Automate Project Status Across Multiple Projects

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Stephen_Crane and welcome to the forum,

You have to use a global (i.e. in your organizational library) custom field and a rule in each project to accomplish this. This thread discusses it:

How do I sync which section a task is in across projects

Hey I am trying to set up my Asana a bit more streamlined, so having a portfolio with several projects. The problem with this is I now don’t have a central board to use during standup, so to fix this I have made it so that when a task is added to any of the projects the standup project is added to the task as well, The problem is when I move the task to a different section, the 2 projects that the task is in don’t both update. Is it possible to keep these in sync? Thanks Jonathan

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