Asana API Question - Upload an Attachment (GDrive Subtype)

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I am trying to use the Upload an Attachment API call to add a google drive attachment to a task. I tried testing the API call directly in the Asana API Reference page with the resource_subtype set to gdrive but I received the following error message: `[403] Cannot upload attachment with resource_subtype: gdrive’. Is this function just not supported yet or is this user error?

Here is the body of my API call
Here is what I have in the body:

{
  "data": {
    "parent": "1208645560847085",
    "resource_subtype": "gdrive",
    "name": "Test Brief Doc",
      "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sOckfv6ku-m0dadwoSh9w6wIJ9XJlMx9gYA3F7BKedE/edit?usp=drivesdk",
      "host": "google"
  }
}
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@John_Baldo @John_Vu I tried a number of variations of parameters as well and was unable to get a GoogleDrive type attachment to upload via the API:

        "error": "attachment_invalid_resource_subtype_on_creation",
        "message": "Cannot upload attachment with resource_subtype: gdrive"

Could you check on this and see if it is possible to do via the API, and the proper parameters to use? Thanks very much!

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Thanks @Phil_Seeman for trying this out yourself.

I tried to reproduce this by:

  1. Attaching a GDrive attachment to a task in the Asana UI/web app
  2. Making a call to Get attachments from an object (GET /attachments) with the task gid for the parent query param → grabbed the attachment gid of the GDrive attachment
  3. Made a call to Get an attachment (GET /attachments/{attachment_gid}) endpoint to look up the GDrive attachment
  4. Used the info from the last step as reference to attach the GDrive attachment using Upload an attachment (POST /attachments) endpoint
  5. Ran into same error message as @Phil_Seeman

I asked around and it seems like this is not support via our API. I’ll see if I can find the team who owns this feature and ask for more details/put in feature request if it’s not supported.

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Hi John - thanks for the response. If there is a feature request for this, could you share it with me? It would be super helpful for some of my clients. Thanks!

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Hi @Shaffaq_Noor, yes, I’ve already submitted a feature request for this.