Feature Request: Official GitLab Integration equivalent to the GitHub App

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Hi everyone,

In this forum post from 2021: GitHub + Asana: Drive visibility and transparency across teams :dizzy: - News / Product Updates - Asana Forum

Asana introduced a native integration that displays GitHub Pull Requests, statuses, and code changes directly inside Asana tasks.

My company uses GitLab, and we are currently facing a problem: there is no equivalent, official GitLab integration available in the Asana App Directory that offers this functionality.

Currently we Just comment the Changes. What takes quite a lot of Time

I would love to see the addon with GitLab.

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An equivalent of this integration for GitHub would definitely help your team! Upvoting for visibility. Thought I’d also share some workarounds teams in your situation typically use:

  • GitLab webhooks + custom scripts or an automation tool like Zapier to push merge request events into Asana as comments or custom field updates

  • Third-party, two-way sync tools that support GitLab and Asana, like Unito.

    Hope one of these helps in the meantime.

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Hi @Nick54,

Thanks for the upvote and the suggestions!

I actually went down a similar route to your first suggestion and started building a custom program myself, as this is highly critical for our compliance.

To give a bit more context: We use a debt collection software that saves its code directly in database rows. That’s obviously not great for compliance, as we lack a proper audit trail of what was changed and by whom and when and what was befor.

So, I built a custom tool to handle this:

  1. User Selection: A user opens my program and manually selects which code changes they want to back up/save.

  2. GitLab Sync: My tool then grabs that specific data (along with who changed it) and pushes it as a commit to GitLab, so we get a proper diff of the changes.

  3. Asana Message: Once the commit is made, My Tool automatically adds a comment to the relevant task, showing exactly what was changed and who did it.

It works pretty well, but having a native, official GitLab integration would still save us a ton of time! And would make the Tickets better Readable because currently we sometimes have 80 Row Tables in our Tickets, sometimes when the change its Big

Commit Name: Test Commit
User: Louis
Files: 191
Link: GitLabLink
Changed Files:

<FileName, FileType, Informations> (As Table)