Asana API - Setting the commenting user and html tags

Question

I'm creating tasks in Asana via the api and pulling comments from elsewhere into Asana 'stories'. This all works well however the api doesn't seem to allow a user id to be passed for the comment - so it appears that only I have made comments and am answering myself!

I am wondering if there is a hidden bit of the api to set the commenting user id?

Also the body of the comment displays html tags such as

<li> <ol> <br>

as plain text. Is there a way to fix this also?

thanks!

Answer 1

The story should have a field called created_by which is a struct that contains the user id and user name. Is this always you?

If you're using the API to add a comment, then the creating user will always be you. There API provides no way to impersonate another user. Unless you can get their API credentials, this is a no go.

As for stripping the text - sadly, no. There is no way to prevent this.