Hi, I am trying to set a rule. When a task is marked complete and it moves to another project (waiting for approval section, our manager has to go through the task before approving them), it will be set as approval. Now the problem is that the “moved” task that I set for approval is already approve…

It’s a little bit of a workaround. But you could set up a field for status and have it be that once the status swaps to ready for approval, it moves to the new project, and automatically ads a new subtask that could be named Approval. You can have that assign to your manager automatically as well. …

Hi, With rules action at the moment you can’t change the approval status, this is just not available. Other tools might help, and you can definitely custom code an action in Zapier for example using the API.

[image] Bastien_Siebman: With rules action at the moment you can’t change the approval status, this is just not available. Other tools might help, FYI our Flowsana integration has a rule action of “Set task as an approval task”.

Thank you for replying. Yes, @Phil_Seeman I used that “Set task as an approval task” integration rule but when the approval task is created, it is already approved. I want to set the task in a way that when it is created it is not approved. Can we do that? What is the point of task approval automat…

[image] Uraiba_Khatri: I used that “Set task as an approval task” integration rule but when the approval task is created, it is already approved. That’s not the Flowsana rule action marking it as approved (I just tested to be sure); you must have some other rule or automation that’s doing tha…

Yeah, sure. [Screenshot (55)] [Screenshot (56)] You can see in the first image that as soon as the completed task moves to the waiting for approval section, it is set as mark as approval, but already approved.

Also, is it possible that when I move the task to the completed tasks section, a copy of the task moves to waiting for approval section, instead of the original task?

[image] Uraiba_Khatri: You can see in the first image that as soon as the completed task moves to the waiting for approval section, it is set as mark as approval, but already approved. The reason for this is that the task is already marked as Complete when it’s moved into the Waiting For Appr…

[image] Uraiba_Khatri: is it possible that when I move the task to the completed tasks section, a copy of the task moves to waiting for approval section, instead of the original task? There’s no way I know of to do that using native Asana, or Asana+Flowsana. It might be possible to do using a…

All right. Thank you so much @Phil_Seeman It makes sense now.

Create task as approval rule

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Hey @Uraiba_Khatri this is available now:

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Create task as approval rule

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