My name is Michael, and I’m a Product Marketer focused on Asana’s Workflows and Platform features. I’m very excited to share that Rules in Asana can now connect to other apps. This new feature will help you automatically take actions in those tools without having to leave Asana, making sure that key pieces of information move with your work when they cross multiple tools.
In our first batch of App Rules, you’ll find actions that connect Asana to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Jira. Here are some examples of what you could do with App Rules:
When a task is marked complete, send a message to a Slack channel.
When to use: Automatically notify the translation channel when a video production task has been completed
When a task is moved to a specific section, create a new Jira issue and link it to the Asana task.
Use case example: Automatically create a Jira ticket when a task is moved from “Triage” to “Assigned”
This launch marks the beginning of many more integrations to come. We hope you are excited as we are and encourage you to explore the different combinations you can create with Rules and App Rules.
Please note: we are gradually rolling out this feature to our customers and you should expect to have access no later than the end of January.
Exactly! It only applies for the “task added” trigger - there is a 2-minute delay for the exact reason you mention. For all other triggers, the external app is notified immediately.
(FWIW I’m lobbying to have that time reduced; personally I think 2 minutes is too long and 15 seconds or so would be a better delay.)
Hi @abass, thanks for reaching out! If the Slack channel is private, you’d need to add the Asana bot to the channel manually and then create the rule. You can do this typing /asana link and you’ll see the option to choose and connect your project to the channel. This is currently how Slack permissions work but our team is aware of this and looking for ways to improve it in the future!
Trying to setup a rule for MSFT Teams, I’m getting an error, see image below
I’ve tried a few things but nothing seems to work. I added the App to Teams overall, which connects just find, I’ve created tasks from Teams and they get added in Asana for example.
I’ve added the Asana App to the specific channel within Teams, but still I get this error when trying to create the rule.
Thanks for your report, @Jose_Martinez! If you already linked Asana to the selected channel in Teams and the issue persists, I recommend you to contact our support team so they can help you troubleshoot this issue further: How to contact our Support Team ✉.
As reference, these are the steps to link the teams channel with your Asana project:
