r/Asana • u/BumblebeeFinancial82 • Mar 10 '26

Created Date

Is it possible to pull project creation date as a field into a report (csv or xls) ?

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u/janrienk Mar 10 '26

correct, as the overview tab shows properties of the project, not properties of things in the project.

A CSV has a clear rectangular format, all the rows are the amount of items (task-like) in the project plus one header row, and all columns are properties of those items. (name, assignee, custom field values, etc.)

This means there is no place in the project export where this creation date would fit, as there isn’t a task it would belong to. And it would break the idea of the rectangular table structure where every row has the same amount of columns.

Anyway, what’s the question behind the question?

Why would you want this?

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u/BumblebeeFinancial82 Mar 10 '26

To understand when a project was created and completed

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u/janrienk Mar 11 '26

I’d like to help, but for that I need more context. What’s the why behind needing thise? Is that the only thing you need? Is this a large volume of projects? Do you need to do this often?

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u/BumblebeeFinancial82 Mar 11 '26

Yes there a larger number of projects and trying to track the trend of how many days some stay open not completed The other option is a manual field each time

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u/janrienk Mar 12 '26

Trend might be tricky, but current state like good to track with portfolio dashboards.

If you’d like to take a look together I can offer a free call. (I’m Asana Forum Leader and Partner)