Rules to Rename Tasks

I’d like a feature like this. We route all of our incoming work items through forms and every request has the task name “Design, Web & Email Requests” submissions, that we then have to go and rename. Sometimes that’s 50-60 tasks coming in at the same time.

It’d be great if I could rename the task with a field from the form submission that’s already tied to a text field.

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But @John_Loftis, you already can do this with forms (this thread is more about tasks that don’t come in through forms):

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You can choose any set fields in the form, in any order, to become the task title.

Hope that helps,

Larry

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Automatically add task name like {sequence number} + {project name}

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Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Vova3!
I have merged your post into an existing thread so don‘t forget to upvote :slight_smile:
Also have a look at Flowsana as you can achieve this with that tool.

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I feel this is the perfect explaination.

I am setting up a Service Request form and wanted a better way to name the project tasks

I would also like to see this feature.

Our use case:
We receive external tasks that can have multiple categories. One of them is a feature request. These are automatically added to the Feature Request section and I would like to have a rule that also updates the task name as follows: “FR | {task_name}”.

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Yes I’m surprised this isn’t a thing yet, as I’d categorise it as basic functionality for enterprise work management software.

I’ll tell you why I missed this functionality today. I helped move the process for preparing laptops for new hires to Asana. If I was able to set the task name to:
Laptop for {name of new hire}
we would be able to get all of the context from the task name.

Now we need to choose between:

  • All requests having the same name
  • All requests get the name of the new hire

Both don’t give enough context to be able to see at a glance what this task is about.

We have functionality like this in adding comments, and I feel it is needed here.

Hi @Jan-Rienk - Have you tried the rule action Set task name? It exposes most data (including metadata) from the task for renaming.

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@Stephen_Li Thank you for this! I missed that.

I assumed this wasn’t a thing yet, also since the thread was still open.

@Mike_Tammaro I think that solves it?

@lpb I didn’t manage to select multiple fields from the form settings :thinking:

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Not sure if you meant this was new to you or it wasn’t working for you?

@lpb It didn’t work for me, but I see now it was because I was trying to select both the form name and an other value.

I see now I can select multiple items as long as the form name isn’t one of them.

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