Asana Importer

The whole import process takes between 2 and 15 minutes, depending on the amount of projects you are importing. Go to the awork Importer Hub in the Settings and click on “Start import” with Asana.

Before you start, go to your Asana workspace. Click on your Profile in and click on “Developers” in the menu element.

Click on your avatar in Asana and navigate to settings.

In the pop-up navigate to Apps. Scroll down to “Build new apps” and click on “View developer console”. A new tab is popping up.

Click on “Create new token”. Another pop-up opens.

Type in a name for your new token. It can be generic one like “awork Token”. Afterwards, you need to agree to the Asana API Terms and click on “Create token”.

Another pop-up opens. You can now copy your newly generated API token. Please copy the token to a place where you can find it again.

Insert the access token into the field for it and click on “Continue”.

In the next step, you can select one or several projects which you want to import.

It is also possible to select a project type and a project template for the imported project. This needs to be created in the awork workspace beforehand.

In the next step you can map Custom Fields in Asana and awork. Custom Fields need to be created in awork before you can map them in the importer settings.

☝️ Important: The task status needs to be created in a project template first. Otherwise, it is not imported correctly.

☝️ Important: The assignee of a task needs to exist in Asana and awork with the same email address.

If you do not want to map a column, pick “Do not map”.

You can choose separately whether you want to import Subtasks, Comments or Assignees.

💡 Note: Please keep in mind, that there is only one layer of subtasks in awork.

In the next step you can see a summarization of your imported projects, tasks, files, subtasks and comments. This can take a few seconds.

Afterwards, click on “Start Import”.

Your import progress will start. In the progress bar you can see how much was imported so far and you can see the estimated time of the import.

If your import was successful, you will see a summarization and a confirmation. In case the import failed, you will receive information what went wrong. By clicking on “Return to Home” you can start the importing process from step 1 again.

In your awork workspace, you can now see the imported project.

You can map the following columns from Asana to the following Custom Fields in awork: