I’ve created simple rules to run for “My Tasks” board to have some organization. For some reason the rules are running and reassigning certain tasks back to me when they were originally tasked to someone else. I tried deleting the rules and readding them to my customization. Any suggestions?

Hi Diane! If the rule runs on “tasks and subtasks” this problem occurs. To fix: Open the rule in your MyTasks, click the settings wheel on the top right, and toggle the blue radio button to tell the rule to run on tasks, NOT tasks and sub tasks. Then save the rule. This quirk is something I’ve seen …

To add to @Rebecca-21Knots 's post, which has the right advice: the explanation is a little complicated but this typically happens when you have a “move to section” rule in your My Tasks and that rule is set to run on subtasks. What then happens is when the rule goes to move the subtask to another s…

Hi Phil - Thank you for the further context. Is there anything on the current Asana roadmap to have this issue resolved where we can have the rule run on tasks and subtasks without them being reassigning to the task? Solving this issue would be immensely helpful on very collaborative parent tasks & …

Hi @C_L_66 and welcome to the forum, I don’t work for Asana so I can’t say for sure what’s coming, but we know that Asana is close to releasing some major changes related to subtasks. cc: @Garrett_Knoll

How am I getting reassigned tasks?

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Garrett_Knoll 22 February 2026 20:54 6

@Phil_Seeman is correct! We are overhauling Subtasks, which will also include ensuring Rules are properly updated to fix Subtask Automation use cases. I’m aware of the shortcomings here and am evangelizing their resolution

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How am I getting reassigned tasks?

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