Hey Asana enthusiasts! Asana’s September 2024 update is a productivity powerhouse, packed with features designed to streamline your workflow and boost collaboration. From AI-powered tools that make commenting and sharing a breeze, to enhanced portfolio management and customizable notifications. Whether you’re leading a large team or tackling projects solo, Asana’s latest innovations will help you stay focused, organized, and on track. Dive deeper into his release and discover how Asana is transforming the way we work.

Add bulk comments with AI chat

Asana’s “Add bulk comments with AI chat” feature introduces a powerful new way to streamline communication across multiple tasks. Harnessing the capabilities of AI chat, users can efficiently follow up on and add comments to a batch of tasks simultaneously. This intelligent tool allows for crafting tailored comments for each task, ensuring contextually relevant communication while saving significant time and effort.

Asana’s AI chat itself is an advanced conversational AI assistant integrated into the platform. It’s designed to understand natural language and context, empowering users to interact with it in a conversational manner. This versatile tool can assist with various tasks, from generating summaries and providing insights to drafting messages and brainstorming ideas.

Copy and Paste the dashboard Charts

In this month’s update, Asana introduces a seamless way to share insights beyond the platform with the “Copy and paste dashboard charts” feature. Users can now effortlessly copy charts directly from their Asana dashboards and paste them into external applications like presentation software or documents. This eliminates the need for manual recreation or screenshots, ensuring data visualization remains consistent and professional when sharing project progress or performance metrics with stakeholders outside of Asana.

Sharable project summaries

Asana’s sharable project summaries feature introduces a new level of transparency and communication. Leveraging AI, project summaries can now be automatically generated and shared as a project message, providing stakeholders with a concise overview of project progress, key milestones, and potential roadblocks. This streamlined approach to sharing project insights fosters collaboration and ensures everyone remains aligned, even those who may not be actively involved in day-to-day tasks.

Create status update from Smart Summary.

In Asana you can create status updates from its AI feature Smart Summary. This feature streamlines project communications by allowing you to effortlessly draft status updates based on the insights captured in the project’s Smart Summary. This integration saves time and ensures that status updates accurately reflect the current project landscape, highlighting key milestones, potential risks, and overall progress, all without the need to manually compile information from various sources.

Portfolio Archiving

Asana’s Portfolio Archiving feature empowers users to maintain a clutter-free focused workspace by archiving inactive portfolios. This action effectively removes completed or outdated portfolios from the main view, ensuring users can concentrate on current and ongoing work. However, archived portfolios remain accessible for future reference or analysis, preserving historical data while promoting a streamlined and efficient workspace.

Customizable Portfolio Notifications

With customizable portfolio notifications, it puts you in control of their information flow. Users can now tailor the types of notifications they receive and specify the portfolios from which these notifications originate. This enhanced granularity ensures users stay informed about critical updates without being overwhelmed by irrelevant information, ultimately promoting a more focused and productive work environment.

Deleting allocations in the Capacity Plan

Asana’s enhanced capacity planning now allows the streamlined removal of user allocations within specific projects. With this update, project managers can efficiently delete all of the user’s assigned allocations on a particular project within the capacity plan, ensuring resource allocation remains accurate and up-to-date, particularly in dynamic project environments where team member availability or project scopes may change.

Rules based on approval or milestones task type

Asana’s enhanced automation capabilities now allow for the creation of rules based on whether a task is an approval or a milestone. This granular control empowers teams to build more sophisticated and contextually relevant workflows, triggering specific actions or notifications based on the critical nature of these task types. For instance, project managers can automatically assign tasks or send reminders when approval is pending or a milestone is approaching, promoting proactive project management and ensuring the timely completion of key deliverables.

Roll-up function in formula custom fields

Asana’s introduction of the roll-up function in formula custom fields enhances data aggregation and tackling capabilities. This feature enables users to consolidate data across projects and portfolios, automatically calculating sums, averages, or other metrics based on specific criteria. This empowers teams to gain a comprehensive overview of progress and resource allocation, facilitating more informed decision-making and proactive project management.

Automated license assignment in divisions

Asana’s automated license assignment in divisions features streamlined collaboration across organizational boundaries. By automating license assignments within divisions, teams can seamlessly work together on projects, portfolios, goals, and reports without the concern of incurring duplicate billing. This enhancement fosters cross-divisional collaboration, promoting efficient resource sharing and a unified approach to project management, while ensuring cost-effectiveness and eliminating administrative overhead.

Proactive AI admin toggle

Asana’s proactive AI admin toggle provides administrators with greater control over AI-generated recommendations within their organization. Through a simple admin console toggle, administrators can enable or disable these recommendations, tailoring the AI assistance to their specific needs and preferences. This empowers organizations to strike the right balance between leveraging AI for efficiency gains and maintaining control over their workflows, ensuring the technology aligns with their unique work styles and organizational culture.

Team content permissions for team admins

Asana’s team content permission for team admins’ enhancement reinforces control over information sharing within teams. Team administrators now can define who can create and share content within their team’s workspace. This granular control ensures sensitive or confidential information remains protected, while still fostering collaboration and communication among authorized team members. This update promotes a more secure and organized team environment by establishing clear boundaries for content creation and sharing.

Enable HIPAA in the Enterprise+ domain

Asana’s update introduces critical features for healthcare organizations, enabling HIPAA compliance directly through the domain console for Enterprise+ domains. This streamlined process allows organizations to establish the necessary safeguards and controls to protect sensitive patient health information, ensuring adherence to stringent HIPAA regulations and fostering trust in patients and stakeholders.

Mobile home needs your attention widget for Android

Asana’s Android app now features a “needs your attention” widget, providing users with a quick and convenient overview of critical tasks and notifications directly from their mobile home screen. This proactive tool helps users stay on top of their most pressing priorities, enabling them to quickly identify and address important items across various Asana projects without even opening the app, promoting a more responsive and efficient workflow even on the go.

Home customization in Android

Asana’s Android app now offers enhanced personalization with a “Home customization” feature. Users can tailor their mobile home screen experience to their specific needs and preferences, rearranging widgets, prioritizing projects, and highlighting key information. This empowers users to create a streamlined and efficient mobile workspace that aligns with their workflows and priorities, promoting productivity and focus even on the go.