How to determine when a task changes sections?

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My goal is to change the assignee of a task depending on what section the task is moved to.

Changing the assignee of the task isn’t hard. But it does not seem like there is a nice way to determine when a task changes the section it is in.

So far the best I have come up with is “stories” . Something along the lines of

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For each event, if a story was added in regards to “section_changed” continue with the code. I found a post by a leader explaining what stories are. In the users eyes they are basically those comments that identify changes to the task.

I will continue to try and find a good way to approach this, but any input is welcome.

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Hi @Jeremy_Labelle,

From the code snippet in your post, I assume you’re wanting to do this programmatically using the API, not in the UI using rules? (If so, I want to move your post to the API forum section.)

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Yes I am trying to achieve this programmatically using the API. If there is a more appropriate section please move it there, thank you.

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Moved!

I can offer two solutions:

  1. If you can store values on your end, then record the section for the tasks within the project. Then use a project-level webhook to capture changes on those tasks; when you get a change event, read the task, check its current section against the value in your data store to determine if it’s changed.

  2. Use the story-based approach you outlined. If you use this approach, just be cognizant of story consolidation which means you aren’t guaranteed to get every single change on a task.

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