On my personal board I’ve got some rules so that when I move tasks between sections on my board, it’s reflected on our teams main board
These are as simple as “When task is moved to ” → “Add to project and column “”
Like I say, this has been working fine until last week or so (first noticed Tuesday 28th October), when my rule starts firing when anybody moves my task on the team board, so:
My task is in My board: In Progress, Team board: In Progress
Joe moves my task to Completed on Team board
My rule “When task is moved to In Progress” fires, and moves the task back to the team In Progress column
Note: In fact, I just tested and this happens even if I move the task myself, on the team board. This effectively means that noone can move these tasks on the other board. This definitely didn’t happen before….
What I’d expect is that my rule would never fire if someone moves a task in the other board, because the rule is for my board and the task is never being moved there?
I’ve looked for a way to gate my rule on some kind of condition like “If the task is in column X on other board”, but that doesn’t seem to be available?
Question for you, is there also a custom field for status (or something similar) that may be updating with the move between sections? Are there other rules that are updating some field or something based on some other field update on the Team board?
You can also check the All Activity at the bottom of the task and see what rule is firing that moves the task on your board. You should see Asana (with Asana as a link) and a description of what the rule did. By clicking on Asana or hovering over it you will see the rule that is being triggered.
I just want to double check what do you mean by “my board” versus “team board”?
Are you referring to your My Tasks space in board view? Or a separate project where you keep your work or a personalised tab in the same project used by everyone?
If it’s the latter, the rules will apply to any of the project’s tab, so it would be the expected behaviour. Let me know!
I would try removing and rebuilding the rules, just in case it’s some odd glitch. The rules in your My Tasks should not be triggering actions outside of My Tasks, even if you have sections (columns) named identically in both spaces.
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Asana (with Asana as a link) and a description of what the rule did. By clicking on Asana or hovering over it you will see the rule that is being triggered.