# Global Settings — Failure Handling

The **Settings** tab (GravityOps → Asana → Settings) holds plugin-wide
options that apply to every feed. Today it covers **failure handling**:
where the "Task Creation Failed" backup task goes when automatic task
creation cannot complete.

These options are global on purpose. They are deliberately kept separate
from individual feed settings so that a feed whose project or assignee has
been deleted (a common cause of failures) cannot also break the safety
net meant to catch that failure.

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### Fallback project

- The Asana project the backup **Task Creation Failed** task is added to.
- Putting every backup in one fixed project keeps these notices findable
  instead of floating loose in someone's task list.
- **Do not** point this at a project that a feed actively uses — if that
  project is the reason a task failed (renamed, deleted, access lost),
  reusing it would just fail again.
- If left blank, the backup task is created in the connected account's
  workspace without a project.

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### Fallback assignee

- Who the backup task is assigned to.
- If left blank — or if the chosen user is later removed from the
  workspace — the backup falls back to the **connected Asana user**.
- Assignment is best-effort; the **fallback project** is what guarantees
  the task can be found, so set a project even if you leave the assignee
  blank.

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### Notes

- The dropdowns list the projects and users the **connected Asana
  account** can access. Connect on the **Connection** tab first if the
  lists are empty.
- The backup task is created defensively: if the configured project or
  assignee no longer exists at the time of a failure, the plugin degrades
  gracefully (connected user, no project) so the notice is never lost.
- Recent failures are also surfaced in the **Asana Integration dashboard
  widget**, and the technical error is recorded on the Gravity Forms
  entry. See **Troubleshooting → Task Creation Failed → Backup Task
  Behavior**.