Custom fields needed on subtasks

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Welcome to the Forum @sneakyaneurysm and thank you so much for sharing your feedback with us! We actually have an existing thread on this topic in the Forum :point_right: Custom fields needed on subtasks, so Iā€™ve gone ahead and merged your post with this main thread to gather all feedback in one place! Hope you donā€™t mind :slight_smile:

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I just want to add fields in my Sub tasks.
Please let me know the steps to do that.

Thanks !

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Hi @Pranjul_Sharma! This is a great question, subtasks do not inherit the project from their parent tasks for this reason you are not able to add custom fields. But you can quickly add subtasks to the project and you will be able to add custom fields.

You can do this by going into the subtask details and using Tab+P to open the project field or by going to the upper right drop-down and selecting ā€œAdd to Project.ā€ Please find more information in this article.

Thanks for your feedback! We already have a product feedback thread on this topic, I have gone ahead and merged this post with Custom fields needed on subtasks - #63 I hope you donā€™t mind!

Let me know if you have any questions :wink:

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Thanks @Emily_Roman

Never mind :wink: :crossed_fingers:

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It has been almost 3 years and 67 votes and still no custom fields in subtasks?!

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+1 for custom fields on subtasks

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69 votes for custom field on subtasks! @Janai_Wallace letā€™s make you #70!

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+1 for custom fields on subtasks.

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This is not a good option because it places the subtask (and sub-subtask, and sub-sub-subtask, etc.) on the main page level and thatā€™s not where we want it to be. If one has a huge project, one divides the main level into an easier to grasp overview by depending on subtasks that can only be seen once the main task is clicked, and itā€™s at the subtask levels where the custom fields are also needed.

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This is indeed a very bad option, but still a workaround :sweat_smile: Another workaround would be to have a second project with the same custom fields to which you add the subtasks. So the subtasks stay subtasks but they do have the fieldsā€¦

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Yes, I finally came to that second solution. :slight_smile: It does the trick.

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Workload + Custom Fields for subtasks would be a GAME CHANGER!!! I really hope that subtasks (in their inherent state, no workarounds) will be able to have custom fields applied in the near future. The ability to have one of these fields as an Effort condition to plot time allocations on tasks (and subtasks) across users would take Asana to the next level.

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Agreed @LEGGO , weā€™ve just started using Workload but without the ability to track time for sub-tasks too itā€™s pretty useless for us.

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I desperately need CUSTOM FIELDS for SUBTASKS. We are paying for 50 users and all of our projects have Tasks with MANY subtasks. Itā€™s silly to have to add every individual subtask to some random project.

Please Asana, when will this simple fix be added? Custom Fields for Subtasks +1000 votes for me.

May be a dealbreaker if I canā€™t get this working in the near future.

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+1 on sub-tasks having Custom Fields. :frowning:

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+1 for custom fields on sub-tasks!

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Why are subtasks not automatically added to the parent tasks project?

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HI @Jonny_MacEachern, you can learn more about this in the following post: Custom fields needed on subtasks - #63

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I get ā€œIt looks like you donā€™t have access to thisā€ when I click that link

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Apologies, the link was wrong, you should now be able to access it :slight_smile: