I have an approval subtask. When it is marked as approved, I want Asana to automatically change a custom field in the main task.
Is there a way that I can do this with Asana’s current setup? The closest I’ve gotten is setting up the rule to check if subtasks are complete under a main task, but this does not fix the issues as a rejected approval is also a closed task.
I realize this is not currently available in asana as a feature, but can we add this to the sprint if we think this is helping everyone ?
I tried using dependencies and “when a task is no longer blocked”, hoping a rejected approval would not count as unblocking. It does though, so that’s not a solution either.
I know this sounds a little hacky, but what if you set a rule that checks if an approval is set to “Rejected” and then have it create another task so that could possibly eliminate the issue with “all subtasks being completed”.
Wanted to +1 for enabling approval subtasks to trigger a main task change.
My situation:
A task (a thing to be voted on) lands in our approval project board. We change it to an approval…
We then create subtasks:
• One each for the 2 people do the initial vote (Let’s call this Initial Votes)
If both votes of Initial Votes are “Reject” the main task is updated to “Reject” and trigger new tasks — ideally with the Main task attached. (Tasks are: Let Veto know; Do follow-up comms)
If both votes of Initial Vote are “Accept” the main task is updated to “Accept” and trigger new tasks — ideally with the Main task attached. (Tasks are: Let Veto know; Do an additional task; Do follow-up comms)
If the 2 Initial Votes are different OR if an Initial Vote is “Needs Changes”, move Main task to Discussion section.
I realize this is chaining a lot of events together, but this is our team’s workflow and we do this frequently enough that we need to track via tasks / approvals.
At the least it would be really useful to have approval subtasks trigger a change in the main approval.
Would love to hear suggestions for workarounds in the meantime.
