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How to Setup the Dropbox Dash Connector for Asana

Overview

Users can connect their Asana account to Dropbox Dash, allowing them to access and search all of their Asana content directly within Dash. This integration requires OAuth authentication to ensure that Dash only retrieves information relevant to the user’s data, giving them full control over what Dash can access. Dash strictly adheres to the OAuth model, meaning it only accesses the data users specifically permit.

Users can only connect to Dash if the integration enabled by their Dash admin.

Team members must authorize Dash to connect.

Integration Features

For Asana, Dash captures the following details:

Items
How Dash uses the items
Projects
Prioritized lists of tasks in Asana, or a board with columns of tasks represented as cards, easily searchable from within Dash. Dash collects information such as the project name, task content, and timestamp to improve search functionality and make it easier to find relevant data.
Tasks
The basic objects around which many operations in Asana are centered. Dash collects information, such as the task name, content, and timestamp, to make searching easy.
User Task Lists
Represents the tasks assigned to a user. Dash collects the task list name to improve search results.
Workspaces
The highest-level organizational unit in Asana. All projects and tasks are associated with a workspace. Dash gathers the workspace name to enhance search capabilities.

API Usage

When connecting Asana, Dash requests the following scopes:

Scope (in english)
Purpose
Access your name and email address
Allows Dash to access your name and email address.
Access your tasks, projects, and workspaces
Allows Dash to access your tasks, projects, and workspaces to surface the most relevant Asana content in search results.
Create and modify tasks, projects, and comments on your behalf
Required by Asana to integrate with Dash.

Crawling Strategy/Performance

After Dash connects to Asana, the content sync begins immediately to ensure you can start searching right away, with prioritizing the most relevant data. The term, “recent/latest items” refers to content a user has interacted with through actions such as preview, upload, create, comment, open, modify/update, share, and shared-with-me. Incremental syncs occurs every 15 minutes.

User requirements

Users must have an active account Asana account to connect Dash.

How to connect Asana to Dropbox Dash

  1. Open Dropbox Dash.
  2. Click Apps near the bottom of the left sidebar.
  1. Scroll down to the section All and find the Asana app.
  2. Click the “+” (plus symbol) on the right to connect the app.
  1. You’ll be prompted to select the account you want to connect and authenticate.
  2. Click Continue.
  3. When presented with list of the permissions required by Dash, click Allow to continue.
  1. If the connection’s successful, you’ll see a message at the bottom of the page, confirming that Asana is connected.
  2. To check your connected apps, open Dropbox Dash.
  3. Click Apps near the bottom of the left sidebar. You should now see Asana under the Added section.
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