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Available on Asana Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers, as well as legacy tiers Premium, Business, and Legacy Enterprise. Certain features within forms, such as branching, header customization, multiple forms per project, and confirmation message customization are only available to Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers, as well as legacy tiers Business and Legacy Enterprise.

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How to create a form

Forms are part of Asana projects. When someone fills out your form, the form submission will show up as a new task in the project the form lives in.

 
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To create a form:
  1. Access a project and navigate to the Customize menu
  2. Navigate to Add and click Forms. From here, you can customize the content of your form.
  3. Click Publish

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From the forms tab, you can create, edit and share forms. Your form will take on the same name as the project it's connected to, but you can change the name of your form and add a description to give directions or information to form submitters.

Forms also come with two default questions, name and email, to ensure you get the contact information of the requesters. You can choose to delete these questions when creating your form.

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Deleting the email question means that submitters won’t receive the email confirmation associated with their submission.

Adding headings to your forms

Add headings to your forms to organize your questions into sections.

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To add a heading:
  1. Click the Form content tab
  2. Scroll down to the Content section and click Heading
  3. Drag and drop your heading to where you want it to place it

You can also hover over your form and click + Add a heading.

Forms widget on the Home page

You can access forms directly from the Home page with the Forms widget.

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  1. The widget displays your recent forms and favorite forms, and you can create a new form directly from the widget via the + Add new button.
  2. Add widgets to your Home page by clicking the Customize button in the top-right corner.

Add form submitter as collaborator

Keep a form submitter in your organization in the loop by automatically adding them as a collaborator on the task created by their form submission. Toggle the setting on or off from the settings tab.

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Forms branching

Available on Asana Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers, as well as legacy tiers Business and Legacy Enterprise.

Forms branching enables you to create follow-up questions associated with particular responses to single-select or multi-select questions.

From here, hover over and click the Add a branch icon.
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Note

You can have up to five levels of branches within branches.

Form settings

From the Settings tab, you can:

  1. Select a section for tasks
  2. Select a field for the task title
  3. Designate a default assignee for each form submission
  4. Copy all answers to the task description
  5. Select who can access the form
  6. Add a custom confirmation message
  7. Include a button so that submitters can easily complete another submission

The ability to add a default assignee and a custom confirmation message is available on Asana Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers, as well as legacy tiers Business and Legacy Enterprise.

Add attachments to a form

Add an attachment question to your form, so submitters can attach creative briefs, images, documents, PDFs and more. Any attachment added to a form will be attached to the task that is created in your project when a form is submitted.

To add an attachment, click on the Attachment icon under your questions list.

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Once you've added your question, you can:

  1. Change or edit the question name and add a question description
  2. Allow multiple attachments to be added
  3. Toggle on or off the Required field

Preview a form

As you build your form, you can preview it at any time to see how it will appear to form submitters by clicking View form.

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Forms as a template

Asana-created project templates include forms.

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How to create a form template:

  1. From Choose a project template click on Creative Requests
  2. Click on the Use template button when you navigate to form template

From project templates you will be redirected to a Creative Requests form which will capture all your team's creative requests and organize it for you.

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When you select Use Template, you can then rename the template and get started with your new project in form template.

You can specify the section in which the form will appear in the form setting for templates.

Access forms from project list view

Forms can be easily managed and submitted through the project’s list view by using the form icon.

How to access and use forms in project list view

  • Finding the form icon: You can locate the form icon in the project list view, next to the project name or tasks. This icon allows you to access and manage forms directly from within the project.

  • Editing forms: Project editors and admins can click on the form icon to edit the form and its settings. This includes adding or changing form questions and mapping form submissions to specific sections.

  • Submitting forms: Project commenters and viewers can use the form icon to submit tasks via the form. They do not need edit access to use this feature.

Form task routing and section mapping

When you create or edit a form, you can decide where the submitted tasks will land by mapping the form submissions to a specific section of your project. 

  • Form section mapping vs. rules: If you have a rule in place that automatically moves form submissions to a specific section, this rule will not be overridden by the form mapping setting.

  • Default section behavior: If you do not explicitly map a form to a section, tasks submitted via the form will automatically go to the "first section in the project." In most cases, this is the default section, commonly seen in board or gantt views.

  • Removing the default section: If you want to remove the default section from your list view, simply map the form submissions to a specific section. Once mapped, the default section will disappear from the list view, helping keep your project organized.

Note

If a user deletes the section the form is mapped to, the form will default back to the first section of the project

Multiple forms per project

Available on Asana Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers, as well as legacy tiers Business and Legacy Enterprise.

With every project having a different purpose and functionality, it’s so important to consolidate different types of input and information so that projects are used effectively. You can create multiple forms per project to support different types of work requests within any given project. Having the option to create multiple forms can help to streamline workflows and minimize the ‘work-about-work’ that can often add to the workload of the user.

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Duplicating a form

Duplicating forms can help you save time when iterating your intake process.

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To duplicate a form, click the three dot icon in the upper right corner and select Duplicate form.

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From here, you can select a project for this form to be duplicated to and click Duplicate.

 
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From the Customize menu, you can view all of your forms.

Note

You can have a maximum of 20 forms in a project.

When duplicating a project, you also have the option to duplicate your form. Just select the Form check box when duplicating the desired project.

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Forms automatically duplicate via Asana-created templates, custom templates, and the API.

Duplicating a question in a form

To duplicate a question, click on the + icon. You can then edit the duplicate question and its branches.

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Reporting abuse in a form

To report abuse in a form, click on Report abuse. Asana's security team will be notified to review and act on the incident in question.

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