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New navigation in Asana

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Asana’s new navigation helps you find your work faster by grouping tools by the type of work you are doing. It organizes the interface into clear modes so it is easier to move between planning, doing work, building processes, capturing knowledge, and understanding your organization.

Here's an example of how the new navigation looks:

Previously, all features lived in a single sidebar. That made powerful tools harder to find. This new navigation introduces dedicated spaces for different work contexts. This keeps the interface focused while still giving you access to everything you rely on in Asana.

Here's an example of how the previous navigation looked:

Your work itself does not change. Modes are an organizing layer over the same connected data you already have. Your tasks, projects, goals, and processes stay exactly as connected as before.

Find your work

You will see new sections in the left sidebar. These group related tools so you can stay oriented. 

Work

In this section, you will find Home, Inbox, My tasks, project and portfolios. This section is dedicated to focusing on tasks and getting work done.

Agents

In this section, you will find AI Teammates, along with the core building blocks of managing workflows including, status update templates, custom fields, rules, forms, task types, and bundles. This section is dedicated to designing, deploying, and managing the processes and AI that power your organization at scale.

Strategy

In this section, you will find goalsyour recent and starred goals, workload views, capacity plans, and reporting. This section is dedicated to monitoring and defining company strategy.

Knowledge

In this section, you will find Pages and Meetings. This section is dedicated to capturing and organizing information in Asana and connecting it to the work that gets it done.

  • Pages: Write, share, and collaborate on written knowledge connected to your team's work.
  • Meetings: Turn meetings into the action items and context that keep work moving

Company

In this section, you will find teams and user profiles. This section is dedicated to understanding what's important to the teams and people throughout your organization.

Additional Asana products

Asana is releasing several new products over the coming months. You'll find them listed under More in the sidebar:

  • Asana Client Management: For teams delivering client work
  • Asana Service Management: For service teams like IT, HR, facilities, and legal
  • Command by Asana: For developer teams
  • StackAI by Asana: For building and running critical workflows

For products that haven't been released yet, you can join the waitlist to be notified when they become available.

Once your organization has access to one of these products, it appears as its own section in your sidebar alongside your existing modes, so you can move between them without switching tools. Your existing projects, tasks, and goals are unaffected.

Selecting StackAI by Asana opens the StackAI platform in a new tab.

Starred in the new navigation

All starred content can be found in the individual tab it’s associated with. 

  • Starred projects and portfolios can be found in Work 
  • Starred project templates, custom fields, rules, forms, and bundles can be found in Agents 
  • Starred goals, dashboards, capacity plans, and workload views can be found in Strategy 
  • Starred pages and meetings can be found in Knowledge
  • Starred teams and user profiles can be found in Company
  • Starred searches appear in every mode

Visibility

You will only see what you have access to. For example:

  • Project templates: You can only see project templates from the teams that you are invited to 
  • Custom fields: Users who are field admins, editors, or users will see the fields they have been given access to 
  • Rules: Users can see rules in the index if they are rule owners or members of projects where the rules are configured. Users can only edit rules that are configured in projects where they have admins or editors permissions.
  • Forms: Forms have a unique access model. Forms that are in private projects aren’t visible to users unless they have been invited to submit the form. After a user has seen a form it’ll be available in the list of forms. The user can only deactivate or delete the form if they have edit/admin access to the project the form is associated with.  
  • Bundles: Users can see bundles where they have user, editor, or bundle admin. Only users with admin or editor permissions can edit bundles. If a bundle is private to its members, only users who have access to that bundle can see it in their list.

Customization

You can change which sections appear in your sidebar and the order they appear in.

  1. In the left sidebar, click More
  2. Select Customize navigation
  3. Drag sections to reorder them, or turn off the sections you don't need. Some sections can't be turned off.

If you turn off a section, you can always find it again in the “More” menu.

These settings apply only to your own sidebar. They don't change what your teammates see, and they don't affect anyone's access to the features themselves.


  

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