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Asana is a fantastic project management tool, however, it's often helpful to see tasks in a calendar view. This integration makes that easy, automatically creating a new event on Google Calendar whenever a new task is created within your chosen Asana project.

Asana is a leading work management platform that helps teams orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives. With Asana, organizations have a living system of clarity where everyone can see, discuss, and execute their team’s priorities.

Asana

Triggered when a task within a project, or any project within a workspace, is marked as completed. Does not trigger on completed subtasks.

Completed Task

Triggered when a Task is added to a Project.

New Task

Triggers when a new Comment is added to a Task in Asana.

New Comment on a Task

New Project

New Story

New Subtask

Triggers when a Subtask is completed in Asana.

New Completed Subtask

New Tag Created

Triggers when an attachment is added to a task.

New Attachment Added to Task

Triggers when a Task is moved to a section.

Task Moved to Section

Triggered when you add a new task to a project.

New Task in Project

Tag Added to Task

New Team

Triggered when a Task is updated in a Project.

Updated Task

Triggered when a task in a project is updated.

Updated Task in Project

New User

Triggered when you add a new workspace/organization.

New Workspace/Organization

Find Project

Finds an existing section within a workspace project.

Find Section in Project

Finds an existing task within a workspace project(s).

Find Task in Project

Find Task by ID

Finds a task in a workspace. Supports custom fields. Available only to premium Asana users.

Find Task in Workspace

Finds an existing user of your Asana account.

Find User

Find or Create Project

Find or Create Task

Add Task to Section of Project

Attach File

Create Duplicate Task

Creates a new project from a custom template.

Create Project From Template

Create Section

Create Subtask

Create Task

Creates a new task in Asana from a selected template.

Create Task from Template

Create Project

Create Comment/Story

Update Task

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Calendar

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Delete Event

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Create Google Calendar events from new Asana tasks

Some people prefer to use Google Calendar, but others like to have their email, contacts and calendar in Microsoft Outlook. If you're reading this, you probably use both, and need a way to keep them on the same page. Use this Zapier automation to add detailed events in Google Calendar whenever new events are created in Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

Microsoft Outlook

Triggers at a specified time before an event in your calendar starts.

Calendar Event Start

Cancelled Calendar Event

New Attachment

Triggers when a new event is created in your calendar.

New Calendar Event

Triggers when a new contact is added to your account

New Contact

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox.

New Email

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox that matches a search.

New Email Matching Search

New Flagged Email

Triggers when a new new message in folder is created.

New Message in Folder

Updated Calendar Event

Find Calendar Event

Find a Contact

Find Email

Find or Create Contact

Add Attendees to Calendar Event

Create an event in the calendar of your choice.

Create Event

Create Contact

Creates a draft of an email that can then be reviewed and sent out.

Create Draft Email

Create Draft Reply

Creates a new reply to email, probably with input from previous steps.

Reply to Email

Send Email

Update Calendar Event

Update Contact

Add Microsoft Outlook events to Google Calendar

Ever wanted your Zoom meetings on a Google Calendar? This simple automation has you covered! Any new Zoom meeting will automatically be added to a Google Calendar of your choice.

Zoom brings teams together to get more done in a frictionless environment. Zoom's reliable, video-first unified communications platform provides video meetings, voice, webinars, and chat across desktops, phones, mobile devices, and conference systems

Zoom

Triggers when every time a meeting host ends the meeting.

New Meeting Ended

Triggers when a summary is available for a meeting. Note: you must be the meeting host.

New Meeting Summary

Triggers when a new audio transcript has been completed after a meeting or webinar you hosted completes.

New Audio Transcript

Triggers when a new participant joins a webinar or meeting.

New Participant Joined Webinar or Meeting

Triggers when a new Meeting or Webinar is created.

New Meeting

Triggers when a new registrant is added to a meeting.

New Meeting Registrant

Triggers when a new Cloud Recording is completed for a Meeting or Webinar.

New Cloud Recording

Triggers when a new registrant is added to a Webinar.

New Webinar Registrant

Finds a find meeting/webinar based on id or topic name.

Find Meeting/Webinar

Find Recording and Download

Get Meeting Summary

Retrieve the list of participants (as line items) for a given meeting or webinar, up to 3000 participants.

Retrieve Meeting or Webinar Participants

Creates a new Zoom Meeting. (Options not available here will default to user/account Zoom settings.)

Create Meeting

Create Meeting Registrant

Create Webinar Registrant

Deletes all recordings for a specified meeting, with an option to move them to trash or permanently delete them.

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