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How to get tasks from an Asana board column

Getting all tasks from a particular Asana board view column is a popular request from users. In this article we'll walk you through

Asana board tasks acros multiple columns

  1. Please follow this link to go to app.adenin.com and log in with your Microsoft account: https://app.adenin.com/app/assistant/grid-board?picker=true&connector=asana
  2. Then, for your data source select 'Get tasks from a section'

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  1. Then we need our global identifier for each section (i.e. each column on the Asana board)

Asana global identifier for a section

  1. This is the only difficult part as we need to obtain and note our section ID from the Asana API explorer. Please go to https://developers-legacy.asana.com/explorer and log in there with your Asana account. Select 'Sections' then 'GET /projects/:project_gid/sections'.

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  1. Further down paste your unique project ID by noting it from the URL of your Asana board as shown

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  1. By clicking Submit you will get a list of your sections which each represent a column in Asana. Copy one of the values across to step 3, click Continue, and your Card should appear on your dashboard.

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  1. And voila, now it's just a question of repeating this for each column you wish to recreate as a card