Find Project

Searches Asana for projects by name, team, owner, or archived status. Use it to look up a project's GID before acting on it elsewhere in a workflow.

What It Does

Searches your Asana workspace's projects using any combination of a text query, team, owner (by GID or email), and archived status, and returns up to the limit you set.

When To Use It

Use this when a workflow needs to find a project it does not already have the GID for, such as locating "the client's onboarding project" by name before adding a task to it. If you already have a project's GID from a trigger or an earlier step, you do not need this node.

Configuration

Configure the node with these settings:

Field	What it controls
Query	Text to search for in project names or descriptions.
Team	A team GID to filter projects by team.
Owner	A user GID to filter projects by owner.
Owner Email	An email address to filter projects by owner instead.
Archived	Filter by archived status: `true` for archived projects, `false` for active ones.
Limit	The maximum number of projects to return, from 1 to 100. Defaults to `20`.

Outputs

The node passes these values downstream. Check the Outputs tab on the configured node to confirm exact paths.

Variable	Type	Example
`projects`	`array<object>`	`{{nodeId.projects}}`
`projects[].projectId`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.projectId}}`
`projects[].projectName`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.projectName}}`
`projects[].projectUrl`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.projectUrl}}`
`projects[].notes`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.notes}}`
`projects[].teamName`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.teamName}}`
`projects[].ownerName`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.ownerName}}`
`projects[].archived`	`boolean`	`{{nodeId.projects.archived}}`
`projects[].completed`	`boolean`	`{{nodeId.projects.completed}}`
`projects[].dueDate`	`string`	`{{nodeId.projects.dueDate}}`
`projects[].memberCount`	`number`	`{{nodeId.projects.memberCount}}`
`totalCount`	`number`	`{{nodeId.totalCount}}`
`message`	`string`	`{{nodeId.message}}`
`success`	`boolean`	`{{nodeId.success}}`

Example Workflow

A workflow searches for a project by name using Find Project, takes the first result's projectId, and passes it to Create Task so a new task lands in the right project.

Create Task
Add Task to Project
Find User

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