Asana
Google Sheets + Asana Integration
Query from Asana into Google Sheets or Post data from Google Sheets into Asana
What is Sheet Director?
Sheet Director is a Google Workspace 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 Google Workspace Marketplace. Please check the 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
Asana to Google Sheets: Use Case(s)
> Pull data from Asana objects and store it into a spreadsheet - Query
> Post data from Google Sheets into Asana objects - Post
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.
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 entity required.
Select the required fields.
Mention the max results required.
Destination Settings:
Configure the destination settings to save the executed data.
Scheduler Settings:
Switch on Run automatically to execute services automatically in background.
Notification Settings:
Configure the Notification settings to setup the email templates and add attachments.
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 Asana
Sample Output
It will show the count of number of records posted successfully and failed to post.
