Author: Phil Seeman

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve written about what’s new in Flowsana – here’s everything that’s been added since my last update post. Plus there’s a little surprise for you – some exciting news about an upcoming hotly-requested feature. Dynamic Duration Workflows​ Previously Flowsana always skipped weekends when calculating and assigning task dates. Now there is a Skip Weekends option; you can uncheck it if you want to include weekend days in your workflow. When you marked…

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Hi all! It’s been several months since I’ve posted any Flowsana updates, so it’s time! Behind the Scenes It’s been a pretty quiet couple of months from a features standpoint, as most of the work during this time has been “under the hood”: Fixing bugs Shoring up the infrastructure to allow for stability and future growth Taking care of “special cases” that have come up (as an example, the “Copy subtasks from a template” rule…

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Announcing a new Forms Support feature in Flowsana! With this set of capabilities, you can do the following: Have an email notification sent to the form submitter You can choose to have form submitters automatically receive an email confirmation, letting them know their submission has been successfully received. The email will contain the contents of their submission; in addition, you have the ability to enter your own desired Subject line, as well as any text you want…

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A new Flowsana update is out, featuring a number of additions that a lot of people have been asking for. Here’s what’s new in this release. Add subtasks from a template Now you can have Flowsana automatically add a predefined set of subtasks to a task based on any available If-Then Rule condition. How this works is that you create a task, in any project, and add a set of subtasks underneath it. This task becomes in…

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We’ve just made two enhancements to the Add Workflow page when creating new Flowsana workflows. Easier searching Previously, when typing into any drop-down field while creating a workflow – this means Projects and Teams, and for rule workflows, Tags, Users, Sections and Custom Fields – Flowsana used a “starts with” search method. That is, you had to type the exact beginning of the value you were wanting to set. It now uses a “contains” search method instead.…

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Flowsana’s billing system was initially based on the total number of Asana users in your organization or workspaces which contained workflow-enabled projects. We call that total your Flowsana “Billable Users” count. We recognized that in many cases, members of an organizational team wanted to take advantage of Flowsana for their team-centered work. It was not practical for them to pay for users in other teams who may not be using Flowsana, or who they should not…

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Just released: lots of new Flowsana features, enhancements, fixes! New workflow type: Hashtag Automation Hashtag Automation allows you to enter and modify fields and elements of a task by using hashtags within the task’s Description field. Specifically, you can use hashtags to enter or modify the following information: The task’s due date The task’s assignee Tags Additional projects Once you’ve enabled hashtag recognition for a project, you use this feature simply by typing a hashtag symbol…

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I’m happy to announce the addition of two new rule actions, and some performance improvements and bug fixes. New rule action: Email Notifications!Users can now receive an email notifying them whenever any rule condition is met. You can get notified when a certain tag is added or removed from a task, when a custom field is set to a particular value, and much more. You can choose to have notifications go to the task’s assignee,…

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What is Flowsana? Flowsana is a service, specifically created for and integrated with Asana, which provides a number of automation capabilities for your Asana projects. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial subscription at https://flowsana.net. More specifically, Flowsana consists of three different types of workflows that you can apply to any of your projects. Auto-Adjust DueDate-Based Workflow This type of workflow is simple: If you change the due date of a task in the…

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