Introducing Scheduled Triggers - Automate Your Workflows with Time-Based Rules!

Hi Asana Community!

I’m excited to announce we are launching Scheduled Triggers! A powerful new automation feature that lets you create time-based rules to keep your workflows running smoothly without manual intervention.

What are Scheduled Triggers?

Scheduled Triggers are a new type of rule trigger that activate based on time and date conditions, giving you unprecedented control over when your automations run. Unlike traditional event-based triggers (like “when a task is completed”), Scheduled Triggers fire automatically at specified times or intervals.

There’s so much we want this feature to accomplish for your workflows. Rather than waiting to launch everything at once, we decided to roll this feature out in phases so you can start getting value immediately while we continue building toward the full vision.

V1, essential time-based automation (Available Now):

  • Create a task: Automatically generate recurring tasks, reminders, or follow-ups at scheduled intervals
  • Draft Status with AI: Leverage AI to automatically draft project status updates on a regular cadence

V2, the complete Scheduled Triggers experience (Coming in early 2026):

  • Access to all existing rule actions including task assignments, custom field updates, and more

Let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

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@Nadeen_Saleh I read this and immediately ran to My Tasks. Sadly, I don’t see it available there. Is this part of the expected rollout?

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Hell yes!

That’s great! Are you also planning to add the option to include some conditions like “check if task is no longer blocked”? Thanks!

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@Otakar.Libra @Jeremy_Long the (1) ability to filter the scope of a scheduled trigger and (2) scheduled triggers in My Tasks will be both be a part of the V2 launch!

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I can see it now on project level, but not on portfolio level. Will it be available there?

Also will it allow to schedule a task based on inactivity which could be run say at scheduled interval?

Say for example: if “no comment in last one week” then add comment ‘provide an update’ to the task, run every morning at 8am.

When do you expect V2 launch?

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I’d love to see some use cases examples. Does anyone have any idea? For now I see that still recurring taks is more useful than this.

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Yay! I’ve been using workarounds for this so I’m pumped for this new rule!

Amazing! Would love to hear some use cases from others on how they are planning to leverage this new capability :nerd_face:

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Will this be compatible with bundles too?

Yes, it is, @Roberta_Whitford :slight_smile:
Welcome to the forum :waving_hand:

Hey @Jeremy_Long , I did the same thing. But, when I opened a project I own to setup a new rule workflow, it showed up!

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@Starian_Porchia I ended up creating a dedicated project for this trigger so I could keep it private from my other projects and use it solely for creating personal tasks.

I know this is limited atm - any idea when scripts can be run on a schedule? Right now seems you can only create a new task or draft an AI update. You’d solve a mess of my problems if I could run a script daily!

Until @Nadeen_Saleh, replies, we know this much:

Thanks,

Larry

I can’t see this option. I can only choose to create a task with this trigger.

Perhaps your AI features are disabled by your Admin, @Grace_Marcon ? Do you have this feature when you normally try to post a status update?

sorry for the late responses everyone!

I can see it now on project level, but not on portfolio level. Will it be available there?

Also will it allow to schedule a task based on inactivity which could be run say at scheduled interval?

Say for example: if “no comment in last one week” then add comment ‘provide an update’ to the task, run every morning at 8am.

When do you expect V2 launch?

@VladS we have a general desire to bring portfolio rules to parity with project rules, but no expected timeline as of now. V2 will likely land in May/June. V2 will enable the running on inactivity use case :slight_smile:

I can’t see this option (Draft Status with AI). I can only choose to create a task with this trigger.

@Grace_Marcon if you toggle off AI Studio, the option will appear! because “Draft Status with AI” does not consume AI Studio credits, we didn’t want folks to be confused, but totally acknowledge the feature is hidden. we’ll iterate on that!

I know this is limited atm - any idea when scripts can be run on a schedule? Right now seems you can only create a new task or draft an AI update. You’d solve a mess of my problems if I could run a script daily!

@Amy_Greenstadt still to be decided on when we will get to scripts! we’re focused on enabling all the other actions in V2, but curious what script use cases you’re looking to implement!

Will this be compatible with bundles too?

@Roberta_Whitford yes!

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this is SO OVERDUE! thanks for flagging it here, too!

Im looking to send emails at a specific time. It doesnt look like that is an option.