How to automatically send dashboards to Asana
DashThis can add any dashboard to an Asana project on a recurring schedule by sending your automated email report to the project's own email address.
How does sending a dashboard to Asana work?
Two features do the work here, one on each side:
- DashThis side: you can schedule any dashboard to go out as an automated email report, as often as you like.
- Asana side: every Asana project has its own email address, and any message sent to it becomes a task in that project, attachments included.
Point the DashThis report at that Asana address and each dashboard shows up as a task in your project, with no manual steps.
How do you get your Asana inbound email address?
Open the project you want your dashboards to land in and copy its unique email address (it looks like something@mail.asana.com). Asana explains exactly where to find it in their guide, How to email tasks to Asana.
Following their guide keeps this article accurate even if Asana changes where the address lives.
How do you schedule the dashboard email in DashThis?
- Open the dashboard.
- Click the sharing icon to the right of the dashboard period.
- Select “Share by email + automation”.
- Paste the address in the To field.
- Set the Frequency.
- Add an optional note.
- Click Send.
From now on, DashThis posts the dashboard to your Asana project on the schedule you picked. 🎉
How do you edit or stop the automation?
- Open the Email Sharing section.
- Click the pencil to change the recipients, frequency, or note, or to stop the automation.
- Save your changes.
Good to know
- Sender address: your reports arrive from notifications@dashthis.com. You can send them from your own domain instead with a custom domain.
- Multiple destinations: add more than one address in the same To field to send the dashboard to several places at once.
- Task creation is Asana’s feature: turning the emailed report into a task is controlled by Asana, so any limits or formatting come from their side.
Need help with sending dashboards to Asana?
Contact our Support Team here 💪🏼
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