I’m a little confused with Asana’s “comment-only” feature.
In order to prevent mishap and accidental changes to tasks, I am trying to assign everyone on a project “comment-only”, so that only the project manager can make changes to tasks. For example, we don’t want people to accidentally delete a dependency, change a due date, or change a task’s section. But when I assign a user “comment-only” permission, that user is still able to make all those changes–worse, they’re even able to delete the task!
Whoops, I actually got it! The tasks in question were in several projects at the same time, and one of them was not comment-only, so the user was able to make changes.
One more question, if someone can help me: is it possible to allow comment-only users to make changes to just one field (for example “status”)?
That currently isn’t a feature in Asana. However, feature to have just one field ‘Status’ editable and rest of them ‘Read Only’ could be a little tedious to manage.
@Emily_Roman@Marie Is something like this in the development pipeline by any chance?
It would be really useful to have User rights based on Features.
For example:
View
Add/Edit
Delete
Comments
x
Tasks
x
Project
x
x
Goals
x
x
Messages
x
x
x
Milestones
x
Progress
x
Custom Fields
x
x
Rules
x
…
…
Something like this could be really useful.
Thanks.
This feels related to this topic. Just recently (maybe within the past month) I’ve had employees reach out saying they are getting a message indicating they can’t make edits on a task because they are comment-only. But I am unable to find any reason for this to be so.
Sometimes the note states that a task is in more than one project (but it isn’t) and sometimes it is in more than one project, but both projects are clearly public to the whole organization with no restrictions in the settings.
Have you checked with the person that owns the Asana organization/workspace that was set up for your company? Maybe somebody has made some changes to the settings?
Check especially the Individual user project permissions
Hi @Andrea_Mayer That person is me, and I have not made any changes. However, you’ve definitely pointed me in the right direction! Thank you for the response and help.
