Hi Asana pro’s (I feel like the “how to Asana” lady when I say that) Is there a way to use an already established mix of apps on Zapier to trigger an action when a subtask is completed or not completed?

They would be Guest only on a subtask, but indeed you should not comment on it ^^ There is now task dependencies, maybe that can help being notified when subtasks are checked, but you would need to act manually on the next subtask… I don’t have any other idea…

Cool, I can work with that. Administration is the killer of productivity - I’m trying to remove so I can keep the team focused on what matters. Cheers for your input, great council @Bastien_Siebman

I am sure others from the community may have other great ideas, let’s wait.

SO, I touched base with my Dev and it appears there isn’t even an API to see the subtask event occur. “Asana API doesn’t have that option at all. You can create subtasks, you can even “get” subtasks for a certain task, but you cannot get subtask events”

If you are able to detect a task being completed, you should be able to do the same with a subtask (that is a task with a parent task). You could also have a look at the webhooks, attach a webhook to each subtask and make it trigger a custom made script that will send an email to your client. I have…

Ok, so the PHP code you have only act’s as a trigger? I’d be really interested if this was the case as I’ve got a few uses for it. If it creates emails I think I’m good for that at the time being.

I have the code to create a webhook and the code to answer to webhook callbacks from Asana.

I have no experience with webhooks sorry. It sounds like you have something though that will work. :slight_smile: How would you like to proceed?

I am contacting you by private message

Hey folks, subtasks are indeed quite hard to deal with in the Asana API. To listen for subtask events, the best I know is to use the Event API, which has events for subtask updates on a project level. Build an app with Asana Learn the basics of Asana's developer platform …

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