# Rule trigger: Task added from specific project **URL:** \ **Category:** Features Launched\ **Tags:** productivity, projects, launched, tasks\ **Created:** [12 January 2022 16:03 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918 "2022-01-12T16:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Toria\_Somerville](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/toria_somerville/32/85794_2.png) [@Toria\_Somerville](https://forum.asana.com/u/Toria_Somerville)\ **Post date:** [12 January 2022 16:03 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/1 "2022-01-12T16:03:57Z")
Hi Asana team! I’m really loving Asana so far, and finding my productivity has increased SO much from just a few months ago. I’m trying to make the most of My Tasks by creating automatons and rules. I have My Tasks set up by sections based on projects, (and sub-organized by date due) so that i can quickly scan all the projects i’m working on and see tasks due today. In the list view of My Tasks, I’m finding that incoming (newly assigned to me) tasks are stacking up quickly, and get overwhelming. It would be great if you could customize the rules so that I can auto-add incoming tasks from specific projects to a specific section in My Tasks. I can understand why you would want to have people manually move incoming tasks, so users don’t miss when a task is assigned to them. But especially if I am the user who created the task and assigned myself, I’m obviously already aware of it and its just a lot of extra work to move tasks around every day. Could you create the ability to tweak a rule to be something like: New Rule: 1. trigger: “task added to my tasks” 2. ADD: "IF task was created by [myself] and project is [project name] then 3. action: “move task to [section]”. Does that make sense? Would be great to have more specificity to the “if this than that” functionality of rules, in general. This would be super helpful for me. Thank you for considering! ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_McGrath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/rebecca_mcgrath/32/74508_2.png) [@Rebecca\_McGrath](https://forum.asana.com/u/Rebecca_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [12 January 2022 17:33 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/2 "2022-01-12T17:33:44Z")
Hi @Toria_Somerville, thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback! While this feature isn’t available at this time, hopefully it’s something our Product team can implement in the future. I’ll keep you posted and let you know if we have any updates 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Luke\_Barlow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/luke_barlow/32/93015_2.png) [@Luke\_Barlow](https://forum.asana.com/u/Luke_Barlow)\ **Post date:** [18 January 2022 12:23 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/3 "2022-01-18T12:23:43Z")
Hi everyone, Not sure if this is possible: - We have set a rule so that any task added to the project defaults to a section - But we only wanted this to happen when tasks have been created in other projects - If the task is created in the project itself, it should stay in the section it has been placed in Is there any way to do this? Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_McGrath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/rebecca_mcgrath/32/74508_2.png) [@Rebecca\_McGrath](https://forum.asana.com/u/Rebecca_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [18 January 2022 16:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/4 "2022-01-18T16:26:03Z")
Hi @Luke_Barlow, welcome to the Asana Community Forum 👋 While this feature isn’t available at this time, hopefully it’s something our Product team can implement in the future We do have an existing thread for this feature request in the [**#productfeedback**](https://forum.asana.com/c/productfeedback/20) category so I’ve gone ahead and merged your post with the existing one to consolidate feedback. I’ll keep you posted and let you know if I have any updates 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Luke\_Barlow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/luke_barlow/32/93015_2.png) [@Luke\_Barlow](https://forum.asana.com/u/Luke_Barlow)\ **Post date:** [19 January 2022 13:51 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/5 "2022-01-19T13:51:27Z")
Thanks for the reply @Rebecca_McGrath - hopefully this is something you can add in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Tucker\_Jepsen](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Tucker\_Jepsen](https://forum.asana.com/u/Tucker_Jepsen)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2023 17:43 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/6 "2023-07-12T17:43:02Z")
@Rebecca_McGrath Has there been any movement on implementing this feature? This is something my organization would also really like. I think what was mentioned above about adding “If-Then” functionality would be a really useful sorting tool for this platform. ---
**Author:** ![Kristina\_Kurent](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Kristina\_Kurent](https://forum.asana.com/u/Kristina_Kurent)\ **Post date:** [2 August 2023 10:34 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/7 "2023-08-02T10:34:29Z")
Hi, this function would be very welcome for our agency as well - move an assigned task from a certain project to a selected section in my tasks. Please let us know, once when this function will be available. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Bagienski](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Steve\_Bagienski](https://forum.asana.com/u/Steve_Bagienski)\ **Post date:** [27 August 2023 18:54 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/8 "2023-08-27T18:54:52Z")
I would really like this feature as well. It seems like extra work to have to constantly be moving tasks from “recently assigned” to the sections you have in “My Tasks” ---
**Author:** ![James\_Goodheart](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@James\_Goodheart](https://forum.asana.com/u/James_Goodheart)\ **Post date:** [14 September 2023 14:16 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/9 "2023-09-14T14:16:01Z")
I was really looking for this feature as well and I think a found a round about way to accomplish this behavior. I created a custom field for my desired project. Then I added a rule to that project so that all new tasks in that project set that custom field to specific value (name and value don’t really matter as long as they match the next step). Then in My Tasks I created a section rule to new tasks that is triggered when “tasks is moved to my tasks” and the custom field is set to value from my project rule, move to the specific section. Now when a new task is created in my project and assigned to me, it is automatically moved from new tasks to my desired section in My Tasks. Hope this helps ---
**Author:** ![James\_Goodheart](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@James\_Goodheart](https://forum.asana.com/u/James_Goodheart)\ **Post date:** [14 September 2023 14:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/10 "2023-09-14T14:26:48Z")
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for reoccurring tasks, which was the main reason I wanted to implement this so for now using the setting to automatically move reoccurring tasks to last section in my tasks instead of default section ---
**Author:** ![Sara\_Casillas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/sara_casillas/32/134821_2.png) [@Sara\_Casillas](https://forum.asana.com/u/Sara_Casillas)\ **Post date:** [5 January 2024 00:11 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/11 "2024-01-05T00:11:26Z")
Ah! This seemed like a good workaround, but, unfortunately, it only works for Status and Task Priority custom fields. Those don’t seem to be specific for the desired project. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [26 March 2024 03:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/12 "2024-03-26T03:45:42Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Managing Invoice Approvals in Asana: A Workaround Using Tags](https://forum.asana.com/t/managing-invoice-approvals-in-asana-a-workaround-using-tags/753819) ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Jimenez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/alejandro_jimenez/32/262672_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Jimenez](https://forum.asana.com/u/Alejandro_Jimenez)\ **Post date:** [23 September 2024 16:19 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/14 "2024-09-23T16:19:00Z")
I want to create a central project and identify task coming from project x and add corresponding tag. This would really help organizing and summarizing all that is going on a single project for reproposing and seeing the full picture. ---
**Author:** ![FreshyJon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/freshyjon/32/6475_2.png) [@FreshyJon](https://forum.asana.com/u/FreshyJon)\ **Post date:** [10 October 2024 15:48 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/15 "2024-10-10T15:48:54Z")
When a task is added to this project, I’d like to be able to “Check if” - Task is also in another [specified] project - Task has certain text (e.g., `example.com`) in the task name ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [11 October 2024 05:33 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/16 "2024-10-11T05:33:22Z")
@FreshyJon, I think you can vote for each of these: > [@Rule trigger: Task added from specific project](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918): > > Hi Asana team! I’m really loving Asana so far, and finding my productivity has increased SO much from just a few months ago. I’m trying to make the most of My Tasks by creating automatons and rules. I have My Tasks set up by sections based on projects, (and sub-organized by date due) so that i can quickly scan all the projects i’m working on and see tasks due today. In the list view of My Tasks, I’m finding that incoming (newly assigned to me) tasks are stacking up quickly, and get overwhelming… > [@Using custom text fields to trigger rules](https://forum.asana.com/t/using-custom-text-fields-to-trigger-rules/546085): > > Is there a way to trigger rules based on text within a custom field? For example, form is submitted, ‘Partner Name = XXX’ and the rule is ‘when Partner Name = XXX → send Teams notification and set Project Status = Prioritized’. Thanks, Larry ---
**Author:** ![Alana\_Lopez1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Alana\_Lopez1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Alana_Lopez1)\ **Post date:** [8 May 2025 01:01 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/17 "2025-05-08T01:01:45Z")
> [@FreshyJon](#): > > text (e.g., `example.com`) in the task n Hi Asana, has there been any movement on this topic? We want to be able to target an approval task coming from a different project to behave differently than standard tasks added to the board. Being able to check if the task is coming from a specific project would be the exact specificity we need. ---
**Author:** ![Allison\_Giblin](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Allison\_Giblin](https://forum.asana.com/u/Allison_Giblin)\ **Post date:** [3 September 2025 21:00 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/18 "2025-09-03T21:00:01Z")
> [@Rebecca\_McGrath](#): > > #productfeedback @Rebecca_McGrath Hi Asana team! Has there been any progress on this topic? Our organization would find this very valuable. For example: I manage the intake process for our Creative department, and the majority of new tasks are created via a request form. However, there are a few teams that have “side door privileges” and can multi-home new requests from their own project (e.g., Client X team) to our Creative project as a way to flag new requests to me. Is there a way for me to use rules so I can say “if a task is added to this project from “Client X project,” then set the following fields with the following [constant] values”? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Kylie\_Zajdel](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Kylie\_Zajdel](https://forum.asana.com/u/Kylie_Zajdel)\ **Post date:** [21 November 2024 18:52 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/19 "2024-11-21T18:52:08Z")
Could a rule be created so that if the task is from a particular project, I could automate it to go to a particular section in my tasks? ---
**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:** [22 November 2024 13:00 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/20 "2024-11-22T13:00:26Z")
Not at the moment indeed ---
**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:** [23 April 2026 13:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rule-trigger-task-added-from-specific-project/148918/21 "2026-04-23T13:44:36Z")
Hi everyone! I’m excited to announce we just launched A new “Task in project?” condition in the rule builder under Task details. It lets you check whether a task is in one or more selected projects before a rule continues, which makes it easier to build project-aware automations, avoid duplicate actions, and keep workflows cleaner. Thanks for advocating for this feature! Feel free to reach out via the #English Forum > Ask the Community category if you have any questions! ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/4X/0/e/4/0e48f4269687782ed532802bc48827d1cff4bb77.png) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/4X/3/f/e/3fed2f7d3491bb867500bc6b58722410531c3c8e.png) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/4X/b/9/3/b939aa4a643c40e497df8fb07fa2242fc17a7218.png)