Productivity

Connect Asana with Glow

Asana holds the task lists and project timelines a lot of teams run on day to day. Connect it to Glow to trigger workflows off new or completed tasks, and to create tasks automatically from customer requests, calendar events or anything else happening in your other tools.

Connect Asana

What you can do

Triggers

  • New taskFires when a new task is created in a project.
  • Task completedFires when a task is marked complete.
  • Task assignedFires when a task is assigned to a user.
  • Due date approachingFires a set amount of time before a task’s due date.

Actions

  • Create taskCreate a new task with a name, assignee and due date.
  • Update taskChange fields, assignee or due date on an existing task.
  • Complete taskMark an existing task as complete.
  • Add commentPost a comment to an existing task.

Use cases

Client request to task

A new record added to the client requests base in Airtable automatically creates a task assigned to the right team member.

Deadline nudges

Tasks due within 24 hours get a reminder posted to the assignee’s Slack DM automatically.

Closed deal, onboarding tasks created

When a deal closes in Salesforce, a full onboarding checklist gets created in Asana automatically, assigned to the customer success team.

How it works

1

Connect your account

Authorize Glow to access your Asana account in a couple of clicks — no API keys or webhooks to configure by hand.

2

Pick a trigger or action

Choose one of Asana's triggers to start a workflow, or drop in one of its actions as a step further down the chain.

3

Map the data

Wire fields from Asana into the rest of your workflow — Glow handles the formatting so every step downstream gets what it expects.

4

Turn it on

Publish the workflow and Glow runs it automatically from then on, every time the trigger fires.