# Default Task Associations **URL:** \ **Category:** HubSpot Ideas\ **Tags:** tasks\ **Created:** [June 8, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607 "2022-06-08T16:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tmcginnis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tmcginnis/32/4408_2.png) [@tmcginnis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tmcginnis)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/1 "2022-06-08T16:19:06Z")
Please make it so we can change the default Task association feature. Currently, no matter where a task is created (Company, Deal, Contact or Ticket Record), it automatically associates the task with all of those objects and the 5 most recent Deals or Tickets. There should be a global setting to change this behavior. ---
**Author:** ![MoniPort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@MoniPort](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MoniPort)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/2 "2023-04-20T18:10:32Z")
This is a needed feature. Especially when Task are created on deals we need to also associate the task on the contact record. ---
**Author:** ![RyC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@RyC](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RyC)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/3 "2023-07-20T18:28:36Z")
Really need this. I don’t want a task created in a Deal to be associated with a related Company. We should be able to manage these defaults. ---
**Author:** ![Hildegaard](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/hildegaard/32/66470_2.png) [@Hildegaard](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Hildegaard)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:24am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/4 "2023-11-02T08:24:33Z")
Couldn’t agree more. Frustrating that I by default create 2 associations when the task is only relevant on a specific contact. Similar idea here: [https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Customize-HubSpot-default-deal-association-labels/idi-p/794406](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Customize-HubSpot-default-deal-association-labels/idi-p/794406) ---
**Author:** ![JTree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@JTree](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JTree)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/5 "2024-03-25T15:22:45Z")
I completely agree. We use tasks in tickets, where we have workflows creating tasks in the ticket. The next activate date that is set based on the task is used in a ‘date due’ property that we have created. Where the ticket associates tasks that are on the contact/company automatically, it is messing this up as the next activity date gets impacted by the company/contact task where we only want it to use the ticket tasks. Therefore if we could have a system setting to stop contact/company tasks automatically being associated to new tickets etc, that would be extremely useful. ---
**Author:** ![GBReposit20](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/gbreposit20/32/14727_2.png) [@GBReposit20](https://community.hubspot.com/u/GBReposit20)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/6 "2024-04-30T15:06:45Z")
This needs to be done ASAP, no brainer! ---
**Author:** ![VDACOSTA-3DD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@VDACOSTA-3DD](https://community.hubspot.com/u/VDACOSTA-3DD)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 8:19am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/7 "2024-05-02T08:19:29Z")
I fully agree. Most of our notes and tasks are specific to one deal, we do not need them in the companies or contacts. ---
**Author:** ![BThomas4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@BThomas4](https://community.hubspot.com/u/BThomas4)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/8 "2024-08-08T02:00:52Z")
10000% agree. It should only associate to the ‘deal’ by default, not to the company. Very frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![EFlores\_Paula](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/eflores_paula/32/47045_2.png) [@EFlores\_Paula](https://community.hubspot.com/u/EFlores_Paula)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/9 "2024-08-16T16:49:56Z")
My support team is having the hardest time adopting HubSpot tickets and tasks becasue every time they open a task, instead of going to a ticket, they go to the company and get super confused by all the information there that has nothing to do wiht the task or ticket. Please fix this yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![OPetitjean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eada6e/32.png) [@OPetitjean](https://community.hubspot.com/u/OPetitjean)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/10 "2024-08-30T12:52:50Z")
Upvoting! ---
**Author:** ![JMatthews3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@JMatthews3](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JMatthews3)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/11 "2025-01-17T03:44:39Z")
Hear hear! When rungin through task lists, I don’t want to land on the Company the task was created for, I want the actual task. It’s a real pain to have to unselect company in the association list every time we make a task - surely, there could be functionality to set standard associations across all users? ---
**Author:** ![LauraRoberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@LauraRoberts](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LauraRoberts)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/default-task-associations/58607/12 "2025-04-11T13:05:28Z")
There are options to set the default behavior for the associations (as an admin, settings → objects → activities → associations tab)- but they don’t work in a way that’s intuitive and don’t have the options I’d likely want. If you have the deals → tasks combination, so a task created on a deal page, and you choose “primary company” for the default company association but “none” on the deals (because that will still associate it with the deal you created the task from), if the company → tasks has deals association set to “5 most recently associated” (which is the default for some reason), it’ll associate with the primary company, and then the 5 most recent deals for that company anyway, in a cascade. Tasks don’t make sense to propogate like that. Tasks are generally related to 1 thing primarily, and everything else at most you want to be alerted that there’s a task in a related area. If it’s something you’re doing with a contact, you don’t want it to be seen in deals. If it’s something to do with a deal, you don’t want to have it in a different deal’s Q because that’s just confusing. I’ve turned everything to “none”, hopefully that gives the behavior I want, even if I felt the need to verify that setting would still associate with the record it was created within. What I can’t fathom is why people thought tasks wouldn’t be confusing when showing up in other records. My AMS team is currently cleaning up associations to figure out what in the world they actually have done or not. They’re frustrated enough they want to abandon Hubspot entirely.