One area I would like to see an add-on is being able to apply company-wide rules to the My Tasks section. Because my coworkers have varying schedules and hours, I am unable to pin them all down for a meeting and go step by step for the many rules to create in My Tasks. I want them to stay organized, but also efficient with their time.
There are two possible ways I see this happening product happening.
First, Asana creates a “Rules Library” where an admin can create tasks and users are able to pull these rules into whatever project they need, including My Tasks.
Second, Asana creates a capability specifically to My Tasks and admins are able to create rules and apply them to everyone in the organization. Users would have to accept this application, but it makes it so one person (the admin) is doing the work and not everyone individually.
Let me know your thoughts!
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Hi @Mike_Tammaro, thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback!
While this feature isn’t available at this time, hopefully it’s something our Product team can implement in the future.
I’ll keep you posted and let you know if we have any updates 
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Thank you! I thought it would a good suggestion for the product team to review.
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I think it’s a great idea, just needs some careful analysis and implementation to provide clarity as to what rules apply and hence, what is happening and why, from the perspective of each user and also the admin or project manager. (Doing so is conceptually simple, I just felt the need to throw that in there to underscore to the Asana Product Management team.)
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Nice idea and yes can understand why you are suggesting this as often even the most basic things can take quite some time as many team members would usually have questions.
As Stephanie mentioned though I do agree it could be a bit challenging + we should keep in mind that most team members would have their „my tasks“ set up in a different way, different sections, custom fields and potentially such company wide rules conflict with already existing ones.
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Totally agree. It should be a case-by-case situation. I think the rules library is still essential, as long as there’s an option where the rule creator can make it a private or public rule. For my organization, tasks, projects, rules, etc are all controlled by myself and one other.
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Agreed a lot of factors have to be considered but yeah it totally makes sense especially foe companies where a few people only handle rules and key Asana related set ups for the whole company
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I have the exact same need for my organization! 
It’s actually very frustrating that this is not available yet!
I personally defined rules that are helping me stay focus and organized every day! It helps a lot, I’d like all my employees to benefit from the same rules, yet I can’t share (and oblige them to adopt it) it with them.
Asana is a powerful tool and I know that their mission is to make our teams more efficient.
To me, this feature would definitely make Asana take a footstep forward along this path!
I’d be happy to be a beta-tester if needed! Hopefully it will be released soon!
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Is there un update on this? I would love to implement this.
Upvoted it above, but this is EXACTLY what we need! We’ve only got 25 people in Asana, and if we make a global change to how we want our teams to manage their tasks, we have to go around one by one to apply the changes to that user’s ‘my tasks’ view, vs. me, as the Asana Super-Admin, going through and adding the rule(s) to everyone’s tasks myself. It’s MY job to update the system, so I should be able to do that for each user.
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@aji005 has this been looked into? Update please on the ability to apply ‘My Task’ rules on an org-wide basis. My org is needing an efficient way to monitor overdue tasks to address 2 areas: 1. To nudge the assignee of the overdue task. For this, I would like to apply a rule to add a comment on the task addressed to the assignee “This task’s deadline has been missed today”. AND 2. To give our Asana admin a single view of overdue tasks by creating a rule to automatically multi-home/send overdue tasks to a “Missed Due Dates” project (makes reporting easier too). See related forum topic - 💡 How to identify tasks with missed deadlines
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There’s no update - if there is one, it’ll be posted here in the forum.
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I love Mike’s idea.
For my small organization I’d use it to create a ‘baseline configuration’ for my organization’s usage of Asana and/or use it to ‘push’ customized Rules to my users.
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agreed. i feel like i setup the same rules for almost every project and its really annoying
Let’s make this happen!
I am currently doing small group workshops for our team on Asana setup internally as we are growing quite quickly, and it takes time, effort and follow-up to make sure team members have their rules set up properly in “My Tasks”. Our team has also doubled in size since I started so a scalable solution to have all new to Asana be on the same page would be exponentially better than the current free-for-all.
Not to mention the headache of having to manually update rules on other standardized projects one by one when we change a process… Being able to make these rule changes in bulk would be sooo much more efficient and easy to track!
This is not a solution, but I’m marking it as such to highlight a workaround. Our organization has a company-wide team with an “Asana Rules, Resources & Tips” project, which we have pinned as curated work on the team page. The project includes tasks set up as step-by-step tutorials, best practices, and other relevant information that users can refer to.
I know this doesn’t solve the original request of allowing one person to set rules for everyone, but it does address the challenge of not being able to meet with everyone to provide guidance.
We’ve even created a task to house form banners, ensuring a consistent look!
Thanks for adding your support of this enhancement request. Feel free to upvote it at the top of this thread if you’d like. 
