People field saved to Library not showing in Library when I try to connect a Form field

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Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug you’re experiencing:
I am trying to connect a form question to a field I created and saved to the Field library. New saved field does not show in field library but when I try to recreate it, it says it has already been created.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to question on Creative Request form: Created By which is a single select dropdown.
  2. Click on Connect to Field
  3. Search the field library for previously saved fields so that the field auto-populates with the creator’s name.
  4. Saved field does not show so try to create again
  5. Asana says the field has already been created.

Browser version:
Chrome - latest version

What version of Asana are you using (Basic/Premium/Business/Enterprise)?
Business

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Can you confirm that the field in the library is defined to be a single-select field also? “Connect to field” only shows fields of the same type as the question’s type.

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Ahh, that is the issue. The field in the library is a “People” field. I’d prefer to be able to choose that instead of the single-select but it’s not an option to choose from when I edit the form.

How can I get that field to auto-populate the name of the person who is submitting the request so I don’t have to go into list view every time and add the name?

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I’m after the same information. Is there any way that a people field can added in a form?

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Hi @Daniel_Cabezas , unfortunately no, People fields are not supported in forms, currently, likely due to privacy reasons.

You could instead create a single-select field with names of people as dropdown options. This obviously add a maintenance/scalability issue but works like a charm when kept up-to-date.

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Thanks for your feedback, Richard.

I’ll leave it as a text field for the moment.

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Even better, as long as you don’t mind possible inconsistencies in name spelling, or you don’t need to extract data into dashboards (eg. how many times a certain person was selected)

PS. I’ve added ‘People’ to the start of the topic title for better searchability.

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