Allow to automatically add subtasks to project

Welcome, @Diana_Di_Leonrdo,

Probably. You can confirm about your plan with your Asana Admin or Super Admin or Billing Owner.

Re your suggestions, voting at the top of this thread helps, and adding your use case so Asana understands your need.

Thanks,

Larry

Thanks for this! I got the rule to run but it’s throwing an error - anyone else had success?

@Chloe_Hellerman - What is the error? I haven’t tested this script personally but from a quick skim it looks to be at least logically correct. They wrote in good logging statements for errors (in their code, just look for anything that starts with log(...)), so if you’re not getting a meaningful error message, it might be something unrelated to the script itself.

I’ve noticed that subtasks don’t appear to be linked to their parent task’s project. Even though the main task is part of a project, the subtasks show up in My Tasks as if they’re not associated with any project.

I’ve seen previous suggestions to remove the subtask from the main task and assign it directly to the project, but that doesn’t seem logical to me—especially when it’s clearly a subcomponent of the main task.

Is this expected behaviour or a bug? Am I doing something wrong?

Hi @Deb_Cantoni,

FYI I moved your post to an existing thread on this subject. Yes, it’s expected behavior and you’re not doing anything wrong! You can see from the discussion here that a lot of folks agree with you, and you can add your vote at the top of this thread for a change in behavior.

Hello everyone! I’m a Group PM Lead who somewhat recently has started owning Asana’s core project management functionality. As some of our Forum leaders know, this has been a mountain I committed to die on and it’s finally made it on our roadmap :raising_hands: .

While we may not respond to every comment, my team reads all your posts and they are cited when we are discussing various solutions. We have a few other subtask improvements superseding subtask project inheritance, but this is in design and we look forward to being able to share more soon!

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Wow that’s excellent news!! :star_struck:
It’s nice to have someone on the inside committed to this topic. I’ve had so many clients and colleagues ask about this very issue over the years. The community will be so excited you’re tackling this.

Cheers to getting on the roadmap!! :clinking_glasses:

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Amazing!

Tagging @Forum-team to update tags. :slight_smile:

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All subtasks should be assigned by default to the same project(s) as the parent task. I understand that there may be occasions when someone would want it to be assigned to a different project but I would venture to say this is very much the exception and not the rule.

I encountered this when searching to try to understand why my subtasks were not appearing in my calendar view. The “workaround” was to manually go in and assign each subtask to the project (even though, again, they are simply a part of the larger task that already has a project assigned).

The very nature of the task-subtask relationship makes the necessity of a workaround a real headscratcher for me.

Hi @Kathleen_Quin_Voss,

I’ve merged your post with an existing topic for this request.

Note especially this post from Asana letting us know that this request is in a design stage!

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Agreed - Other companies does this too. And other project mgt software allows this - just not Asana.

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Given we’ve kicked off foundational work for supporting this functionality, I’ve updated the status from Considered to In Development!

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