Learn the best use cases for an Asana-Jira integration, what fields are synced between the two tools, and your customization options.
Use Asana and Jira together to improve your team's efficiency. Whether you need more information to get your workflow set up or you're just checking us out, this guide will show what we sync, how to get started, and how to solve common problems.
Before you start, have you made sure you configured Jira for Unito access?
A demo of an Asana-Jira workflow
Which fields are syncable between Asana and Jira?
| Asana | Jira | |
| Task title | ↔ | Issue title |
| Task description | ↔ | Issue description |
| State | ↔ | State |
| Comments | ↔ | Comments |
| Assignees | ↔ | Assignees |
| Tags | ↔ | Labels |
| State | ↔ | Status |
| Due date | ↔ | Due date |
| Sections | ↔ | Status |
| Attachments | → | Description footer |
| Description footer | ← | Attachments |
| Description footer | → | Link to issue |
| Custom fields | ↔ | Custom fields |
| Link to task | → | Description footer |
| Description footer (or custom field) | ← | Priority |
| Custom field | → | Description footer |
| Description footer (or custom field) | ← | Issue type |
| Created by | → | Description footer |
| Description footer | ← | Reporter |
| Description footer (or custom field) | ← | Epic name |
| Description footer (or custom field) | ← | Original estimated duration |
| Start date | ↔ | Custom field |
| Custom field | ↔ | Sprint |
NEW: Unito users can now build workflows to sync Jira sprints and backlogs to sections in Asana!
Want to see your Unito flows without ever leaving Asana? Check out the Flow Preview App for Asana here.
Customization options
Here are all the available options for Asana and Jira:
Filter Asana tasks with rules
Unito will sync all tasks by default, but you can customize your workflow by syncing only some of them. You can use Asana tags or custom fields (Text and Number only) to do this. Learn more about using rules here.
Filter Jira issues with rules
You can filter which type of issues you want to be synced to Asana (complete guide).
One-way syncing
You can choose to sync only from Asana to Jira or Jira from Asana. Here is how it works.
Map your Jira and Asana users
Here is a complete article on how to sync teammates.
Default type for new Jira issues
Unito lets you choose which issue type should be created in Jira each time a new task is synced from Asana.
Sync closed work items
Unito will automatically sync open items automatically. But here is how to also sync closed items prior to the flow creation.
Prefix Asana task title with Jira issue number
Unito doesn't sync the issue number is Asana by default but you can enable that in your flow settings under the Asana tab.
Here is how to do it.