Move/Copy entire Sections from one Project to another Project

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@R_Esmael,

  1. Yes
  2. You should see the indicated icon to be clicked:

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Thanks,

Larry

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I’m also having this issue. How was this not thought about in development???

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I just figured this out! All you have to do is:

Select a card.
Enter TAB +P
Add Task to a Project
 and a drop down menu comes up.
Choose the Project.
DONE!!!

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yes, that is moving some stuff, but we are still keen on moving an entire section to a different project


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Yes! I want to know.

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Now going on 3 years. Hah!

Who do we need to email to push this post (and feature request) up to the top?

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I can’t believe that this is not a priority for the development team. This is not a nice-to-have but a must-have.

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Adding our company to the list of people that want this feature.

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Adding to calls to prioritize improving copy/paste functionality ASAP . Copying individual tasks, sections, and associated project data fields should not be so cumbersome. We regularly deal in projects with hundreds of tasks and repeating activity cadences.

Scenarios:

  • I want to duplicate an entire project section to another area of my project while retaining specific data fields.
  • I want to copy specific field data (from one or more fields) from one set of tasks and paste that field data to another set of tasks (usually plain text data).
  • I want to copy a range of existing tasks and paste/duplicate those tasks into another area of my project with all of thier corresponding data.

When I scan the comments across boards about copy/paste functions, its disappointing that there are so many workarounds, but no native functionality


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Hi all - I may have missed it BUT reading and watching videos on this still doesn’t clarify. If I want to duplicate a section (tasks and subtasks) from one existing project, into another existing project WITHOUT connecting files, comments, completion dates, milestones etc, there is no other way than creating a duplicate of project, deleting stuff I don’t want, creating a template and somehow adding to project.
Is there a way to “click off” workflows from one project to another? HELP @lpb :pray:

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@Brandi_Rahill,

Two approaches exist to copy all tasks (with their subtasks, etc.) in a section to another project (or even section in this project):

  1. Duplicate the project and delete the extra (useful if there are many tasks in the section that you want copied)
  2. Duplicate each task in the section (useful if there are only a few tasks because each copy has to be done separately).

Either “Duplicate” option (project or task) offers a set of checkboxes; make sure they’re all toggled on/off to include what you need and exclude what you don’t. Note that checkbox called “Projects” or “Associated Projects” because that represents multi-homing which you may often want to turn off if you don’t want the task(s) multi-homed.

Start by creating the new section in the destination project.

If you do (1), then in the resulting duped project, multi-select the desired tasks (50 at a time) and re-home (add to destination project, remove from duped project). (Note: you wrote “creating a template”–that’s unnecessary.)

If you do (1) then multi-select the duped tasks (still in the source project) (50 at a time) and re-home (add to destination project, remove from source project). When you’re sure the tasks needed are in the destination project, delete the duped project but remember first to 1) unassign any assigned tasks, and 2) un-multi-home any tasks that are homed to other projects, because deleting the project will delete all other tasks that don’t meet those criteria but otherwise will leave those tasks behind and orphaned.

Not exactly sure what you mean there, but since you’re deleting the duped project and workflows are a project not a task resource, they’ll not be copied.

Thanks,

Larry

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thank you so much! Was trying to get out off doing all the extra work lol - (always looking for a shortcut) BUT the clinking off multi-homing would DEFINITELY help!! Thank you so much!!

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Thank you Mike! That works a treat for me.

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Also new to Asana (from Monday and Trello) and sorely missing the ability to duplicate / move a section of tasks.

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How is this still not possible to do??

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+1 This is just basic functionality that should have come pre-packaged.

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+1 Our whole team would GREATLY appreciate this additional function!

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We’ve had Asana for a few years but I’ve only got more deeply into it. The lack of basic features like this one (or archiving a section when complete) is astonishing. PLEASE add this simple functionality!

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Wow, this issue is still not resolved yet.

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hi

We have the same need here ! please Asana team, so many clients are asking for this since 2019 !

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