# Ability to duplicate a Custom Field

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/ability-to-duplicate-a-custom-field/1117792>\
**Category:** Product Ideas\
**Tags:** custom-fields, rules, agentic-work-management\
**Created:** [12 January 2026 14:08 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/ability-to-duplicate-a-custom-field/1117792 "2026-01-12T14:08:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Idris1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Idris1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Idris1)\
**Post date:** [12 January 2026 14:08 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/ability-to-duplicate-a-custom-field/1117792/1 "2026-01-12T14:08:19Z")

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For custom fields, can you please enable them to be duplicated because sometimes you need a very slight variation in, for example, the order of items in a custom field for a project, and you can’t alter that because it will alter it for all other projects that contain that custom field.

Same for rules, instead of having to build one and the same rule for each project, can’t they be in some library where I can just pick and add them and customize them as needed? Otherwise it’s just grueling work having to work with rules of 20+ projects individually….

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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [12 January 2026 19:24 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/ability-to-duplicate-a-custom-field/1117792/2 "2026-01-12T19:24:38Z")

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Hi @Idris1 and welcome to the forum!

A couple of things:

Regarding duplicating a rule, here’s an existing topic for that request that you can vote for:

> [@Duplicate a rule while building project](https://forum.asana.com/t/duplicate-a-rule-while-building-project/404813):
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> I am creating a project from scratch and I am having rules that when tasks move to certain sections, one custom field value changes. I would like the ability to duplicate the rule as I am b building it. Here is an image on the rule I created as an example. It would be good to click on the 3 dots and get duplicate options and then change the value of the trigger / action with couple of clicks. Where the 3 dots are on the top right corner, add an option ‘du…

The good news here is that it’s marked as “In Development” meaning that Asana is actively working on it!

So I renamed your post here to focus on the “duplicate a custom field” part of your request; hope that’s OK. Be sure to vote for it!

Also note this workaround:

> [@Duplicate a custom field?](https://forum.asana.com/t/duplicate-a-custom-field/306369/6):
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> I full agree with @Richard_Sather that the [custom field library](https://help.asana.com/hc/en-us/articles/14110099577883-Custom-fields#gl-reusable) should (almost) always be the solution. But for very rare use-cases where duplicating a Custom Field is needed, I think I’ve found a workaround. There is one case where this seems to be possible to duplicate a field: when this field is locked by one user, then, another user gets a button to copy the field and its options! play_button See screenshots Hope that helps wink