List copy and paste in form builder + custom fields

[JennyM84]

Hello! I’ve just finished creating a load of forms for our video production board, and to do so, I had to manually copy and paste a ton of our internal product tags from a spreadsheet, line by line, into the form builder. It would be awesome if Asana could build functionality like a lot of other form builders have where, if you copy and paste a list from a spreadsheet, it enters as separate line items. Same with custom fields! If I’m missing an obvious way to do this, I’d love to know, but I didn’t see an easy option for doing that.

[Rosario_Messina]

Hello @JennyM84

Indeed a good one; I gave my vote. Remember you can vote for your own submission too! The more votes, the highest the possibility that the request will get prioritised.

In the meantime, I wouldn’t say there is an obvious way of doing this, but there is a way

Check out this post by Bastien, you can import a CSV file into a project to create the custom fields in the project and then from within the form builder you can connect that specific custom field.

Create a custom fields with many options using the CSV importer

:rotating_light:I created a tool to make it easier and avoid this hack → Create a custom field drop down from a list [tool] Hi, What do you do if you want to create a custom field with 100 drop down options? Unless you have the trick below, you’ll be typing everything by hand. The trick comes from a client of ours: he imported his Excel file using the CSV importer to create all the options in a single shot. Here’s how to do it: create a file with 2 colum…

Cheers,
Rosario

[JennyM84]

Thanks, Rosario! That’s super helpful, and I’ll implement that going forward for any massive lists I need to import.