Tool

Update goal

Asana Update Goal is a versatile AI tool designed to manage and adjust your project goals effectively within Asana. It enables updating key goal properties such as name, owner, deadlines, progress metrics, and status to ensure your objectives remain aligned and on track.

Asana

Features

  • Allows partial updates to goal properties, changing only specified fields without overwriting others.
  • Supports updating a wide range of fields including goal name, owner (user or team), start and due dates, and status.
  • Enables setting and modifying goal statuses such as on track (green), at risk (yellow), off track (red), and closed statuses like achieved or missed.
  • Facilitates reassignment of goals between owners or teams to optimize responsibility and workload distribution.
  • Returns updated goal data for seamless integration and real-time tracking within your project management workflow.

Benefits

  • Improves goal management by allowing timely adjustments to key properties, keeping projects aligned with changing priorities.
  • Enhances team collaboration by enabling easy reassignment and clear visibility of goal responsibilities.
  • Supports proactive risk management by updating goal status to reflect current progress and issues.
  • Saves time with partial updates, eliminating the need to resend entire goal data when making small changes.
  • Integrates smoothly with Asana, providing real-time updates that keep all stakeholders informed and engaged.

Description

Update goal properties like name, owner, dates, metrics, or status. Use for adjusting timelines, progress, or reassigning ownership. Returns updated goal data. Partial updates supported - only specified fields will change.

Parameters

14 parameters

NameTypeDescription
goal_gidrequiredstring

Globally unique identifier for the goal.

namestring

The name of the goal.

ownerstring

The owner of the goal. Can be a user or team GID.

due_onstring

The due date for the goal in YYYY-MM-DD format.

start_onstring

The start date for the goal in YYYY-MM-DD format.

statusenum

The current status of this goal. When the goal is open, its status can be green, yellow, and red to reflect "On Track", "At Risk", and "Off Track", respectively. When the goal is closed, the value can be missed, achieved, partial, or dropped. Note you can only write to this property if metric is set

html_notesstring

HTML-formatted notes for the goal.

notesstring

Free-form textual information associated with the goal.

is_workspace_levelboolean

Whether the goal is a workspace-level goal.

likedboolean

Whether the goal is liked.

teamstring

The team associated with the goal.

workspacestring

Globally unique identifier for the workspace.

time_periodstring

The ID of the time period.

opt_fieldsstring

Comma-separated list of optional fields to include in the response.

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