# Require approval of tasks to ensure they're done sufficiently/correctly?

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Created:** [25 March 2020 20:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287 "2020-03-25T20:44:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kiley\_Laemmli](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Kiley\_Laemmli](https://forum.asana.com/u/Kiley_Laemmli)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2020 20:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287/1 "2020-03-25T20:44:04Z")

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Is there a way to require that other team members can submit their tasks for approval prior to marking them as complete? I need to review certain tasks before they’re actually “done”.

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**Author:** ![Natalia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/natalia/32/34795_2.png) [@Natalia](https://forum.asana.com/u/Natalia)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2020 09:19 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287/2 "2020-03-26T09:19:17Z")

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Welcome to the Forum @Kiley_Laemmli and thank you for reaching out!

Our recommendation is to use subtasks to request for approval. By using this method, the parent Task remains incomplete until you finish your review. You can read more about this workaround in the following post [post](https://forum.asana.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-complete-a-task-and-pass-it-on-to-someone-ie-for-approval-or-additional-steps/10315/5).

Would this be helpful Kiley?

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**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2020 17:32 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287/3 "2020-03-26T17:32:05Z")

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> [@Kiley\_Laemmli](#):
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> Is there a way to require that other team members can submit their tasks for approval prior to marking them as complete?

It would have to be part of your internal workflow, you can’t “enforce” that behavior.

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**Author:** ![Jon\_Yergatian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jon_yergatian/32/169699_2.png) [@Jon\_Yergatian](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jon_Yergatian)\
**Post date:** [26 May 2021 00:15 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287/4 "2021-05-26T00:15:50Z")

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It would be great if we could use rules to automate this based on a custom status field. As it stands, rules cannot create new [sub]tasks and rules cannot mark tasks as approvals.

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**Author:** ![Emily\_Roman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/emily_roman/32/283076_2.png) [@Emily\_Roman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Emily_Roman)\
**Post date:** [8 July 2022 15:17 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/require-approval-of-tasks-to-ensure-theyre-done-sufficiently-correctly/78287/5 "2022-07-08T15:17:57Z")

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Closed on 8 July 2022 15:17 UTC