I have a couple of setups with a chain of dependent tasks. For example, when someone is creating an email, I have a set of tasks where once they complete the draft, it goes to other people for review, and those tasks are set up with dependencies. Because of the volume of notifications that Asana ge…

Hi @Brian_Fewell , I’m glad to inform you that this can be done with current functionality. :slight_smile: What you can do is set up a rule that fires “when a task is no longer blocked” and adds a comment that includes task assignee as a variable Something like this: [image] Furthermore I’d ad…

That should work—can I set up the rule to apply at the organization level, or do I need to create it separately on each project?

▶ ⚠️ Before you look at my answer to this I urge you to reconsider your plan. What is your real problem? Is it that you can't filter by looking for at-mentions, or the fact that you have so many notifications that you need to? Can you target the source of these notifications? Adding this rule everywh…

Agree, I’m not committed to it—I know it does add another notification, since the regular “this task is no longer blocked” notification would still go out, & it might create more problems than it solves. I’ll see what makes sense & see if we can just handle this with better training & human process…

That sounds like a good approach. Also, maybe your vote and voice can make a difference in this feature request: Petition for being able to "deselect ALL" member notification checkboxes at once in the 'member notification settings' . Being able to (de-)select all notification checkboxes would sure ma…

[image] Brian_Fewell: can I set up the rule to apply at the organization level, or do I need to create it separately on each project? It hasn’t been mentioned yet, but you could have users who want this behavior to one-time-only add the unblocking rule to their My Tasks instead of worrying ab…

Thanks @lpb ! I walk folks through setting up rules to move tasks into sections based on due date, but I appreciate the refinements you have here—especially adding a rule for tasks to move to New when they are unblocked, so that they are more readily visible! This is a great option for this issue tha…

Add @mention in notification when blocking task is completed

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lpb October 11, 2024, 4:26am 7

It hasn’t been mentioned yet, but you could have users who want this behavior to one-time-only add the unblocking rule to their My Tasks instead of worrying about applying it to all projects.

That’s one of the rules I recommend here:

Thanks,

Larry

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Add @mention in notification when blocking task is completed

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