Create Asana Notification

Introduction

When working in a team it is crucial to know what needs to be done and what is being worked on. Asana is such a tool that allows to create tasks for each member of the team and colleagues can collaborate on them.

We integrated Asana into Amber Signals so you can integrate important information from outside of your company into the workflow. This allows you to have actionable tasks right away.

Create Asana Channel

Creating the Asana integration is very simple, but we need two very important information:

1. API Key

2. Project ID

The API Key allows us to create tasks for you and the Project ID knows where the tasks should be created.

Creating Asana API Key

In Asana it is called a Personal access token or PAT and we need to create one. Open https://app.asana.com/0/my-apps and click Create new token.

Create new token on Asana

Give it a good description (e.g. Amber Signals) so you can remember where it is used. Copy the token, we need it later in the Dashboard.

Finding Asana Project ID

This seems to be a bit more complicated, but we have a screenshot for you. We need to copy the project id from the url when you have the project open.

Open a new browser tab and open the project. In the browser bar you see a url with two long ids. The first id is the Project ID. Copy that one for later.

Asana Project ID

In our example the project id is the one with the red underline.

Create Asana Channel

Open our Dashboard and click Asana to create a new channel.

Create Asana Channel

Choose a Description that reminds you to which project the tasks will be created, The Project ID is the first number from the URL when you have the Asana project open and the API Key is the PAT we created earlier. Once added we will create new tasks when a notification is triggered.