Asana
Asana to Google Sheets: 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
Asana to Google Sheets: Use Case(s)
> Pull all data from Asana objects and store it into a spreadsheet.
> Post data from Google Sheets into Asana objects.
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.
Select the destination sheet to save the data or create a new sheet by clicking the Add new icon.
Click on Clear Sheet before execution to clear old sheet data.
Scheduler Settings:
Switch on Run automatically to execute services automatically in background.
Notification Settings:
Switch on Notify on Execution if notification email needs to be send during execution.
Click on Setup Email Template and customize the email as required.
Click on Pick Drive Files to attach files from Drive to email.
Switch on Add attachments from Google Sheets to add attachments from Google sheets.
Select the required sheet tab.
Select Full Sheet or Range.
If range is selected select the required range.
Switch on Attach PDF to attach the sheet tab as PDF.
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.
