Asana

The Lyftron Provider for Asana offers the most natural way to access Asana data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing Asana data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Asana data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to Asana.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for Asana, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your Asana connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click Asana for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish Asana connection with Lyftron.

"InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=YourClientId;OAuthClientSecret=YourClientSecret;CallbackURL='http://localhost:33333'"

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthClientId	Your Asana OAuthClientId	Required
OAuthClientSecret	Your Asana OAuthClientSecret	Required
CallbackURL	http://localhost:33333	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Asana connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model 

This section shows the available API objects and provides more information on executing SQL to Asana APIs.

Key Features

• The provider models Asana entities as relational views, allowing you to write SQL to query Asana data.
• Stored procedures allow you to execute operations to Asana, including retrieving the access token and keeping it refreshed in OAuth 2.0.
• Live connectivity to these objects means any changes to your Asana account are immediately reflected when using the provider.
• IncludeCustomFields connection property allows you to retrieve custom fields for Tasks view. Set this property to True, to enable this feature.

Views are composed of columns and pseudo columns. Views are similar to tables in the way that data is represented; however, views do not support updates. Entities that are represented as views are typically read-only entities. Often, a stored procedure is available to update the data if such functionality is applicable to the data source.

Queries can be executed against a view as if it were a normal table, and the data that comes back is similar in that regard.

Name	Type	Description
Attachments	Views	To view the attachments in the tasks
Events	Views	To view the events in projects and tasks
ProjectMemberships	Views	To view the memberships in the Project
Projects	Views	To view the Projects
ProjectStatuses	Views	A project status is an update on the progress of a particular project, and is sent out to all project followers when created.
Sections	Views	A section is a subdivision of a project that groups tasks together.
Stories	Views	A story represents an activity associated with an object in the Asana system. Stories are generated by the system whenever users take actions such as creating or assigning tasks, or moving tasks between projects.
SubTasks	Views	To view the subtasks
Tags	Views	A tag is a label that can be attached to any task in Asana. It exists in a single workspace.
Tasks	Views	To view the tasks
TaskStatuses	Views	Get task count of a project
TeamMembership	Views	To represents a users connection to a team.
Teams	Views	A team is used to group related projects and people together within an organization. Each project in an organization is associated with a team.
Users	Views	To view the users details
UserTaskList	Views	Generated schema file.
WorkspaceMembership	Views	To determines if user is a member of a workspace.
Workspaces	Views	A workspace is the highest-level organizational unit in Asana. All projects and tasks have an associated workspace.