Issues with tasks when marked for approval

[Emma_White]

I have marked a task for approval and assigned it to my colleague. They then approve the task and a rule is triggered to re-assign the task back to myself. The issue I am having is that when my colleague marks the task as approved, it then automatically marks the task complete. How do I stop this from happening.

[lpb]

Hi @Emma_White,

Here are some approaches (note: I wrote this right after the Approvals feature came out but I think are the generally accepted ways to use Approvals):

A new type of task is available in Asana. Meet Approvals!

I haven’t used Approvals much yet, but… What initially occurred to me upon hearing that all approvals mark the task complete was: So then I would want the approval to be a separate task–not apply on the actual work task itself And maybe this added approval task could be 1) a subtask of the actual work task to keep them together (and facilitate multiple approvals should the need arise), or 2) a follow-up task And/Or make the actual work task dependent on the approval. Just thinking out loud, …

Larry

[Bastien_Siebman]

That’s normal behavior your rule could mark it incomplete I guess