Can Asana rules be triggered by aggregated metrics like total estimated hours?

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Hey everyone!

I’m trying to automate some project monitoring, and I have a use case I’d love your thoughts on:

I’d like to trigger a rule when the total estimated hours for all tasks in a project changes, and then compare that total to a predefined limit (e.g., if total exceeds 100 hours, alert the project owner).

From what I can tell, Asana’s native rules don’t support using aggregated custom field values as triggers.

So I’m wondering:

  • Is this possible with any current tools or integrations?
  • Has anyone built a workaround for this, maybe using webhooks or external scripts?

Would appreciate any guidance or even creative hacks to get around this limitation!

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Using Portfolio Rules, you can currently trigger when an aggregated value changes, but we are missing the right Conditions in rules to compare it with a target. So I am afraid you would be stuck for now.