Rule based on result of another rule not working

[Phil_Seeman]

Ah yes, OK.

@Holli

it seems that a rule does not work if it‘s trigger is the result of another (previous) rule.

Unfortunately you are correct - this is a limitation of Asana rules, as @Marie indicates here:

Rule to assign tasks when added to a project does not work when tasks are added by a rule in another project

Hi @Calum_You and so sorry for the delay in responding to you! I can confirm this is not a bug but currently an expected behaviour as currently Rules can’t trigger other Rules. Sounds like a good opportunity to create a new #productfeedback and get the Community to support this feature request for future updates!

You can vote for a change in this limitation here:

Allow Rules to trigger other Rules

I posted this as a Bug here but apparently it is intended behaviour as a of right now. The situation is this: I have a master project and multiple other individual projects. I have Rules to automatically copy tasks created in an individual project to the Master project, which is a great use of Rules. However, I would also like categorization to happen to rules in the Master project, for example to mark new tasks as “Not Started” and to assign them to me. At present, a task that is added to the …

Also, if you’re interested, Flowsana (which I’m the author of) does not have this same limitation. You can build the scenario you describe here using Flowsana’s If-Then Rules and it will work the way you want.