It often happens to me that I would like to make a follow up task to a finished task. The task should than show related previously finished tasks and related documents.

Does this help? Click your avatar Click My Profile Settings menu item Click Hacks tab Turn on: Follow-up Tasks from Right Pane Add a Create Follow-up Task option to the right pane’s action menu. Clicking it creates a task reminding you to follow-up.

You can mark the new task as dependent on the finished task and then you are a click away from the finished task. Would that work for you?

that is a work-around to get to the task that has the attachment that I need. But what I’d like would be the relationship the other way around. Does that make sense?

Not quite but it is probably due to my English level. Can you make a dummy example with fake names?

You can @mention a task. Doing so you’ll have a direct link to your finished task with the documents. Introducing Hypertext: “@” Links for Projects, Tasks, People, And Tags Hypertext makes it easy, fast and fluid to create links between Asana's Tasks, Projects and People. Simply type "@…

[image] Julien_RENAUD: have a direct link to your finished ta yes, that’s what I’m currently doing.

But you need an extra click, that is your issue right?

Thanks I was looking for this but could not find it :stuck_out_tongue:

This is what I use and it’s incredible - @Floris_Assies perhaps if that’s not what you had in mind (it auto creates a task with the hyperlink to the task) you could explain a bit more about what you need in this follow-up task and how you see workflow happening once a task is completed? I’m a bit co…

I agree with @lpb ! Enabling the “Follow-up task” feature ( How to Control Your Profile Settings in Asana | Product guide • Asana Product Guide ) is probably the easiest thing to do!

thanks for all your comments. @lpb suggestion is exactly what I wanted. Great stuff!

Create follow-up task

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lpb 19 January 2018 16:21 8

Does this help?

Click your avatar
Click My Profile Settings menu item
Click Hacks tab
Turn on:
Follow-up Tasks from Right Pane
Add a Create Follow-up Task option to the right pane’s action menu. Clicking it creates a task reminding you to follow-up.

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Create follow-up task

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