Creating custom fields

[Kellee_Kosiorek]

Does anyone have any experience creating a custom field where you can choose more than 1 option in the drop-down? For example, I’m trying to create a content calendar and would like a drop-down for social platforms, but sometimes one piece of content is published on more than one platform and I would like to track that. Suggestions??

Thanks for the help

[Sara_Westland]

I had never actually thought about doing it that way, rather my social calendar has custom field options for each platform and then a combination of platforms.

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Kellee_Kosiorek,

As you’ve seen, Asana does not currently provide custom fields that support multiple selection. It’s something that’s been requested; you should add your vote for it here:

Multiple select for custom fields

I’m having to create a workaround for a multiple select field with custom fields. The drop downs don’t allow for multi-select, and I’m creating manual text fields where my team members can type in multiples, but that seems inefficient. WOuld it be possible to have multi-select, or be able to tie validated values to a text input field to address? Also if you can select a custom field or a set of custom fields to be standard across the environment or specific projects from a singular management p…

In terms of workarounds, the two that I can think of are the one that @Sara_Westland illustrated above, and using Tags instead of a custom field since you can add multiple Tags to a task.

[Bastien_Siebman]

Or you can have several times the same (or almost the same) custom fields like “Platform #1” “Platform #2” “Platform #3” But Sara’s idea is great!

[Kellee_Kosiorek]

Hi all - thanks so much for your quick help

Much appreciated!