconsistent. We’d very much appreciate knowing even in broadstroke like Apple’s July 2019 product announcement of the Mac Pro “by the end of 2019”.
This is a nice update! I have a question: how can a company appear in this 10% of users who get this update first? For us, Everhour, it is very important to know about UI updates first or even before end-users, because our browser extension may not be working, we can’t roll out an update, customers are frustrated…
Asana reps claimed to put us on the early adopters list a couple of times before, but it seems not to work at all.
Any help in this matter and to get updates first will be highly appreciated!
Hi @Waclaw_Wolodko, and thanks for your kind words. Have you considered joining our Community program? As part of this program, you could get early access to most new features we’re launching!
We’re currently rolled out to 10% of customers and won’t roll out further until we re-implement Tags, so the full roll-out may take a little longer than usual. Nothing to worry about though - beside the “missing tags” we’re fixing the feedback has been excellent so far
Hi @Mark_Ironside - This update is currently only available to 10% of our customers. We’re working on fixing an issue with tags before rolling it out to more users, so it will take a little longer than planned to reach all customers. I’ll post an update here as soon as we’re ready to move to 25%, 50% and 100% of customers. Stay tuned!
Quick update: Tags are now back in the new My Tasks and we’re gearing up to roll out this update to more customers over the next couple of days! Stay tuned here for more updates!
In general, I’m excited about the possibilities for this new MyTasks view! And I’m very happy tags have been included in this update and that I did not experience this new view without them (mine just updated this morning)!
Unfortunately, the very first thing I have noticed is that we no longer have the ability to get a sum total of number-custom fields in MyTasks. Referring to the black pill popup when multi-selecting tasks. Previously we had the same details provided that we have in projects view, but with this new update, the sum feature is gone. We use this to plan our task assignments and project hours across our entire organization. Having it removed from MyTasks, will be detrimental to our entire daily project planning process since each employee plans their individual bucket of hours for the day and week via this view.
I’ve already had my first frantic communication from one of our employees trying to figure out where this calculation went and asking if they will now have to manually add all these tasks with a calculator. I’m anticipating more as this continues to roll out. Can I assure them that this is a temporary situation and the feature will be added back?
