# Copying tasks multiple times using Assign Copies **URL:** \ **Category:** Asana In Practice\ **Tags:** tasks\ **Created:** [2 August 2018 10:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650 "2018-08-02T10:55:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bashar\_Khdair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bashar_khdair/32/20867_2.png) [@Bashar\_Khdair](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bashar_Khdair)\ **Post date:** [2 August 2018 10:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/1 "2018-08-02T10:55:24Z")
My team size is 10-15 and I would like to assign a task to each one of them separately, currently I have to copy this task manually for each one of them. Is there anyway I can copy the task multiple times and then I can assign it manually. ---
**Author:** ![RyanE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ryane/32/12382_2.png) [@RyanE](https://forum.asana.com/u/RyanE)\ **Post date:** [2 August 2018 19:19 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/2 "2018-08-02T19:19:22Z")
Hi @Bashar_Khdair, Does this info help you? > **[Ways to save time in Asana | Product guide • Asana Product Guide](https://asana.com/guide/team/advanced/save-time-in-asana#gl-task-copies)** > > Get work done faster with these time-saving features. ---
**Author:** ![Bashar\_Khdair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bashar_khdair/32/20867_2.png) [@Bashar\_Khdair](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bashar_Khdair)\ **Post date:** [3 August 2018 09:02 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/3 "2018-08-03T09:02:48Z")
Thanks Ryan, I need to know how to copy a task multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![RyanE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ryane/32/12382_2.png) [@RyanE](https://forum.asana.com/u/RyanE)\ **Post date:** [9 August 2018 20:41 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/4 "2018-08-09T20:41:29Z")
Hi @Bashar_Khdair, If the assignment to multiple people functionality from the article I linked doesn’t work for you, the only other option is to re-copy the single task and create each new task one at a time. If you’re looking for a paste functionality that’ll just keep making new tasks based on the last copy you made, there’s nothing like that. It’s always possible too that if you talked a bit about your use case, I or others might have other suggestions. Good luck, Ryan ---
**Author:** ![Bashar\_Khdair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bashar_khdair/32/20867_2.png) [@Bashar\_Khdair](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bashar_Khdair)\ **Post date:** [10 August 2018 07:37 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/5 "2018-08-10T07:37:17Z")
Hi @RyanE, Thanks for your reply, well that’s what I am currently doing is copying the task multiple, however this is a time consuming especially doing it for 15+ team members and growing, what if you need to create tasks for 200+ members, there is currently no efficient way of doing this 😕 I believe this is an important feature should be added. Thanks, Bashar ---
**Author:** ![RyanE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ryane/32/12382_2.png) [@RyanE](https://forum.asana.com/u/RyanE)\ **Post date:** [10 August 2018 13:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/6 "2018-08-10T13:55:06Z")
So have you tried the multi-assign stuff from [the article](https://asana.com/guide/team/advanced/save-time-in-asana#gl-task-copies)? I’ll do an example here because what you’ve said makes me feel like it should work for you. My team’s not very big and we don’t tend to have duplicated tasks too often, but when we do it’s nice. Basically you start with a task, whether a new one or one that’s been copied. Once you have the task that you want everyone on your team to work on, you click in the assignment field and then the icon of the two people in the right-hand side of the field: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/9/f/9f17796caa89fb9d935629dc87771df875db9851.png) Then you type in your team’s name: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/4/0/4093228394d80231996482d601ff1a1e60e43ac8.png) It’ll confirm how many people will get it: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/5/b/5b68efa6c3de9afc0feed99ed3d437198efc1163.png) This’ll happen: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/7/1/71734409516ea653ba1ecf0c444582504fe11c74.png) And you end up with this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/a/1/a1649872b22b616502448cada9ba961611309abf.png) I’m never sure why the one empty one remains, but I typically just delete it. Now I need to go get rid of all these tests before my team notices 🙂 You can also type in individual people if you don’t want the full team, but even that still saves a ton of time. Hope that helps, if not, more details of what isn’t working might help me come up with something else. ---
**Author:** ![Bashar\_Khdair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bashar_khdair/32/20867_2.png) [@Bashar\_Khdair](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bashar_Khdair)\ **Post date:** [13 August 2018 08:11 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/7 "2018-08-13T08:11:27Z")
Thank you very much Ryan, that’s what I was referring to, now it’s solved! 🙂 Many thanks again!! ---
**Author:** ![anon35943226](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon35943226](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon35943226)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 14:56 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/8 "2023-07-06T14:56:28Z")
Hey @RyanE when the other assignee gets a duplicated task assigned to them and mark it as complete from their end does it get completed on our end as in the one who created and assigned the duplicates to the rest of the team members? ---
**Author:** ![RyanE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ryane/32/12382_2.png) [@RyanE](https://forum.asana.com/u/RyanE)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 15:18 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/9 "2023-07-06T15:18:12Z")
They’re just individual duplicate tasks assigned to each person so there’s no tie-back to some other task. As the tasks are completed, I believe you could tell based on your notifications and because you created the task, but other than that I think you’ll have to check for completion. ---
**Author:** ![anon35943226](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon35943226](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon35943226)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 15:21 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/10 "2023-07-06T15:21:39Z")
Also i can only see one copy on my task dash when I duplicate it for the rest of the folks as well, but if I visit my team mates profiles in Asana I can see the test tasks on their profile. ---
**Author:** ![anon35943226](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon35943226](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon35943226)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 15:31 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/11 "2023-07-06T15:31:21Z")
@RyanE So what I mean is I see all the test duplicates that you created in one single image (the one you attached above, how do I see all the copies in a single space? ---
**Author:** ![RyanE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ryane/32/12382_2.png) [@RyanE](https://forum.asana.com/u/RyanE)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 16:12 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/12 "2023-07-06T16:12:36Z")
I’m not sure there’s a way to link them together after creating them other than to search for the task name or create them within a single task as subtasks first. The subtask method is the best I can think of. Create a parent task, then create a subtask under that, then duplicate that subtask to your team. Then you can click on the parent task that you’ve assigned to yourself as a “watch all these other tasks” task. 🙂 I honestly don’t use Asana as much as I used to, so there might be a better way today. ---
**Author:** ![anon35943226](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon35943226](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon35943226)\ **Post date:** [7 July 2023 05:20 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/13 "2023-07-07T05:20:02Z")
Alright, Thank you @RyanE ! Really appreciate your response 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Holland](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jim_holland/32/222926_2.png) [@Jim\_Holland](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jim_Holland)\ **Post date:** [30 January 2024 19:48 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/14 "2024-01-30T19:48:04Z")
@RyanE I’m learning to do this to streamline assigning tasks to my team this way and have run into a question with this: - When I assign a task to multiple people, it always shows me as a collaborator, which means I get the notes and marked completed notifications in my Asana inbox. They can remove me as a collaborator once it’s assigned, but people forget. Is there any way around this? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2024 01:18 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/15 "2024-01-31T01:18:17Z")
Welcome, @Jim_Holland, Could you do that yourself? (That’s what I do.) You can multi-select those tasks and remove yourself as collaborator from all with the bottom multi-select task bar. Thanks, Larry ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [30 May 2025 18:54 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/copying-tasks-multiple-times-using-assign-copies/27650/16 "2025-05-30T18:54:46Z")
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