Selectively publish and/or approve certain tasks in Project Server 2013

hello forum members,
is there a way in Project Server to selectively publish and /or approve certain tasks?  for example - publish all tasks with new actual. Also, is there a way to auto-publish and not wait until project managers publish their updates?
tatiana
tatiana

It is in the approval center, you'll find the "manage rules" button.
If the replies above were helpful to you, please mark them as an answer so other users with the same concern can refer to it.
Hope this helps,
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