Changing task section

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Also looking for this feature to be built-in.

If anyone is interested, this can be achieved using the python API, code snippet below for implementation on a specific project:

# Initialise
api_client = authenticate_asana_client()
tasks_api_instance = asana.TasksApi(api_client)
sections_api = asana.SectionsApi(api_client)

section_id_dict = {'Section name': 'SECTION_ID'} # Lookup IDs for section of interest

project_tasks = get_all_asana_project_tasks()

# Loop though tasks in project
for task in project_tasks:
    # Get task ID
    task_gid = task["gid"]

    # Get all details of task
    task_details = tasks_api_instance.get_task(task_gid, {})

    # Extract task name
    full_task_name = task_details["name"]

    # Extract date last modified
    last_modified = task_details['modified_at']
    last_modified = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(last_modified.replace("Z", "+00:00"))

    # Calculate date 3 months ago
    utc = pytz.UTC  # Get UTC timezone
    three_months_ago = utc.localize(datetime.datetime.utcnow()) - datetime.timedelta(days=3*30)

    # Select only tasks not modified in the past 3 months
    if last_modified < three_months_ago:

        # Loop through projects it is a member of
        for project in task_details['memberships']:

            # Proceed only for the 'Data Requests' project
            if project['project']['name'] == 'Data Requests': # Select Data Requests
                section_name = project['section']['name'] 
                section_ID = project['section']['gid']

                # If section is request, move to icebox
                if section_name == 'Requests':
                    new_section_name = 'Icebox (Old requests)'
                    new_section_id = section_id_dict[new_section_name]
                    move_task_to_section(sections_api, task_details, 
                                                                 new_section_id,new_section_name)
    


def get_all_asana_project_tasks(
    access_token="TOKEN",
    project_id="PID",
):
    """
    Given asana API access token and a project ID, return all tasks as a list of dicts.
    """

    # Configure and authorise asana api
    api_client = authenticate_asana_client(access_token)
    tasks_api_instance = asana.TasksApi(api_client)

    # Get all tasks from project
    # Note project ID can be found in its URL
    task_response = tasks_api_instance.get_tasks_for_project(project_id, {})

    # Convert response into a list
    all_tasks = []
    for t in task_response:
        all_tasks.append(t)

    return all_tasks

def move_task_to_section(sections_api, task_details, new_section_id,new_section_name):
    """Move a task to a new section."""
    opts = {
            'body': {
                'data': {
                    'task': task_details.get('gid')
                }
            }
        }
    sections_api.add_task_for_section(new_section_id, opts)
    print(f"Moved task: {task_details['name']} to {new_section_name}")