Subscribe to Task creation/update/completion

[joeolsenmm]

Hey everyone! I am a heavy Zapier user and a ToDoist user and I want to manage all my tasks in ToDoist. There is Zapier functionality between the two apps but there is nothing to watch for new tasks/task updates etc.

There is another Zapier type app called Integromat that says they have a trigger off new engagements created so I am assuming there is something in the API that I could watch for regarding new enagements/updates etc. Anyway, I cannot find anywhere in the API where a new engagement or an updated engagement would trigger a webhook call or something like that I could watch.

Does anyone know of anything like that I am missing or is anyone doing the same thing?

Thanks.

JJO

[Derek_Gervais]

Hi @mmjoeolsen,

That's awesome to hear, thanks for posting an update with your solution. I'll mark this as solved with your last post so others with similar questions can easily find it!

[Derek_Gervais]

Hi @mmjoeolsen,

I'm not 100% familiar with Zapier's functionality, but I don't believe it keeps track of a 1:1 relationship between your Todoist tasks and your HubSpot tasks. I made a test Zapier account to try it out, and it didn't seem possible. I'd recommend giving feedback to Zapier; when their support team gets feedback/ideas, they direct them to the app's authors. You could also try posting feedback in the HubSpot Community.

[joeolsenmm · Accepted solution]

Thanks @Derek_Gervais! I actually got it to work. I append the HS task ID to the ToDoist task name and when I mark complete in ToDoist I just use the HSID and patch it. Works well.

[Derek_Gervais]

Hi @mmjoeolsen,

There isn't currently any webhook functionality related to tasks or other engagements. It's possible that the integration you're referring to is polling the recent engagements endpoint?

developers.hubspot.com

Get recent engagements

GET /docs/methods/engagements/get-recent-engagements - get the most recently updated (and created) engagements.

[joeolsenmm]

Thanks Derek! I suppose I could make that work but I would have to build some extra logic around it. I was hoping there was just a trigger I could attach to whenever a new task was created or changed/completed. I suppose I'll have to look into that though is that's the only option. I feel like this would be a pretty easy thing for the team to implement and it would be extremely useful to anyone using a third party to-do list tool. Maybe at least consider building it into Zapier if not a full API addition.

[joeolsenmm]

@Derek_Gervais I built a very convoluted zapier integration to make everything work

Now I would like to be able to mark a task as complete in hubspot crm if I comeplete it in todoist. I see an update engagement call but it does not look like I change the completion status. Am I missing something or is there another way?

Thanks for your help man.

[FreezeFolks]

Would you be able to share teh detaisl on hwo you got this to work?