Hi! I needed to create a project from a pre-defined template and I was able to accomplish that by making a request to this endpoint. Once the project gets created, I update a few project custom fields, which also exist for the children tasks and are pre-populated by the template.
I’d like to know what’s the most effective way to copy the project custom fields values over to the children tasks (if there’s a way to create a rule for this, I’d love to learn).
Thanks!
There’s no way to automatically have it happen either programmatically or via the web UI. You’d have to write code to loop through the tasks and update them via the API; or update the tasks in batches using multi-select in the web app.
It can’t be done via a rule because rules at the project level can’t take action on the tasks in the project.
Here’s a request for this type of capability that you’ll probably want to vote for: Project Custom Fields Triggering Task Custom Fields