None of my guests to the project are able to assign tasks to other guests despite being editors. Is this expected behaviour?

If they can otherwise edit other parts of the task, and especially if they can assign to a Member (someone with email domain matching your Org’s domain; not a Guest), then I’d say it’s the same problem. But if it’s not clearly so, you may want to: Try these troubleshooting steps , then please creat…

@Ain_Roesley , I noticed you already posted in this thread which is seen as a bug and has been escalated, might that be the problem here? [image] Guest users not visible in Asana project In Progress I added the organization’s guest users to a shared project in…

Hi @lpb are you saying they’re related..? Previously, guest editors could assign tasks but i’ve received feedback the past couple of days that they’re no longer able to.

They may be related. You’ll need to find out and share here exactly what your colleagues mean by “no longer able to.” Screenshots would help and very explicit “When I try to do xxx, yyy happens” or “the other guest’s name doesn’t autocomplete in the assignee field” or “I can’t click the assignee fi…

Thanks Larry. They just can’t assign anyone. When they click on Assignee, the drop down to select a person doesn’t appear. When they type a name, the user doesn’t come up as well.

Guests to the project are editors but unable to assign tasks

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lpb 26 November 2025 00:17 2

@Ain_Roesley,

I noticed you already posted in this thread which is seen as a bug and has been escalated, might that be the problem here?

Thanks,

Larry

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Guests to the project are editors but unable to assign tasks

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