<h2>Create and assign project tasks from Project Workspace</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2024" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2024" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="task" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Create and assign project tasks from Project Workspace" /><meta name="abstract" content="Add new tasks for your projects and assign them to your team directly from the new Project Workspace." /><meta name="description" content="Add new tasks for your projects and assign them to your team directly from the new Project Workspace." /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2022-08-04" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2022-08-04" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Create and assign project tasks from Project Workspace</title></head><body id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace"> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Create and assign project tasks from Project Workspace</h1> <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">Add new tasks for your projects and assign them to your team directly from the new Project Workspace.</p> <div class="section prereq p" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__prereq_ljv_k4y_hsb"> <p class="p">Role required: it_project_manager</p> </div> <ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Open a project in the planning console of Project Workspace.</span> <div class="itemgroup info">For information on how to navigate to the planning console, see <a class="xref" href="access-new-project-workspace.html" title="Learn how to navigate to the new Project Workspace and open a project in the planning console.">Access the new Project Workspace</a>.</div> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Select <span class="ph uicontrol">Add Task</span>.</span> <div class="itemgroup info"> <p class="p">A new row is added to the bottom of the data grid of the planning console, with <span class="ph uicontrol">New Task</span> as the default name for the task.</p> <p class="p">Alternatively, select a project task row and click the Add task below icon (<img class="image icon" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__image_hp5_5hj_gtb" src="../image/icon-add-task.png" alt="Add task icon." />). This action adds a new task right below the task that you selected.<img class="image" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__image_pxz_s3j_gtb" src="../image/add-task-below-option.png" height="156" width="537" alt="Add task." /></p> </div> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Edit the details of the task.</span> <div class="itemgroup info">For example, task name, planned dates, assigned to, and others.</div> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"><strong>Optional: </strong> <span class="ph cmd">Press the Enter key to save the details and create a row for another task.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Click anywhere on the data grid outside the task fields to save the details.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Assign a task to a user by updating the <span class="ph uicontrol">Assigned to</span> field.</span> <div class="itemgroup info"> <p class="p">The user who is assigned this task to, is sent an email notification and is also notified in the <span class="ph">ServiceNow®</span> instance when they log in.</p> <p class="p">For notifications to work, your admin must enable them by setting the <span class="ph uicontrol">Project task assigned to</span> notification record as <span class="ph uicontrol">true</span> in Email Notifications and Provider Notifications.</p> </div> </li></ol> <div class="section postreq" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__postreq_yj5_kjj_gtb"> <div class="p"><ul class="ul" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__ul_tdp_ljj_gtb"><li class="li">Make the new task a subtask of an existing task or a sub project by using the indent task icon(<img class="image icon" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__image_h1x_v3j_gtb" src="../image/icon-indent-task.png" alt="Indent task icon." />).<p class="p"><img class="image" id="create-a-project-task-from-project-workspace__image_rd4_w3j_gtb" src="../image/indent-task-option.png" height="171" width="537" alt="Indent task." /></p> </li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="update-project-task-from-project-workspace.html" title="Update the details of existing tasks from the planning console of the project workspace.">Update a project task from the project workspace</a>.</li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </body></html></div>