How to get user roles for a project using the Asana API

[Rares_Lungu]

Hello,

I am trying to use the Asana Python API library to get the project roles that appear on the Overview page when accessing a Project. I’m new to the Asana API and I couldn’t find anything related to this in the documentation or in the community forum.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Rares_Lungu and welcome to the forum!

The role field is undocumented in the API docs (cc: @AndrewWong, maybe you can add it?) but you can access it using the opt_fields option; see:

How to get user's role

Hi @Shintaro and welcome to the forum! The reason you don’t find “role” on the User object is that a user’s role is actually defined at the workspace level, and so is workspace-specific (a user can have different roles in different workspaces). It turns out you can retrieve a user’s role in a given workspace using this endpoint: https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/users/1234567?opt_fields=role&workspace=4567890 (Hat tip to @Ross_Grambo for this info!)

Note that it’s a property of a user’s workspace membership, not of a specific project, so you won’t be able to get it via a project-related call.

[Rares_Lungu]

Hello @Phil_Seeman and thank you very much for the prompt reply.

I’ve followed your answered and tested it for my situation but unfortunately, it is not the same thing as what I was looking for.

For my use case, I’d like to get the project roles of all the project members, which are assigned at the project level (and which could technically be different from project to project within a workspace) rather than the roles set at the workspace level (which are unique for each workspace).

Do you know of any method call or endpoint that would return this information?

Thank you!

[Rares_Lungu]

@Rares_Lungu

answered

answer, sorry

[Phil_Seeman]

@Rares_Lungu

For my use case, I’d like to get the project roles of all the project members, which are assigned at the project level (and which could technically be different from project to project within a workspace) rather than the roles set at the workspace level (which are unique for each workspace).

Oh sorry, I missed that.

I’m sure that’s on the project_membership object but I don’t know of any way to get that (I just tried some ideas but came up empty).

@AndrewWong or @Ross_Grambo do you know of any way to get at that undocumented “project role” field via the API?

[Ross_Grambo]

Sorry, project roles aren’t exposed anywhere in the API yet

[Rares_Lungu]

That’s unfortunate but thank you very much for your reply!