🐞 Unable to set global field values on recurring tasks

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @George_McDougall , this you may want to check out this existing thread which contains a notable workaround and existing posts which you can vote on:

Recurring Tasks status change

Hi @Mohammad_Nimer , welcome to the forum What you are experiencing with recurring tasks is expected behaviour, since it actually duplicates the task, along with the values of any custom fields. Unfortunately it is not possible to overcome this issue by using a rule because the recurring tasks is not treated as a new task added to the project. So both triggers ‘task is moved to a section’ or ‘task is added to this project’ have no effect for this case, in order to action the status, for…