Heyo fellow Asana enjoyers, I have a challange that I can not overcome. I have a task consisting of several subtasks (which all need to be included as subtasks, othervise the whole process loses its sense). I want to change a “Status” field in my parent task based on which subtask have been completed. I tried to do it with rules and AI, but it doesn’t work automatically. The only thing I can do is to set up a manual rule, that uses AI Studio to determine “Status” field for few tasks at once, but it is not automatic at all. Do you know any way that I can go around it in Asana? I don’t want to pay anything extra for plugins and add-ons.

Subtasks rule - making changes in parent task

Jeremy_Long 23 October 2025 13:43 2

Hi @Michał_Ejmont, it sounds like this may be what you’re looking for, or at least point you in the right direction. 🔋 Automated task progress battery bars to show progress of subtasks

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