Asana Imports & the Hero Mission

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By using the ability to import tasks into Asana, we can save time setting up tasks, especially ones that repeat.

Two real life examples of this are Shoe Spa and the Hero Mission.

Shoe Spa has a weekly campaign that is the same set of tasks each week. There are dependencies and rules set on these tasks. By creating a spreadsheet, we can quickly import all these tasks at once instead or individually writing each. We can automatically set dependencies, due dates, etc that are unique to that week’s tasks by using Excel formulas.

We applied this same idea to the Hero Mission content strategy. With an Excel document that also serves as a planning workbook to produce a layout of your mission strategy, you can add sheets that use formulas to compile all that planning into a format importable to Asana for executing the strategy.