Trying to add Actual Time field to projects but can't find the field gid

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @kchen1 and welcome to the forum,

It’s not a custom field; you want the task.actual_time_minutes property.

Note, though, that unless they added write support and didn’t tell us, it’s currently limited to reading; you can’t write to that field. They’re supposed to be adding write support at some point. (Having said that, if you do try writing to it and it works, please let us know here!)

For more, see:

Native Time Tracking read data

tl;dr: * Time tracking is now available: Actual time available as Task.actual_time_minutes Estimated time available as a number custom field Custom.estimated_time Asana-created custom fields include an asana_created_field identifier Hey folks, It is now possible to read time tracking information for tasks in the API! Additionally, we have added an asana_created_field field to Custom Fields. Schema Actual time: the actually recorded amount of time it took for a task to be completed. a…