Tag Created with API doesn't show up in tasks

[Sina_Lahsaee]

Hello,

I used the create tag API call to create a tag successfully within my workspace. I’ve queried the tag created with a GET and the API retrieves it. However, I do not see the newly created tag in ASANA gui in order to associate it with a new task.

Could anyone guide me as to where the issue might be?

note: I’ve checked my workspace and it is correct.

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Sina_Lahsaee and welcome to the forum!

Yes, unfortunately that’s just a function of the way the Asana UI works:

@Matt_Bramlage

One other thing worth noting is that you won’t see the tag in the UI until you tag a task with it, e.g. with addTag in the API using the ID of the newly created tag. This is for a number of reasons that are fairly internal to how tags are implemented, but it is something that causes some confusion.

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Cannot Create Tag with API

When I try to create a Tag using API, I get successful response. However, the Tag is not visible on UI. Even if i perform Get by ID immediately, I get 404 { “errors”: [ { “message”: “tag: Not a recognized ID: 321517827073100”, “help”: “For more information on API status codes and how to handle them, read the docs on errors: Build an app with Asana” } ] }

[Sina_Lahsaee]

Thank you for this. I’ve been using python to create tasks and add the tasks to them. I guess my question would be if there’s a way around it. Since in my test run the tag is not being recognized even then.

[Phil_Seeman]

There’s no way around it other than using addTag to put it on one task; then it will show in the UI.

@Sina_Lahsaee

in my test run the tag is not being recognized even then.

Can you provide some more detail as to what you mean here?

[Sina_Lahsaee]

Basically what I mean is that, although I successfully added a tag to my workspace, I cannot see it here. Is this intended?

[Phil_Seeman]

After you added it with createTag, did you then programmatically add it to at least one task using addTag?

[Sina_Lahsaee]

yes sir, I used the asana.tags.find_by_workspace to retrieve all tags associated with a workplace.
Although Postman tells me my tag is inside that specified workspace, my task creation fails because it can’t find it using asana.tags.find_by_workspace. Could this be because it takes time to synchronize?

[Phil_Seeman]

No, there’s no synchronization lag in the Asana API.

I’m not familiar with the Python SDK so I’m not sure the reason for using find_by_workspace but you may be seeing another oddity of tags: an empty tag - one not associated with a task - will not be surfaced in the API:

@Jeff_Schneider

We hide empty tags in the API as though they’re trashed.

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Newly created tag doesn't stick around

So, I’m trying to programmatically create tasks and tag them. The tags come from an external resource so I need to create them programmatically as well. When I call the tags.create_in_workspace function, I get a response that looks like it was successful, with an ID and everything. When I try to use that ID to retrieve a tag or to tag a task, things don’t work. The tag doesn’t show up using any of the find operations, doesn’t show up in the UI, and I seem unable to tag a task with it. pls halp

You’ll need to:

1. Create the tag in the API and that should return its gid.
2. Use that returned gid to attach the tag to a task.

At that point the new tag should be fully visible in both the UI and the API.

[Connor_Herring]

I’m having a similar issue. What’s the point of create_in_workspace if you can’t later assign the newly created tags to a task, via the API?

[Phil_Seeman]

@Connor_Herring

What’s the point of create_in_workspace if you can’t later assign the newly created tags to a task, via the API?

You can later assign it to a task via the API. That’s the

2. Use that returned gid to attach the tag to a task.

part of my reply above.