The CSV Import tool appears to have changed from last week. We currently use a CSV file to import all the tasks for a particular project as we set it up. The CSV file contains fields that used to map to the Asana task fields. The new import process: A) Doesn’t recognize the field “Collaborator” as…

@James_Carl as the CSV expert hère, any input?

It’s the new importer that 1) doesn’t appear to be working and 2) eliminates functionality the old importer contained.

Welcome to the Forum @Karol_Dixon_de_la_O and thank you for taking time to report this! In order to fully understand the situation here, could you please send me by DM a screenshot of your CSV file? This would be super helpful to understand the situation and assist you further! Looking forward to…

Apologies for the delay in responding to you @Karol_Dixon_de_la_O . Marie here, stepping in for @Natalia . So from what I understand, when importing your CSV and trying to remap “Collaborator” and “Tags”, you can’t find these options in the dropdown menu. Is there any chance you’ve already used these…

Take a look at your new CSV importer – the fields for Collaborator, Tags and a couple others we don’t use are no longer in the drop down options: [image] [image] Instead, they are mapped as custom fields with drop-down selections which is NOT the same as mapping directly to the Asana designated …

@Karol_Dixon_de_la_O , I just spoke with the PM in charge of the new CSV importer (Tony) who confirmed he is already in touch with you to work on this bug, so to avoid any confusion, and in order to resolve this issue as efficiently as possible, I’ll let you work on this together and close this threa…

Could you update us on if this has been fixed? Moving the conversation to a private thread doesn’t let us know the outcome. Thanks!

Hi Todd, Great point and here’s a summary to the questions asked above: We have some additional functionality rolling out over the next 7 days that addresses some of the questions asked here: Dependents will be enabled as a mappable field Collaborators will be enabled as a mappable field (and no…

CSV Import for Project Tasks

Asana Community Critical Bugs Closed

Bastien_Siebman 5 October 2019 14:04 3

There has been an update We're rolling out a new CSV Importer

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CSV Import for Project Tasks

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