[New] Instantiate a task from a template over the API!

[John_Baldo]

Hello!

Today we’re announcing the ability to fetch Task templates and instantiate tasks from a template over the API! Task templates make it easy to standardize tasks in your project and create repeatable workflows.

With these new API endpoints, you’ll be able to create an experience outside of Asana where a user selects from a list of available templates and creates a task using that template!

Here’s what we’ve added:

HTTP method	API endpoint
GET	/task_templates
GET	/task_templates/{task_template_gid}
POST	/task_templates/{task_template_gid}/instantiateTask

Get the full details for each endpoint in our documentation.

Special considerations

Notably, task templates need to be created in the Asana web app before they can be leveraged using these endpoints. We intend to release additional endpoints to create task templates over the API, but we don’t yet have a timeline for that release.

Questions & feedback

Let us know if you have any questions or feedback about this release. We know many of you have been anticipating this, so excited to see what you’ll build!

Thanks,

John
Asana API Team

[FreshyJon]

Wow. Game changer. Can’t wait to start using this. Been waiting a while.

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @John_Baldo,

Great news!

@John_Baldo

We intend to release additional endpoints to create task templates over the API,

In addition to that functionality, I’d also like to request a created_from_template field to be added to the task object, analogous to that existing field on the project object - so that we could tell programmatically if a given task was created from a task template, and which one. Thanks!

[Ambroise_Unly.org]

Great start, now I’m looking for an automation tool that’s compatible with that.

I tried:

• Zapier
• Pipedream
• n8n

None of them handle that feature yet.

[Bastien_Siebman]

@Ambroise_Unly.org with Zapier you can call the Asana API directly, it isn’t hard, I can help if you want in a dedicated thread

[Ambroise_Unly.org]

I dislike Zapier very much, but thank you for proposing your assistance!

Fortunately, I asked Pipedream to add this integration a week ago, and they released it yesterday.
It’s now possible to create a task from a template via Pipedream (no-code, super simple)

[JoshG]

@Ambroise_Unly.org I haven’t heard of Pipedream! I’m curious to hear how it compares to other no-code options for Asana, like Unito.

[Ambroise_Unly.org]

Never heard of Unito before.

Pricing wise, it starts at a much higher price than the others.

And, conceptually speaking, it’s very different.
Unito is about 2-ways synching of data, it’s not about automating processes, just the sync part.

But maybe it does that very well, and is more reliable. I won’t know until I try it!
Specialized tools usually end up being better than their “generic” counterparts.

It supports “only” 53 connectors, that’s very few, compared to what the other 4 provide.
The pain it solves is different (realtime syncing), but can be combined with other automation tools.