Hi there
Looking for a way to allow users to add comments to a task without allowing them to update Task Name or Description.
Help appreciated
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Hi @Gary_Gertz
Unfortunately, there’s no way to restrict or lock down elements of Asana at this point. There’s another thread on it here, if you’d like to vote for that feature:
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I guess Asana has the approach “trust the people to do the right thing”. If a name is changed, collaborators would be notified…
@Gary_Gertz did that already happen. Was it intentional?
We are exposing the Asana Project to Customers and are concerned that they can update/change the task name and description. And this kind of invalidates it as a “System of Record”. And yes it has already happened - although not maliciously. 
This approach doesn’t make any sense if you’re trying to have a system that manages projects. Governance is essential.
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@Gary_Gertz if you need to only share the content, maybe my latest project three-dots.io can help, this is exactly what it is useful for! You can contact me for any question.
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Hello, has this changed since 2017? I just ran a project and then I found out that the project resource changed all of the tasks etc. I need to lock down people from being able to make changes to tasks names, descriptions etc
Asana has since added this feature (for all paid plans) to help with this need:
Larry
Hey, this doesnt address the problem. This turns the project to comment only and does not allow the staff member to complete the task. What I want is them to be able to do the work in the project as they are the project resource but I do not want them adding new tasks or editing the details of existing tasks because that is what happened. They meddled.
The table in the doc shows that the assignee of a task is allowed to complete that task; isn’t that what you need?
The assignee can change other aspects of that assigned task too, but there’s an audit trail.
Maybe that’s not a full solution for you but it’s as close as Asana gets for now.
Larry
Ok so I retested this and yes they can mark the task as complete but ONLY if they open the details of that task. They cannot complete the task by ticking the “Mark task complete” option on the list page… That is rather tedious and doesn’t really make sense as its the same action.
@Daniel_Tovizi, I agree, that’s unfortunate when features are not fully, consistently implemented and then left that way. It would be good to submit a #productfeedback request.
Larry