Multiple select for custom fields

We reall need this. Trello has this

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Great feature! Would be a huge lever to use in agile product development.

We really need this. This would be incredibly useful.

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Multi-select custom fields are coming! (Along with date and boolean custom field types.) Asana has pre-announced them to 3rd party developers:

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When is this coming? We are evaluating Asana for our business and this is critical to enable our use of the portfolio functionality.

I’m afraid the latest news is that it’s been delayed a bit - see this post:

Hey Phil,

Our team would also like to use multiple select fields for projects.

Wanted to comment to say this is a very hot feature we would love to use.

Would love this!

Couldn’t agree more, just wanted to add my voice to this request as this would be incredibly useful

Any update on this? Would be very helpful to our team as a feature!

May I ask is there a specific reason that the custom field is needed and that you can’t use tags for the same purpose? We use a task to describe the project in general and use custom tags for that project within that space. It also serves as a repository for documentation for the project. Just a thought.

Katie

A tag is a classification concept, not a set of inputs to a task. For example a trouble ticket with a list of software to be installed. The software could be the list of applications available and multiple could be selected. Also, using tags you would need a tag structure to account for multiple multi-select fields within an item: software and printers for example.

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Honestly, how is this still not a thing more than 2 years since the OP? Multi-select of custom variables seems pretty basic, and was, for instance, already available in Airtable and Monday, your competitors’ products, back in 2017!

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Agreed! This is sorely needed–especially to align with the form question functionality. Without the ability to create fields with multi-select options, I do not have a way to populate the information received through form submission into the task. This means manual work to look at the form response and then input the values into a field or try a workaround where I’m creating drop-down options that have every possible combination in order to capture the information.

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Any update on this?
we talk this update for 2 years

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Hi, is there any update on this? I’m also wondering why New Custom Field Types was closed without an explanation? does this mean dev has stopped working on all 3 custom fields? or are we tracking each custom field separately?

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Currently, custom fields do not allow multiple options to be selected. It would be great to have the option to turn on “allow multiple selections” when setting up/editing a new field.

My organization is trying to track approvals on specific tasks, many of which require at least four separate approvals, and are not linear stages to go through (for example, Exec Approval, Marketing team approval, etc.)

Our current workaround is through tags, but tags are more complicated for basic users, particularly since the section does not show up unless a tag is already applied to the task.

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There may be other ways but as an option to consider you can set that project up with 4 different custom fields each with the same selection options of the different approvals.

Role 1: Custom Field 1 (pull down): Exec Approval/Marketing Approval/etc
Role 2: Custom Field 2 (pull down): Exec Approval/Marketing Approval/etc
Role 3: Custom Field 3 (pull down): Exec Approval/Marketing Approval/etc
Role 4: Custom Field 4 (pull down): Exec Approval/Marketing Approval/etc

As approvers come in they pull down and select the option in the next available slot to apply their approval.

Cheers!
Justin

This request already exist on the forum, you can use the search engine to find it.

They are coming New custom field types
Existing request Multi-select custom field?