Asana - Delete Task

↩ Part of the Asana integration.

Description

Deletes a task (DELETE /tasks/{gid}). Use it to clean up duplicates created by an integration, or to remove work items that a cancellation upstream made irrelevant.

Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
`credentials_id`	credentials	Yes	Asana credential
`task_gid`	text	Yes	`gid` of the task to delete

task_gid accepts dynamic variables.

Credentials

This module requires an Asana credential:

Field	Description
`access_token`	Personal Access Token from app.asana.com
`default_workspace_gid`	Optional fallback workspace

Output

Asana returns an empty body, so the node returns a confirmation object:

{
  "gid": "1209876543210987",
  "deleted": true
}

Along with it, _meta:

{ "moduleVersion": "1.0.0", "success": true, "gid": "1209876543210987", "totalMs": 210 }

Usage Example

Delete a known task

{
  "credentials_id": "asana_ops",
  "task_gid": "1209876543210987"
}

Delete the task from a previous node

{
  "credentials_id": "asana_ops",
  "task_gid": "{{data.gid}}"
}

Notes

Deleted tasks go to Asana’s Deleted items for 30 days before being purged, so an accidental delete can be recovered from the Asana UI within that window.
Subtasks of the deleted task are deleted with it.
A 404 means the task no longer exists — safe to treat as “already gone”, but note the node still returns an error and stops the branch. Guard the node with a condition if a missing task is an acceptable outcome.
Deleting requires write permission on the task; otherwise Asana answers 403. Neither 403 nor 404 is retried.

Asana: Update task — close the task instead of deleting it.
Asana: Get task — check the task exists before deleting.
Asana: List tasks — find the tasks to clean up.