Hey Asana Community! I’ve only recently started running into this issue (maybe within the last two months).
Any Loom video that is embedded into the description field OR a comment on an Asana task starts auto-playing immediately when you open the task. If the Loom video finishes, it displays an “end screen” with a pre-populated “thank you” comment. The annoying thing is that when this happens, your cursor automatically jumps into that field from wherever else you were typing in Asana. This is especially annoying if there is any Loom video anywhere in a longer conversation where multiple comments are being made on a task, because EVERY time you go back to the task to make another comment, if the Loom video finishes, you’re going to have the cursor jumping there. This will happen repeatedly in the same thread if there are multiple Loom videos in the thread. Every time another one of them finishes, the cursor jumps into that “comment” field on the end screen of the video.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? The only thing I’ve been able to think of to do is to immediately pause any and all Loom videos that might be on an Asana task, but this is getting really old. I’d love to figure out how to disable auto-play to begin with. I searched the forum but didn’t find anything. Thank you so much!
I’m familiar with what Loom is but, I’ve never used their products. I was going through some of their documentation in the following link regarding embedded videos
In the documentation it mentions
- For autoplay: Add ?autoplay=1 or autoplay=true to then end of the Loom URL link.
Try removing the ?autoplay=1 or autoplay=true whichever shows in your embedded videos or even maybe try putting the word false or 0 in its place to see if those parameters work.
Here’s a link to more documentation regarding Loom embedded videos
I’m curious to how are you embedding these Loom videos within Asana. I’m intrigued 
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This is an issue that has been reported several times, and to my knowledge, we’re working on resolving it.
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Thank you both for the response!
Thank you for the tip! I grab the “share” link from Loom and paste it into Asana and it embeds itself. The links I am using don’t include any kind of “autoplay” parameter. They are formatted with https://www.loom.com/share/ at the beginning, followed by a 32-character string that uniquely identifies each video. However, I could definitely try adding ?autoplay=0 or ?autoplay=false to see if that helps!
Thank you! I just noticed today that videos aren’t auto-playing in my Asana tasks anymore (and I haven’t done anything different or had a chance yet to try the above-mentioned tactic to see if I could disable autoplay). So maybe this has already been fixed? If so, massive thanks!
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