Connect External Tools to Asana Task Creation
Your monitoring tool sends an alert. Your form collects feedback. Your script detects an error. Notis turns all of it into Asana tasks automatically.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create task in asana with specific details
Creates a new asana task; requires 'workspace', 'parent', or 'projects' for association, and 'followers', 'projects', 'tags' are set only at creation.
Why this helps
Critical events happen in external tools (monitoring alerts, form submissions, API errors) but creating corresponding Asana tasks requires manual work or expensive custom integrations.
- Integrate any tool that can send webhooks without custom coding
- Ensure critical events in external systems create tasks immediately
- Reduce time from issue detection to task creation
- Single source of truth in Asana for all incoming work
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Asana to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'Create an Asana task when you receive a webhook from [tool name] with this specific structure.'
- 3Notis provides you with a unique webhook URL.
- 4Configure your external tool to send webhooks to that URL (copy-paste the URL into your tool's settings).
- 5Trigger a test event in your external tool and verify the Asana task appears.
Questions about this workflow
Do I need to write code to set up the webhook?
No. Notis handles the technical part. You just tell it what tool is sending data and what should happen. Your external tool needs a webhook option (most modern tools have this).
Can I map specific fields from the webhook into the task?
Yes. Tell Notis: 'Use the alert_severity field as the priority' or 'Put the error_message in the task description.' Plain language mapping, no configuration screens.
What if I receive too many webhook events?
You can add filters: 'Only create tasks if the severity is critical' or 'Skip duplicate alerts within 5 minutes' to avoid task spam.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Asana. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack triggers
Asana actions
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
Add Followers to Task
Tool to add followers to a task in asana. use this tool when you need to add one or more users as followers to a specific task. this will notify them of updates to the task.
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Add Supporting Relationship to Goal
Tool to add a supporting goal relationship to a goal. use when you want to link a project, task, portfolio, or another goal as a supporting resource to a specific goal in asana.
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Add task to section
Adds an existing task to a section, optionally positioning it before or after another task in that section; if no position is specified, the task is added to the end.
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Create Allocation
Creates a new allocation. use when you need to schedule or assign a specific amount of a user's time per week to a task or project within a defined period.
Message Reaction Removed
Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Create a project
Creates a new asana project, requiring either a `workspace` or `team` gid for association, and returns the full project details.
Reaction Added Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
Create a tag in a workspace
Creates a new tag, with properties like name and color defined in the request body, within a specific asana workspace (using `workspace gid`); this tag helps categorize tasks, is confined to the workspace, and is not automatically applied to tasks.
Reaction Removed Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_REMOVED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message.
Create task in asana with specific details
Creates a new asana task; requires 'workspace', 'parent', or 'projects' for association, and 'followers', 'projects', 'tags' are set only at creation.
New Bot Message Received Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_CHANNEL_MESSAGE_RECEIVED` with `is_bot_message=true` instead. Triggered when a new bot message is posted to a Slack channel.
Create Attachment for Task
Tool to upload an attachment to a task. use when you need to attach a file to a specific task in asana.
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