Add subtask to project rule

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Is there any workaround for me that automatically adds subtasks to Project B when the parent task is part of Project A?

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Welcome, @Kári_Georgsson,

Can you explain your request in more detail? I don’t think we can answer without understanding:

  • What do you mean by “adds subtasks to Project B”? Do you mean add subtasks to some (which?) parent task and make each also a member of Project B?, and
  • What triggering event do you want to cause this to happen?

Thanks,

Larry

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Hi, sorry for the late reply.

I’m working on a project that deals with incidents occurring within the company. Let’s call this project Incidents.

When someone provides more details about an incident, one of the tasks is to create a subtask under the incident. This subtask represents a suggestion for improvement. These improvement-related subtasks should also be added to another project where we track all improvement tasks—let’s call this project Improvements.

Here’s what I want the rule to do:

  • Automatically add all subtasks from the Incidents project to the Improvements project.

For example, the rule in the Incidents project could look like this:

  • Trigger: Task is added to project
  • Condition: Task is a subtask
  • Action: Add the task to the Improvements project

There no option to check if the task is a subtask so I have tried with the AI Studio rule but without any luck.

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In native Asana, I think you’d have to set a custom field on the subtask so you could catch that for the trigger of the rule to multi-home.

Perhaps Flowsana.net (@Phil_Seeman) could do this more directly?

Thanks,

Larry

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Yes (thanks @lpb) - you can indeed do this with a Flowsana rule. We don’t have a Condition for “task is a subtask” but we accomplish the same thing with this rule setting:

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