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Outlook / Asana

  • 7 September 2020
  • 3 replies
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R
Userlevel 1

I made a Zap when I receive a mail on Outlook it creates a task on Asana. The issue I have is that Im not able to include the attachment on the Task?

 

Any suggestions?

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Best answer by Mercology 9 September 2020, 16:17

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Mercology
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Rocky,

Do you want the actual file attached to the task to be in Asana or as a reference to the file (link) and store the file elsewhere like google Drive?

For the first, there is an API to attach the file into Asana: https://developers.asana.com/docs/upload-an-attachment

For the second, save the email to a cloud location (like google drive) the add the file reference to the task in asana.

David 

R
Userlevel 1

Thank you for your reply, I was looking to include the Outlook attachment as an attachment on the Asana task, photo, pdf etc.

Mercology
Userlevel 4
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@RockyvN unfortunately, the API for “Upload an attachment” to a task requires you to download the file content first and then upload it as any other attachment. (see https://developers.asana.com/docs/upload-an-attachment).

Further it is not possible to attach files from third party services such as Dropbox, Box & Google Drive via this API.

I recommend the approach of saving the file to a cloud storage (e.g. google drive) and place a reference to the file in the task.

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