My Team Loves to Pull Subtasks into our Board View and I want to automate it!

[BoKoe]

Hello!

I am working on automating some workflows for my team and I need some help.

Our team uses a board view and loves to pull out the subtasks and add them as a separate task to the board. I would love to automate this but I cannot figure out how.

Basically I want my rule trigger to work like this:

• When a subtask is added
• Move Task to Project (current project, section (Not Started)

Is this possible?

[Andrea_Mayer]

Hello @BoKoe, welcome to the Asana Community!

Currently you cannot set up rules for subtasks.

Here is an existing feedback request thread to vote on:

Allow Rules for Subtasks

I would request that you would add or allow us to create rules based on subtasks. For example in a project flow - I have a task that contains multiple sub-tasks. This task is connected to my editorial calendar and the due date on the task is based on when it will post, but I would like to create rules for my subtasks. So as I change the status of the task it can automatically change the due dates on the sub-tasks. Right now I have to manually do this and it is quite time-consuming. I could…

[Paul_Grobler]

@BoKoe If you are willing to try an integration, you can get this functionality from Flowsana.

[Bastien_Siebman]

I also have a custom made automation doing exactly this in case you are interested

[BoKoe]

Hey Paul!

Thank you for the suggestion! I am looking into it at the moment. We just upgraded to the highest tier for asana so im not sure if we can afford another pay-per-seat kind of integration but will definitely look into it!

Thank you!

[BoKoe]

Hey Bastien!

Yes, very interested, how did you manage to pull this off! Sounds very impressive

Thanks!