Set up an Asana connection

Who can use this feature?

• Organization administrators.
• Available for Essentials, Accelerate, and Enterprise.

Set up an Asana connection in the platform so your team can send data from Advanced Projects and Tasks to an Asana project. With an Asana connection, you can push tasks into Asana and manage their progress there. There’s no limit to the number of issue tracking connections you can have in your organization, so if you have multiple Asana instances or use multiple issue tracking tools, you can connect each of them to the platform.

On this page:

• Set up an Asana connection
• Create the connection from the Control Hub
• Create an issue tracking connection from the Project page

Set up an Asana connection

Create your personal access token in Asana

To create your personal access token in Asana:

1. Open the Asana developer console.
2. Select Create new token.
3. Enter the token name.
4. Confirm you agree to the Asana API Terms.
5. Select Create token.
6. Select Copy.
7. Paste the personal access token in a word processor to use later. Note you won't be able to access this token again.
8. Choose Done.

Learn more about Asana personal access tokens.

Create the connection from the Control Hub

To set up your issue tracking connection with Asana:

1. Select the Control hub and choose Tools and integrations.
2. Select Add connection and choose Asana.
3. Select Continue.
4. Choose the workspaces you want to grant access to. Note that you can edit workspace access after creating the connection.
5. Select Continue.
6. Paste the token into the personal access token field.
7. Select Add connection.

Create the connection from the Project page

To set up a new issue tracking connection: 

1. Go to Projects/tasks.
2. Find the project you want to open and select View project.  
3. Depending on whether issue tracking has been configured for this project:
   1. Select either Connect issue tracking or Edit issue tracking. 
   2. In the Connect to issue tracking software dialog, select set up a new one. 
   3. On the Add connection page, select Asana as the issue tracking application you want to connect, and then select Continue.
   4. Proceed to set up this connection.  After you have set up the new connection, the Project page is redisplayed.

You can now connect your Asana instance to a project.