Mass Change of Subtask Inheritance

[Mason_McCoy]

So I’m pretty sure I am up a creek with this one, but posting here anyway with the prayer there is a way to fix this goof! I made a board for my team to help us with some of our weekly upload cadences. We upload for schedules for each building every week, so I created a task for each building that has 52 subtasks each. HOWEVER, I didn’t set any inheritance, and when I went to the dashboard to start making easy to track metrics, I realized none of my subtasks have some of the important custom fields that I wanted to be able to organize by…

Is there a way I can, en masse, change the inheritance of my subtasks to inherit one or more of the custom fields from the parent task? Image attached as an example of what my task looks like.

[Andrea_Mayer]

Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Mason_McCoy

Here is an existing feedback request thread regarding this topic

The ability for custom fields to inherit parent task data!?

Hi all, Firstly, apologies if I am creating a duplicate topic. I searched around the community forum and wasn’t able to find an answer to my question, nor anyone asking the question, for that matter. We have a scenario where some parent tasks and corresponding subtasks have the same custom field applied to them. In theory, the custom field on the parent task and corresponding subtask should always contain matching numeric data (but are susceptible to human error causing misalignment as the dat…

There are some things that can be accomplished via Flowsana like a user explained in this example.

[Christine_Bolton]

Hi @Mason_McCoy,

You can make bulk changes to your subtasks in list view. Use the expander next to the parent task and then use Asana’s Bulk-Edit feature to update custom fields. Please notes that you can only update 50 tasks at once.