Asana

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What is Asana?

Asana is where a lot of teams coordinate work, projects, tasks, subtasks, sections, and the comments and stories that track how things move. Keeping it current is a steady stream of small actions: creating tasks, breaking them into subtasks, moving them between sections, tagging, commenting, spinning up projects from templates. This connection lets Fabric's assistant handle that for you, in plain language.

What Fabric's assistant can do with Asana

Once your Asana is connected, Fabric's AI assistant can act on your workspace from plain-language requests.

Find tasks and projects. Get tasks, find all tasks in a project, find a task by ID, in a workspace, or in a project, find projects and sections, find task comments and attachments, and find users, so you can locate work without scanning boards and lists.

Manage tasks. Create tasks and subtasks, create from a template, duplicate a task, add a task to a section, attach files, add and remove tags, create comments and stories, and update tasks, the everyday work of keeping things moving.

Set up projects. Create projects and sections, and create projects from templates, so standing up new work stays consistent without building it by hand.

You describe what you want and the assistant maps it to the right Asana action or trigger.

You stay in control

The assistant acts only when you ask. For anything consequential, updating a task in a way that overwrites, moving it, removing a tag, it confirms with you before going ahead where the change matters, unless you've told it not to for a particular task. Finding and reading never change anything in your workspace.

When something should happen regularly, you can set up a Fabric AI job that runs on a schedule, creating follow-up tasks when one completes, spinning up a project from a template on a cadence, tagging and sorting new tasks, so the routine coordination runs itself while you keep approval over the rest.

Search your Asana from Fabric

Alongside the assistant, connecting Asana adds keyword search over your workspace from Fabric's main search, so a task or project is findable by matching text in the same place you search the rest of your library, rather than searching Asana separately.

How people use it

Project managers keep projects moving by asking the assistant to create, update, and organise tasks, rather than doing each one by hand. It fits how Fabric works for product managers.

Teams have task activity, a completion, a move, a new comment, trigger follow-on actions, so the board helps move work along rather than just recording it.

Anyone coordinating work in Asana can spin up projects and tasks from templates by asking, and pull the tasks they need by describing them.

People with recurring project chores set up a scheduled AI job to handle the setup and upkeep, while keeping approval over changes to existing work.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Asana connection do?

It lets Fabric's AI assistant manage your Asana, taking actions like creating and updating tasks and subtasks, organising sections and tags, and creating projects from templates. It also adds keyword search over your workspace in Fabric.

What can the assistant do in Asana?

It can get and find tasks, projects, sections, comments, and users, create tasks, subtasks, and sections, create tasks and projects from templates, duplicate tasks, attach files, add and remove tags, create comments and stories, and update tasks. You ask in plain language rather than choosing from a fixed list.

Does the assistant change my workspace on its own?

No. It acts only when you ask, and for consequential changes it confirms with you first, unless you've deliberately told it not to for a specific task. Finding and reading change nothing.

Can I create projects and tasks from templates?

Yes. The assistant can create projects and tasks from your Asana templates, so standing up recurring work stays consistent without setting it up by hand each time.

Can I automate task coordination?

Yes. A Fabric AI job can run on a schedule, for example creating follow-up tasks on completion or tagging new ones, while you keep approval over changes to existing work.

Can I search my Asana from Fabric?

Yes, by keyword, from Fabric's main search, so a task or project is findable by matching text alongside the rest of your library.

How is this different from the Trello and Linear connections?

All three manage tasks and projects. Trello is visual kanban built around boards, lists, and cards; Linear is issue tracking for software and product teams; Asana is general team task and project management, with sections, subtasks, templates, and stories. Choose the one your team plans in.

Is my Asana data secure?

Everything in Fabric is encrypted in transit and at rest. The connection acts on your workspace with your authorisation, and you control what it does. The details are in the privacy and security guide and Fabric's privacy commitment.

Does this work through MCP or the API?

Fabric also exposes your library and connected tools to external AI through its MCP server and API; this connection is the built-in way to have Fabric's own assistant work with your Asana.

Does Fabric work with other tools alongside Asana?

Yes. Asana is one of many connections. You can also connect Notion, Google Drive, and Gmail, and automate across many apps with Zapier.