Ability to duplicate a Custom Field

[Phil_Seeman]

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

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. [Screenshot 2023-04-20 at 12.45.20] 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?

I full agree with @Richard_Sather that the custom field library 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! See screenshots Hope that helps