# Automating custom fields across a project **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the Community\ **Created:** [24 June 2022 16:24 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automating-custom-fields-across-a-project/174615 "2022-06-24T16:24:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carolee\_McCall\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/carolee_mccall_smith/32/69908_2.png) [@Carolee\_McCall\_Smith](https://forum.asana.com/u/Carolee_McCall_Smith)\ **Post date:** [24 June 2022 16:24 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automating-custom-fields-across-a-project/174615/1 "2022-06-24T16:24:32Z")
Hi there, hoping someone can help me with an automation question. We’re a construction company and use Asana to help us keep our jobs in order. I create a project for each job and then have multiple other projects that link to specific tasks to see a unified project for those tasks (e.g. the task for the closing date on each project links to a project organizing all closings). My question is this: is there a way using a custom field on the job project to automatically enter the due date from another task. Using the above example, could I set something up so that the due date from the task “sign contract” fills in that date on the custom field on the rest of the project so that when I look in a linked project - in this case Closings, I can see the date that the client signed their contracts? I hope that makes sense. I know I can enter the information manually but I’m looking for a way to automate it. Thanks for any advice. ---
**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2022 06:39 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automating-custom-fields-across-a-project/174615/2 "2022-06-25T06:39:18Z")
Hi, At the moment there is nothing that would natively put a due date into a custom field. You would have to look at automation tools, or custom code. I can help with custom code, maybe @Phil_Seeman can help with Flowsana… ---
**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:** [25 June 2022 12:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automating-custom-fields-across-a-project/174615/3 "2022-06-25T12:55:52Z")
Alas Flowsana won’t help here - it can populate data from a parent task to a subtask, but not from one task to another unrelated task which is needed here. I think you’d need some custom code written to solve this one. ---
**Author:** ![Carolee\_McCall\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/carolee_mccall_smith/32/69908_2.png) [@Carolee\_McCall\_Smith](https://forum.asana.com/u/Carolee_McCall_Smith)\ **Post date:** [27 June 2022 16:53 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automating-custom-fields-across-a-project/174615/4 "2022-06-27T16:53:20Z")
I kinda thought that was going to be the answer. Thanks for the help guys. Also, @Phil_Seeman, we use Flowsana and love how it helps us manage our jobs. Appreciate all your work on it. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Smith1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Sean\_Smith1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Sean_Smith1)\ **Post date:** [7 July 2022 00:28 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automating-custom-fields-across-a-project/174615/5 "2022-07-07T00:28:08Z")
Yes not having custom fields replicate across projects is a bummer. ☹