Hi there - Bug Report
Reporting that a few rules keep updating task assignee without prompting. I noticed a colleagues task got assigned to me after completion so I went and checked the activity and tracked it to a rule I had made. (Found this happened on another task also). I click on the rule and no where does it say to assign to me.
The only thing that has changed is we updated our plan in the last few weeks to Enterprise so I am thinking it may be an AI piece that is malfunctioning?
Just checking, is the task multi-homed in another project that may contain another rule?
Yes most definitely
Is that rule in your My Tasks? If so, are the affected tasks subtasks of tasks assigned to you, by any chance?
Hi Stephen
I did see the rule is one of mine in My Tasks menu. But it is weird since the task in question was not in My Tasks as it was assigned to a coworker first and foremost. So wondering why there is crossover, with a task that is using a custom field in another project is getting effected by My Task rules. I will turn it off and see if that helps.
What’s happening, which @Stephen_Li was getting at, is likely something we discussed recently here.
That is: when that task was completed, the rule you showed in your My Tasks fired, which instructed Asana to put it the task in the Completed section of your My Tasks. But remember that tasks in My Tasks by definition are only ones assigned to you. So in order to fulfill the rule’s action of having the task show in the Completed section of your My Tasks, it had to assign the task to you! There is no other way to have it show in a section of your My Tasks. I think that’s what happened, and why. Does that make sense?
This sounds exactly what is happening. I am worried that I tell our colleagues “oh any My Task rules you make won’t effect anything outside of your My Tasks”… but here we are.
Yeah, you’ll see in that topic I linked to that a number of us were surprised about it at first, but once @lpb filed his explanation (kudos there!), it made sense that Asana has to work that way.
