Duplicating Multiple Tasks At Once

[anon7356319]

Hello! I am wondering if it is possible to select and duplicate multiple tasks at one time. For example… I am setting up Project and then building a section within that project. I would like to copy a section or the complete list of tasks in that section and be able to paste it into another project. Is this possible?

[Julien_RENAUD]

Hi
You can multi-select tasks, and then use Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V to copy and paste a list of task wherever you want (but it won’t copy assignees and dates, just the title of the tasks). Or you can duplicate a project and it wiil copy all the tasks at once.

Julien

[anon7356319]

Thank you for the response. I am not sure if I am doing it incorrectly but it is not working for me. I highlight the list of tasks I need to copy and then ctrl+c and then ctrl+v and it wont copy over. Suggestions?

[Julien_RENAUD]

It works only from the list view, have you tried from there?

[Justine_D]

It only works in list view, and you need to make a blank task and hit ctrl+v with your cursor in the task name. It won’t paste if you’re trying to hit ctrl+v while you still have the tasks selected.

I also have a workaround to duplicate multiple tasks and KEEP the assignees, dates, descriptions, etc.:

1. Make a copy of the entire project (you’ll delete it later)
2. In the project copy, select the tasks you want to duplicate and click the Edit project or section icon at the bottom of the screen
   
3. Add these tasks to the original project
4. Go back to the original project and move the tasks you added to wherever you need them to be in your project (by default, they show up in the first section)
5. Delete the copy of the project (you don’t need it anymore)

[Julien_RENAUD]

Great idea @Justine_D
And thank you for the additional info I forgot to mention on copy/paste

[lpb]

@anon7356319, for copying sections/multiple tasks in full (including their metadata) see also:

https://forum.asana.com/t/copy-sections-with-tasks/87074/3

Copy all tasks in a section to another

@Aaron_Aw, I’m not sure if multi-homing just those to a new project and then duplicating that project could be quicker; at least it will do them all in one fell swoop rather than one by one. If you try, let us know! Larry

Moving Entire Headings / Columns to new projects all at once?

@Michael_Hobbs, You might want to explore using Duplicate Project to copy everything, then remove the parts you don’t want…all of that carefully! Otherwise, you can’t replicate the Section/Column membership except manually. Hope that helps, Larry

Larry

[Veles]

Here is another workaround.
Add all the tasks you want to copy as subtasks to, let’s say, “Template task” then copy the task. It will be quite slow, but you do it only once. When the copy is complete you can do one of the following things:

1. Drag the subtasks out of the task (Works only in list view)

2. Add all the subtask to a project (tab+P)

This way you can copy all the things you want - from Task descriptions to Parent tasks.

[Christien_Konwiser]

It shouldn’t be so difficult for such an easy function to Copy and paste. This should be an incredible priority. Only able to copy over 50 at a time. Copy functionality is not intuitive. The copy function is incredibly cumbersome for a software that is promoting efficiency. Please improve. Moving over 200 tasks have been a nightmare.

[Heather_Palmer]

YES, completely agree!

[Adam49]

It’s insane to me reading this and similar threads on copy/paste functionality that there hasn’t been an improvement in 5+ years. Some of these threads go back to 2017 for something that Monday does incredibly simply and efficiently. The platform is based on simplicity and efficiency and paid plans are costly compared to many competitors, so for this to not be a supported feature despite many requests for many years is a real question mark.

[lpb]

Welcome, @Adam49,

You, and others, can vote for this feature here:

Ability to copy sections including all tasks in that section

I would like the ability to copy an entire section of a project including all tasks within that section. When you copy the section you would be able to give it a new name and all tasks would be duplicated into the new section. Currently we are in the process of implementing a new IT system at different locations. The project is currently setup such that each location has its own section in the project and we have to go thru the menu option to copy each task so that it also brings corresponding …

Thanks,

Larry

[Christian_Escalante]

There needs to be a better workaround. It should be simple to duplicate a task with multiple subtasks within a project.

[finfred]

This is unacceptable. This is such a basic function for rinse and repeat projects where you need the same tasks in the same order on multiple occassions within the same project.

SEE HERE:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qu9mSDg26aOelhq8H59EyET9LqSIBXF4/view?usp=sharing
This is what duplicating tasks should look like. It’s not that hard. Alt + drag and drop.

Instead it’s PAINFULLY SLOW.

And to add to that, the responsiveness of Asana is just plain bad. How is this program, web based, and relatively simple so clunky and slow?? No copy paste, no undo, no easily duplicating tasks without loading bars and weird pop-ups. Seriously, you guys should hire the Figma devs and get them to take a look at whatever is going on behind the pretty UI.

[Guthrie]

This is basic functionality, missing. Good grief.

[Stephen_Li]

@Guthrie (and others in this thread) - it’s not a perfect solution, but Asana has launched the ability to duplicate sections (within the same project or across projects). See this article for more info. I have been using this functionality to duplicate task lists across projects with good success.