Question: is the integration with Microsoft Teams still being developed?
The Teams integration was just referenced in a blog post a few days ago (Feb. 22, 2018) so, while I’m assuming it is still being developed, I ask the question because I don’t recall seeing any changes / additions / improvements to this integration since it first ‘officially’ launched about a year ago. (I could be wrong about that, though.)
Notably-absent is the ability to view the details/description for a task from within a project that’s been added to a channel in Teams. Clicking on a task just launches that task in the browser — which I would venture to guess is not a behavior anyone would immediately expect in that scenario.
I realize it’s a slippery slope for 3rd-party integrations. Specifically: if you un-ceasingly build out the integration itself, you’ll find yourself re-building the whole app (e.g., Asana) from within the 3rd-party application (e.g., Microsoft Teams). No point in doing that.
That said, I feel like viewing the details of a task represents basic/core functionality — which can already be seen in other Teams integrations from similar services such as Wrike or Trello (to name a couple of examples).
One of the ways in which I would be looking to use Asana projects within ‘channels’ in Teams would be to discuss a project agenda with colleagues — and not being able to see details for any tasks in the project puts a significant limit on the ability to finish that conversation without jumping around in different windows.
I’d like to add some commentary here as I just got around to integrating Asana and Teams as our company evaluates using Microsoft Teams instead of Slack.
I agree that being able to see some more details, such as the task description/details would be great. Or if we’re limited to the high-level view, being able to display project custom fields or sort by assignee/date/section/etc. would be great. If it’s technically possible, then clicking on a task should present the task details as an overlay window and from there show the same level of detail that you’d see in the right-pane in Asana (subtasks, comments, etc.).
As it currently stands, clicking the task bounces you out of Teams and into Asana with that particular task pulled up. While this is quick and perhaps too easy to do (lots of accidental clicks on a wide screen monitor), it kind of interrupts the flow. Adding the ability to custom sort by due date or assignee within Teams, or have Teams mimic the default sort order for the Asana project would be helpful as well. As it is currently designed, it doesn’t really provide much insight into what the team is actively working on, or what deadlines we may be in jeopardy of missing.
As @Jason mentioned, I understand the strain on development resources and it seems silly to basically recreate identical Asana functionality into a third party platform (especially one that may not have a ton of usage just yet). I also don’t know if some of the reason this isn’t developed is because of limitations put in place with the Teams API and how apps can render or work.
Would love to see the work continue on this integration, and if some of the desired functionality mentioned above is in fact there and I am just missing it, please let me know!
We too would love to see this continue to be developed. We use (and love) Asana but the integration just isn’t quite there with Teams. We are an Outlook 365 shop and there is so much available within Teams but the built in MS Planner is too clunky. The integration roadmap between Sharepoint and Teams is becoming more and more powerful and as a company we are using SP for all of our document management. I seriously doubt if we’ll use Asana for file management.
Adding my hope that the integration efforts continue - at least to bring it on par with Wrike integration with Teams.
Quick fix - PLEASE show sections as something other than tasks in the Teams tab. Even excluding tabs is better than showing sections as just another task. I know this is tied into the revamp of sections vis a vis the list/board swap update.
Tony from the Asana platform team here. Thank you all for the feedback in this thread! We do plan on enhancing our Microsoft Teams integration this year to address issues such as supporting sections and board projects. We will likely also consider adding the ability to drill down into task details via Teams. If you have other feedback or requests on what you would like to see in the Teams integration, please share your input!
Hi @TonyC, is there anything new on the ability for view boards in Microsoft Teams?
I tried it in the web version of Teams and I use Asana Basic, but only lists are showing.
Do you have any news on those integrations? @Marie posted in July that Boards are supported, but I don’t see it, neither I do see tasks details. Is Asana Premium required for Boards in Teams?
I’d appreciate just being able to get Asana alerts in Teams that link to tasks. Asana’s limited functionality in Teams is the only thing keeping us clinging to Slack.
Hi all, since the Asana tab integration was released in 2017, both Asana and Microsoft Teams has undergone many changes. There are now new and additional functionality for Teams integrations beyond the tab, and what we built back in 2017 is no longer the best way to use these tools together. Here’s how we recommend linking Microsoft Teams to an Asana project:
Seeing and managing your Asana project from a Teams tab
This was the original intention of the integration, however, building a project view specific to Microsoft Teams meant that as Asana obtained new functionality, the tab view in Teams didn’t receive these updates (like sections, boards, grid view) and has been costly to maintain. The view in Teams has also been far less functional and featured than regular Asana in your browser.
On the other hand since the integration was launched, the ability for Teams to function as a browser and show a normal webpage has improved.
So instead of using the Asana tab integration, we now recommend adding your Asana project as a “Website” tab. This can be done by choosing the website option when adding a tab:
Instead of investing in simply rebuilding a less functional Asana view of a project in Teams with the integration, we’ll be exploring new functionality that has been made available in Teams that can add more value as an integration. Some of the functionality we’re currently evaluating include:
An Asana Bot to deliver (filtered) notifications and perform actions such as creating tasks.
Richer experiences when Asana task/project/portfolio links are shared in conversations.
Message actions to find a relevant task to share or create a task from a conversation.
If you have other use cases or ideas for the Asana and Teams integration to be able to handle, please leave a comment below!
This would be amazing! We’re in the middle of a 200 person shift from Teams for work coordination to Asana, and there is a lot of resistance since chat is so simple. So it’s extremely heartening to see your team is shifting to the more relevant integrations such as a bot, rich share cards for Asana links and message actions (double-vote) or even create task from a message (look to Jira’s integration).
After testing the Asana tab integration, my first instinct was to switch to using a web tab, so will continue recommending that internally. However, it would be great to get an idea of what kind of timeline is expected for the new Teams functionality; I know Microsoft has made it very easy to kick-start as we’ve used it ourselves a number of times.
Hello,
We’ve released our new Microsoft Teams integration today (New, improved Microsoft Teams integration!)
The new integration is an Asana bot in Teams that facilitates unfurling Asana links, message actions to create tasks or add chat messages to existing tasks, as well as connecting a project or your My Tasks to receive notifications in Teams. These notifications are also configurable so you can control the amount of noise in your Teams channels.
You’ll find more information in the above linked post as well as our guide here Asana for Microsoft Teams - The Asana Blog
The integration can be found on Microsoft Team’s app directory.
Question - how can I turn on notification in teams for an assigned task connected with a date and time. For example, I set a task for myself for today at 11:00am. I received the notification when the task was created but not at 11:00am when the task was due.
