Custom Rules + Commenting, Assignee, Subtasks, Task Templates

[Andrea_Mayer]

Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Olivia_Tillema

In general we recommend creating separate feedback request threads for every topic

Now I had a quick look and I have found some existing threads that might be what you are looking for:

Using @user variables for targeted commenting using rules

I would really like to have a possibility to target auto comment to a user to whom the task is currently assinged. Example: I have a rule to add a comment on Task Compete action to remind the assignee that he needs to add actual hours spent on a task after he completes the task. And I want that specific user to have notification with his name tagged in inbox with this reminder comment or even have a message personnaly sent to assignee in Slack to remind him about it. The problem is that tasks …

Allow Rules for Subtasks

I would request that you would add or allow us to create rules based on subtasks. For example in a project flow - I have a task that contains multiple sub-tasks. This task is connected to my editorial calendar and the due date on the task is based on when it will post, but I would like to create rules for my subtasks. So as I change the status of the task it can automatically change the due dates on the sub-tasks. Right now I have to manually do this and it is quite time-consuming. I could…

Support Dependencies and the ability to multi-home task in "Add Subtasks" Rule

So glad to see multi-select field support in forms and rules, rules for adding subtasks, and dependencies added to task templates! I’m hoping the same features that are available in Task Templates can be implemented in rules-created subtasks, namely: dependencies, and the ability to multi-home the subtask in another project. This will allow us to make full use of forms; when a client submits a request using a form, we will be able to automatically add our workflow as subtasks based on the requ…

There are a bunch more feedback request threads about rules, I recommend searching the forum to see if any of the others are of interest