All new tasks added to a project are assigned to review quarter. Based on the assigned quarter, they receive a corresponding review date. For example:
Q1 → 01/01/2027
Q2 → 01/04/2027
Q3 → 01/07/2027
Q4 → 01/10/2027
What I would like Asana to do is automatically update these dates each year. For example, when a new year begins, (a) any new tasks should be assigned dates such as 01/01/2028, and (b) existing recurring tasks should also have their review dates updated to the corresponding 2028 dates.
Is there a rule or automation in Asana that can dynamically update the year, or is this something that has to be changed manually each year?
One rule with condition branches for the quarters could update the dates.
You could use two OR’ed WHEN’s:
When rule is run manually
When new task is added
to handle both the ad hoc cases and the new-year cases (manually, but with multi-select it should just take a minute, annually).
You could assign an annually recurring task to manually update the rule condition branches for the new dates each year.
It might be possible to further automate, but for annual things that only take a minute, I usually leave it at this kind of a “manually-augmented” automation.
Without more deeply understanding your underlying need, I wouldn’t attempt to offer another solution, which could potentially provide a very different solution that might not require the above.
