More options to get tasks from API

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Howdy Mighty “keeper of keys”

(never piss the developers, they have cookies!)

I am toying with your lovely API, in particular to retrieve a list of the uncompleted tasks assigned to a user. My goal is to create a simple page from which I can print someone’s “Today” or “Upcoming” tasks without many frills.

Now, for me it easy to get to the user’s tasks, with
GET /tasks
which in php returns the compact task record.

My issue is that to limit the tasks to the “todays” and “upcomings” I have to get the full list, then read task by task to limit my list exclusively to the groups I need. I have to do this as the GET /tasks does not allow me to specify the assignee_status nor the compact record contains it.

Is there a way to use assignee_status to shortlist the list of tasks I need to query?

Thanks

Carlo

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@Matt_Bramlage any feedback on this?

Thanks

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Hi there!

You should be able to ask for more than the id and name with the “fields” parameter in the first GET request, something like this curl example:

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $ASANA_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks?assignee=me&limit=100&workspace=$WORKSPACE_ID&opt_fields=name%2Cassignee_status"

With our php client library that ends up looking something like the following example:

<?php
require dirname(__FILE__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';  // This is using Composer for dependencies
use Asana\Client;
$ASANA_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN = getenv('ASANA_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN'); // Get my access token from the shell environment

$client = Asana\Client::accessToken($ASANA_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN);
$taskIterator = $client->tasks->findAll(array('workspace'=>getenv('ASANA_WORKSPACE_ID'), 'assignee'=>'me'),
  array('fields'=>array('name', 'assignee_status'), 'item_limit'=>10)
);

foreach ($taskIterator as $index => $task) {
  var_dump($task);
}
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Fabulous, I did not understand I can as for additional fields.
Works like a charm and reduces the API calls sensibly!

Thank You @Matt_Bramlage

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