Auto Assign Tasks

[Phil_Seeman]

@Sam_Engel

You can use a Rule here to automate this. You’ll still need to manually set each Team filter, but you can create a Rule that will assign every task to Person-A based on the assignment of the Team Filter. (Eg the Rule would under ‘field updated’ and you could choose Team changed; then the action would be ‘assign task’ to Person-A).

I considered a rule-based approach like this - the problem is that you’d have to specify the assignee name in the rule action, but that doesn’t work for @Jonty_Wilkinson’s use case because the assignee changes from project to project, right?

@Sam_Engel

if it’s the same person each time, you can set your assignees in the templates and when you use the template, the work is automatically assigned as well.

Aside from Jonty’s use case where it’s not the same person each time, also I personally wouldn’t use this approach because the assignee tasks in the templates will appear in peoples’ My Tasks lists due to that aspect of Asana’s behavior, even though they’re not “real” tasks yet.