Bring stale work back into view
Have Notis check for records with a reported stale state and add a reminder to the associated Asana task.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create task comment
Adds a new text comment (story) to an existing asana task, appearing in its activity feed.
Why this helps
Follow-up can slip when a record has not changed but nobody is prompted to check its task.
- Bring aging records back to the team's attention
- Keep reminders alongside the tracked work
- Reduce manual status checking
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Backendless and Asana once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis from any channel.
- 3Describe what Backendless data indicates staleness and what reminder to add to the related task.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real stale record that identifies its Asana task.
Questions about this workflow
How is staleness determined?
Use a timestamp or stale indicator available in Backendless data. If a baseline or policy is not in that data, include it in your instruction.
Can this update a task without its gid?
The task comment action needs the related task to be identified, so provide its gid or a reliable lookup path.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Backendless to Asana. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Backendless triggers
Asana actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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