Automator 6.9: Asana, GitHub, & Remote Work Automations You’ll Love

Make remote work as seamless as sitting in an office. Automator’s 6.9 release includes new WordPress integrations for Asana and GitHub, along with a long list of event and ecommerce expansions.

We’re thrilled to announce Uncanny Automator 6.9 is here! And it’s packed with powerful new integrations and features designed to make remote work as seamless as can be.

From managing your team and projects with Asana to simplifying your development workflows with GitHub, this is the update that you’re looking for.

In addition to these new integrations, the 6.9 release comes with significant expansions to existing integrations such as Woo Bookings, Easy Digital Downloads, and Google Calendar.

Scheduling meetings across time zones, creating detailed booking reports, and more just got easier!

If your team works remotely or in a hybrid environment, you’ll want to dig into this release.

Let’s talk about what’s new!

New Integration: Asana

Need some help tracking and managing your projects and coordinating work with your remote team members?

Automator’s 6.9 release brings the efficiency of automation to the convenience of Asana’s project management features. The result? A work-from-home solution that will have your productivity leaping out of its sweatpants.

New Asana Triggers:

• A comment is added to a task in a specific project (Pro)
• A custom field of a task is set to a specific value (Pro)
• An approval task is set to a status (Pro)
• A task is created in a specific project (Pro)
• A task is updated in a specific project (Pro)

Update your team on Slack, Microsoft Teams or another messaging platform to keep them up-to-speed in real time. Log changes and progress to shared Google Sheet worksheets or execute actions on your WordPress site.

New Asana Actions:

• Add a comment to a task in a specific project
• Add a tag to a task in a specific project
• Create a task in a specific project
• Get details from a task
• Remove a tag from a task in a specific project
• Update a specific task in a specific project
• A comment is added to a task in a specific project (Pro)
• A custom field of a task is set to a specific value (Pro)
• An approval task is set to a status (Pro)
• A task is created in a specific project (Pro)
• A task is updated in a specific project (Pro)

From automatically creating tasks from support tickets, to scheduling and tracking content updates and beyond, Automator helps your team keep the ball rolling, no matter where they are working.

Create and manage tasks without adding to your daily administrative workflows so you can focus on getting the job done.

New Integration: GitHub

To all the software developers out there, we made a GitHub integration for WordPress so you don’t have to. This integration is a game-changer for teams managing code repositories, tracking issues, and coordinating releases. Keep your developers (or even your customers) on top of the latest features, fixes, and glitches.

Whether you’re developing a plugin of your own or making the next big app to go viral in the app store, Automator is going to help you make it happen.

New GitHub Triggers:

• A pull request is merged in a repository (Pro)
• A pull request is opened in a repository (Pro)
• A push is made to a repository (Pro)
• A release is published in a repository (Pro)
• An event occurs in a repository (Pro)
• An issue is created in a repository (Pro)

New GitHub Actions:

• Add a comment to an issue or pull request in a repository
• Add a label to an issue or pull request in a repository
• Add a release tag to a branch
• Remove a label from an issue or pull request in a repository

Connect WordPress with your GitHub repositories to bridge the gap between your website and your development process. Automatically create issues from form submissions or trigger actions in WordPress when pull requests are merged or releases are published.

You could even integrate your GitHub repository with OpenAI or another AI platform to draft plain text release updates.

New Features: Google Calendar and Woo Bookings

Working remotely is convenient for the whole team… until you have to try and schedule a meeting. Even if you work in the office next to your colleagues, getting everyone’s calendars to align is challenging.

Unless you can just automate the whole process.

Automator has several new tokens for both Google Calendar and Woo Bookings to make coordinating with your team and clients much easier.

Google Calendar: Add an event to a Google Calendar (action tokens):

• Event ID
• Event link
• Event start time
• Event end time
• Calendar ID
• Add to Google Calendar URL
• Add to Google Calendar anchor link
• Add to Apple Calendar URL
• Add to Apple Calendar anchor link
• Add to Outlook URL
• Add to Outlook anchor link
• All calendar platform links

Woo Bookings (trigger tokens):

• Booking product ID
• Booking duration type
• Booking duration
• Booking duration unit
• Booking duration (in minutes)
• Booking timezone
• Booking start date
• Booking start time
• Booking end date
• Booking end time
• Booking product tags
• Booking product categories

The Easy Digital Downloads Upgrade

eCommerce automations remain some of the most requested automations we get. And the 6.9 release delivers in a big way.

We’ve added some new features to our EDD integration to help you segment your customers, reduce transaction costs, and dial up engagement.

New Triggers:

• A user purchases a price option of a download — Segment customers based on their purchase right at checkout and create more detailed sales reports.
• A user cancels their subscription to a price option of a download (Pro) — Trigger targeted winback campaigns that appeal to specific segments of your customer base.
• A user receives a Stripe refund for their subscription to a price option of a download (Pro) — Parting with your customers (and the revenue they brought) is never easy. This makes it just a little smoother and a lot less painful.

New Actions:

• Generate a discount code — Imagine generating custom discount codes for your customers when they submit a form, purchase a download, visit a page, click a button, or whatever else they might do. Now, stop imagining; we just made it a reality!

New Tokens (Universal):

• User orders (loopable type)
• User spent
• User address line 1
• User address line 2
• User city
• User state/province
• User country

With these new universal tokens, you can easily segment users based on their total spend or location to deliver targeted messages at the right time. Or provide sales incentives like discount codes or course access when users match specific criteria, without lifting a finger.

There’s More Where That Came From

Believe it or not, we haven’t covered everything that’s new in Uncanny Automator 6.9. We’ve barely covered the headlines.

There’s a lot more where that came from. New WordPress tokens, Google Calendar time zone updates, drastically lighter logs, and a lot of quality of life improvements across the board.

If you’re working remotely or having difficulty keeping your team coordinated and on task, we made this update just for you.

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For a full list of new features, updates, and changes in the Automator 6.9 release, check out the Automator changelog and the Automator Pro changelog.

Brendan Da Costa

Brendan Da Costa is a WordPress content writer with a Shakespearean-level gift of gab (his words, not ours). He left a successful career in economics to pursue his passion for writing and discovered the wonderful world of WordPress while building his own website to showcase his work. As a self-taught enthusiast who spends more time tinkering with plugins and themes than he would care to admit, Brendan writes equally for WordPress beginners and veteran developers alike. With his unique blend of expertise and creativity, he continues to elevate the digital landscape one WordPress article at a time.

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