Timeline

Timeline is a beautiful, living view of how your work fits together that helps you start projects on the right foot, and hit your deadlines. With Timeline, you can create a project plan that shows how all of the pieces of your project fit together, share plans to get buy in and give everyone confidence that your team will deliver on time, and adapt your plan as problems arise and work inevitably changes to keep your project on track.

Viewing your project on a Timeline

You can view any project that you have in Asana in Timeline view.

Subtasks do not automatically inherit the project or assignee from their parent tasks. You need to manually add a subtask to a project and add a due date/date range in order for it to appear in the project’s Timeline

You can also hide your unscheduled tasks bar by clicking the Unscheduled toggle icon on your project toolbar.

Scheduling tasks on your Timeline

To move tasks from Unscheduled Tasks and onto your Timeline, you can drag the task from the unscheduled bucket onto the correct dates on your Timeline, or click back into your list or board view and add a due date or date range to that task. Once the task has a due date, it will appear on your Timeline.

Create a new task on your Timeline

To create a new task from your Timeline, you can click directly on your Timeline on the date that you’d like to schedule the task and type in the name of your task. You can then click into the task’s details to add additional information and assign to the appropriate person, and the task will appear directly on your Timeline as well as in your list or board view.

Setting colors on your Timeline

The best way to set colors on Timeline is to create custom fields and set colors for each field. Then, when you set a custom field value on tasks, that color can be viewed on your Timeline.

You can choose “Asana Default”, which pulls from other colors you have set in Asana, or you can set your color logic based on custom fields. Once you’ve chosen which custom field you’d like to use, you can save that view for everyone, so your entire team will see the same color logic when they view the project in Timeline.

Dependencies on your Timeline

You can set dependencies directly on your Timeline by clicking the connector icon that appears when hovering over a task and then dragging to another task.

If the tasks in your project are dependent on others, they will show as connected on your Timeline.

Zooming on your Timeline

Sharing your Timeline

Anyone with access to your project will have access to the project’s Timeline. If you’d like to share a Timeline with someone in your company, you can send them the link to your project’s Timeline if the project is public by copying the URL. Alternatively, add them as a follower to tasks in your project if the project is private.

Sections on your Timeline

Sections add a new level of categorization to your project plan. You can now view your work your way, share a plan with more visual indicators of task types, and adapt your plan while knowing how tasks are grouped. We’ve added the ability to view your Timeline sections or sort by date.

To add, remove, or reorder Sections in the Timeline, you need to do so from the project list or board view. Once you’ve made changes, your Timeline view will automatically update.

Sorting on Timeline

You can also sort your tasks on Timeline by either start date or due date or Assignee and then save that as your default view.

Once you sort your tasks on Timeline by start date or due date or assignee, the project Sections will disappear. To navigate back to your sections, sort by None.

Subtask count on Timeline

You can also view the amount of subtasks on a particular task directly from your Timeline.

Filtering on Timeline

You can filter your Timeline according to your desired preferences using your project toolbar.

Portfolio Timeline

Please note that we’re gradually rolling out this feature.

Portfolio Timeline is available for all Business and Enterprise customers.

Portfolio Timeline allows you to visualize, share, and adjust how initiatives are sequenced so you can best utilize your resources and hit your deadlines.

Find out more about Portfolio Timeline in the Guide article here.