Create Activity feed to Teams & Projects

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So you can now filter by project updates in the inbox which is very welcome. Just need to filter by team and I think that will really nail it.

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My workaround here has been to:

  1. Create a Slack channel
  2. Add Rules to post to that Slack channel when certain events happen in the project.

PROS

  • You can control what events are worthy of being notified about.
  • You can tailor the messages to be event-specific.
  • Easy to include links to the tasks so you can hop right into Asana from Slack.
  • Easy to share with anyone else within your org that’s on Slack but maybe not a big Asana user.

CONS

  • If you want to alert on every change you’ll need to create a lot of rules to capture all the possibilities.
  • Doesn’t help if your org doesn’t use Slack.
  • If it’s a busy project people might end up muting the Slack channel.

MY EXPERIENCE
I’ve been trying this approach for the past week in a project where I only really care when new tasks are created and when the custom status field we’ve added changes and it’s been a HUGE help.

In our situation there are hundreds of tasks being juggled and even if you spent 100% of your time in there you’d need a photographic memory to keep track of how things have changed or what has been added (and especially if you check in a couple times a week or even less frequently).

With my approach, on Monday morning all I had to do was check slack and it was clear as day that 14 new tasks had been created since Friday. Without this integration setup I may not have even checked on it till midweek and even then, you are only vaguely aware that things have moved but with the Slack integration my understanding is way more precise.

Later that day my boss asked what’s the latest and my reply of “14 new tasks came in over the weekend, we’re reviewing now” was a lot more useful and specific than the usual “there’s some movement in there”. I then invited them to the slack channel and they found being able to scroll through the list of activity on their own time really valuable for staying in the loop :+1:

TL;DR — please add project-level Activity Feeds!
Until then, perhaps the above workaround helps some of you!

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@cosmo , I would note that this workaround also works for sending to a channel in MS Teams, too.

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