SureTriggers: Asana Integration Guide

In this article, we’ll talk about Asana which is a web app that helps you manage your projects, tasks, and teams more efficiently.

With Asana, you can easily create to-do lists, assign tasks to team members, set deadlines, and track progress.

Using tools like Asana can help you stay organized and productive, but it can also be time-consuming and repetitive for team members.

Tasks like creating tasks, updating them, and notifying stakeholders of progress can feel like a never-ending cycle, leading to decreased morale and productivity.

Fortunately, you don’t have to suffer through these repetitive tasks as we have a solution – Automation with SureTriggers!

With SureTriggers, you can automate many of the processes like automatically creating tasks in Asana from form submissions, updating task information from Slack messages, etc. making your work less stressful and more enjoyable.

So if you want automation to take care of repetitive tasks, let’s begin understanding how you can connect your Asana account with SureTriggers and create automated workflows.

What is SureTriggers?

SureTriggers is an automation tool that connects one app to another to automate processes. With SureTriggers, you can create automated workflows that perform action events in apps when a trigger event happens in the other app.

For example, you can set up a workflow to automatically create an Asana task when you receive an email from a certain sender or to send a message in Slack when an Asana task is marked as complete.

How Does Automation Work in SureTriggers?

Automation in SureTriggers is based on a setup of trigger events and action events.

Triggers are the events that start your workflow, while actions are the tasks that are performed when a trigger event is received.

One complete setup of triggers and actions is called a workflow, for example, sending a Slack message when a task is created in Asana.

Asana-related Processes that Can be Automated with SureTriggers

There are many Asana-related processes that you can automate with SureTriggers, such as:

• Automatically creating new tasks in Asana when new emails are received
• Automatically creating new Asana tasks for upcoming events on your calendar
• Automatically archiving completed tasks in Asana to keep your project board organized and clutter-free
• Automatically creating a new task in Asana for each new lead or opportunity in your CRM system
• Automatically creating Asana tasks for new orders in your e-commerce platform
• Automatically adding Asana tasks for new messages in a Slack channel
• Automatically send reminders to team members in Slack when Asana tasks are approaching their due dates
• Automatically creating tasks from form submissions

Triggers & Actions for Asana in SureTriggers

Some of the available actions for Asana in SureTriggers are:

• Create Task
• Update Task
• Add User to Workspace
• Add User to Team
• Create Project
• Update Project
• Get Project
• Create Tag
• Update Tag
• Find Project
• Find Task

How to Connect Asana with SureTriggers?

To connect Asana with SureTriggers, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your SureTriggers account.
2. Click on “Apps” from the left sidebar.

3. Click on the “Add New Connection” button.

4. Search for “Asana” in the search bar.

5. Click on the Asana icon from the results.

A new tab will open.

6. Click on the Developer Console to go to your Asana developer console.

7. Click on the “Create New Token” button in your Asana developer console.

8. Give a name to this token. This is just for your reference.

9. Click on Create Token button.

10. Copy the generated token.

11. Return to the SureTriggers connection tab and paste the token in the Personal Access Token field.

12. Give a reference name to identify the Asana account that you’re connecting and click on Connect Asana button.

Once you have completed these steps, your SureTriggers account will be connected to your Asana account.

Note: Access tokens are important credentials that you should not share with anyone. The token that you see in the above screenshots are test tokens that are already deleted.

How to Create Asana-related Workflows in SureTriggers?

Now that you have connected Asana with SureTriggers, you can start creating Asana-related workflows.

That means you will be able to take actions in your Asana account when a trigger event happens in any other app or take actions in other apps when events happen in your Asana account.

So what are you waiting for? 

Simply, sign in to your SureTriggers account and start creating workflows. And if you do not know how to create workflows, you can learn from here.

Hope this article helps. Let us know if you need any!