Option to exclude subtasks from project notifications

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If would be great if we could exclude subtasks from project notifications.

We have a checklist of subtasks that get added to each task once it moves to “in progress”. I would like to stay in the loop and get notified each time a task is added to my projects. But I don’t need to get notified for each of the 15-20 subtasks! If would be great if we could turn this off.

Here’s a mock-up of how it would look:

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Thanks

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I could not agree more, but there are other options to be included like e.g. notifications when you are mentioned and not for every comment.

You have my vote

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Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply

@Peter_Kapitola,

Are you sure something else is not at play?

It’s never been the case that the Tasks added checkbox applies to subtasks; only top-level tasks because they are project members; subtasks are not, unless your rule makes them so, or adds you as Assignee, or perhaps something else that generates the notification.

I just tested and confirmed the above, though that doesn’t preclude an A/B test with new behavior.

Thanks,

Larry

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You might be ono something here. I seem to be being added as a collaborator to each of these subtasks. Any ideas where these may be coming from? The subtasks are being copied from a template task to the newly created tasks using Flowsana, so that may be it. I’ll dig further, but if you have any ideas please let me know.

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If not created manually, subtasks could be created by:

  • a task template: customize > task template > edit > see the definition of the subtask where collaborators could be listed,
  • an Asana rule: customize > rule > edit > action: Add subtasks > see the definition
  • a Flowsana rule: see Flowsana’s definition

Also see if any of the task Activity (audit trail) helps narrow down where they came from (beyond what you captured in the screenshot).

Hope that helps,

Larry

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Ahhhh, yes, you’re right. In the template task (which had all the subtasks ready to be copied across for each new job), I had added a few new subtasks, which had automatically made me a collaborator without me realising it. So each time a new task got created, I got added as a collaborator!

Thanks for the help.

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