Google Form + Zapier + project overview in Asana

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @George32 and welcome to the forum,

It depends what part of the project overview you’re referring to.

You can populate the initial “Project description” using this Asana API element:

https://developers.asana.com/reference/project-briefs

You can populate project-level custom fields using the custom fields API element:

Custom fields

In both cases, I’m almost positive Zapier doesn’t provide built-in support for those elements so you’d need to use the “Webhooks by Zapier” feature which lets you do any standard web API call from Zapier to another app:

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