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Outlook / Asana

  • 7 September 2020
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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?

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 

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

@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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