Hi everyone,
I am new to Asana, and i’m trying to setup the workflow on this tool.
I’d like to give the task assignee the editor permissions level regarding that task, but it seems you can only give it to the collaborators.
It doesn’t seems logical to be able to give power to the collaborators and not to the assignee.
In particular, i’d like the assignee to be able to edit the task description and create subtasks. The only way i managed that is to set the assignee also as a collaborator, and then give the collaborators the editor level permissions in the project members window. However, this makes collaborators able to edit the due date and mark the task as completed, and they shouldn’t be.
Is there another way i’m completely missing out?
refers to more of a default permission level that applies to anyone with access to the task.
Individuals or teams, as shown above, can also be added with increased permission levels, but that doesn’t help you because you want the assignee to have a particular permission level, not a static person or team.
However, if you make “Task collaborators” be “Commenter,” then the default will be as you wish with collaborators not allowed to set the due date or mark complete. But assignees will be able to change the due date, assignee, and mark complete, because “Commenter” provides that to the assignee, but not collaborators.
So that might help you in the way part of your request is written. But the assignee will not be able to edit the description or add subtasks.
Enterprise/+ plan adds more fine-grained controls, but I’m not sure if it can accomodate your need.
I agree with you, the best option will be to set the “Task Collaborators” as Commenter to avoid having too much people able to edit important information, as due dates or completing the tasks.
It would have been useful to give assignees the possibility to create subtasks in their own tasks, so that they could set their own “sub-goals” or “steps”.
The description editing could be avoided by setting-up a textual Custom Field, which can be edited only by the assignee.
