Asana
Query from Asana into Google Sheets or Post data from Google Sheets into Asana using Sheet Director.
What is Sheet Director?
Sheet Director is a G Suite add-on that helps to manage and control bi-directional data flow between Google Sheets and several other applications like Google Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Sheets, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Zoho,PayPal etc.
It is available in the G Suite Marketplace and Chrome Web Store. Please check Installation instructions to install the add-on.
What is Asana?
Asana Is… Well, it's a tool for organizing personal or team work, basing the system on individual tasks framed into bigger projects. It's a faithful friend in the fight with deadlines and work chaos. Asana was created to replace the use of email for work communication and collaboration
Use Case(s)
> Pull all data from Asana objects and store it into a spreadsheet.
Asana
Sheet Director
Google Sheets
Setting up Asana in Sheet Director
Choose App and Service:
- Select Asana from the list of applications.
- Select service as Query.
- Switch on Run Automatically if the queries needs to be executed in regular intervals.
Asana Configuration
- Click on connect to Asana to connect to Asana so that you can pull data.
- If Asana is connected successfully the following screen appears.
- Select the Workspaces
- Select the Filters as required.
- Filters include fields, matches, value.
- Select the maximum result that is required.
- Select the destination sheet to save the data or create a new sheet by clicking the Add new icon.
- Click on execute to pull the data into sheet
- Click save to save the service
Google Sheet to Asana - Post
- Select the workspaces that you need to post to
- Select the required entity
- Select Apply Template or Setup Mapping
- Select Apply Template to add a default template.
- Select Setup Manually to select manually.
Source Sheet
- Choose the sheet that contains post records.
- Enter the Start at cell value
(the default value is A1, if you change the value you need to refresh the header by clicking on refresh icon on side)
- Select the Status column
- If status column is not there, simply click the +button to add the status header on your sheet(A status column will be created in Spreadsheet)
- Select the Result column
- If result column is not there, simply click the +button to add the result header on your sheet(A result column will be created in Spreadsheet)
Mapping
- After selecting the entity it will ask for intelligent mapping
- If you need to do intelligent mapping click on yes
- Intelligent mapping will map the matching fields automatically
- You can do manual mapping by selecting Column drop down
- You can delete the field by click on delete icon on top of each filed map
- You can't delete mandatory* fields
- Click on execute will ask for confirmation
- Click save to save the service
- It will show number of records ready to post
- Click post now to post the records on Google Tasks
Sample Output
It will show the count of number of records posted successfully and failed to post.
