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Question

How to trigger on all comments (stories) for an Asana project?

  • 27 January 2022
  • 1 reply
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M
Userlevel 1

I want to trigger a zap when any comment (story) is added to any task within a project in Asana.

I have explored 3 ways of doing this, none which seem to be possible:

  1. Use the asana trigger “New Story” → the problem is, this trigger will not allow for triggering on any story on any task in a project. I have to specify a particular task. That won’t work because I don’t know in advance which task in the project will have a comment added.
  2. I thought of “polling” all tasks in a project for new comments, using a timer. I set up a “Schedule” trigger, but could not find an action in asana that lists all tasks for a project. A static list would not work because new tasks come and go on this project.
  3. I thought of triggering based on “updated task in project in asana”, but this won’t work for two reasons: a) it does not trigger when a new comment is added, and b) There is no asana action for “find stories for task”

I also found this other thread about a seemingly similar thing, but couldn’t figure out what they were actually doing there.

I am at a loss how to proceed.

Deeper explanation

I’m trying to sync comments between Asana ↔️ Active Campaign (AC) for a deals pipeline. Active Campaign has triggers for “New Deal Note Added,” so I can get comments from AC to Asana. But I cannot find a way to push new comments from Asana back to AC. 

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

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robschmidt
Userlevel 7
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Hi @MorganG,

Triggering on new comments can be done using Asana’s webhook feature. So everytime a new comment is added, it will send a notification to the Zap that you can configure using “Webhook by Zapier”. However, you need to configure which comments to trigger on in the filter.

Here are some supporting articles: 

  1. https://forum.asana.com/t/webhooks-for-comments-only/93233
  2. https://forum.asana.com/t/listening-webhook-for-new-comments-on-a-project-status-update/101367/4
  3. https://developers.asana.com/docs/webhooks
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