Guys… help. It’s become an issue that a member of our team is changing due dates on important tasks, while he only has “comment only” access. I understand that “comment only”’ doesn’t restrict date-changing, but gosh! It’s so annoying. Aside from telling our team that they CANNOT change dates unless…

Wow, this is a really tricky one. Other than threatening disciplinary action, the only suggestion I have is to use dependencies. If you set all tasks as dependent on the previous ones, you can illustrate to him just how much his date-fiddling affects others’ ability to schedule their work. This woul…

Hello everyone Is there a way to assign a task to someone and not have them be able to change the due date/time?

Hi @Pia_Engstrom , welcome to our Community Forum! At this time, it’s not possible to prevent the task assignee from changing due dates. Even if their permission in the project is “comment-only”, being the assignee gives them access to edit the due date of that task. We already have a Product Feedba…

As a workaround, you can create and save a report on this person’s open tasks and export it daily. With a bit of effort, you can create a live report in e.g. Google Sheets that shows how the Due dates of their Tasks have been changed. You won’t see in the export who made the edit, but you can dig …

Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply [image] Avery_Bingham: Any advice? I’d recommend a rule like the following: [image] You could replace with other actions (add a task for yourself only to investigate, etc.). Thanks, Larry PS Rules did not exist when this re…

"Comment Only" tasks and changed due dates

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Hi everyone and thanks for sharing your feedback with us! I’m happy to share it’s now possible to lock the due date field Please find more information in our announcement below:

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"Comment Only" tasks and changed due dates

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