Trying to use the send DM in Slack when a task is created

[anon86703077]

I need to know how to send a slack message by using the assignee from the ticket being created. When I try to create this rule it gives me a dropdown list of people, but no place to choose an assignee. Could someone share the logic with me on how to create this?
Thank you,
Dave

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@anon86703077,

This isn’t currently possible in Asana but you can vote for it here:

Using @user variables for targeted commenting using rules

I would really like to have a possibility to target auto comment to a user to whom the task is currently assinged. Example: I have a rule to add a comment on Task Compete action to remind the assignee that he needs to add actual hours spent on a task after he completes the task. And I want that specific user to have notification with his name tagged in inbox with this reminder comment or even have a message personnaly sent to assignee in Slack to remind him about it. The problem is that tasks …

Larry

[anon86703077]

How do you automatically send them an email when the task is created?

[anon86703077]

Thank you Larry

[lpb]

@anon86703077

How do you automatically send them an email when the task is created?

Asana does this via its built-in notification capabilities, and assuming the user asks for email activity; this is not done by rules; same limitation.

Larry