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

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/the-ability-for-custom-fields-to-inherit-parent-task-data/81908>\
**Category:** Product Ideas\
**Tags:** considered, custom-fields, tasks, subtasks\
**Created:** [29 April 2020 01:08 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/the-ability-for-custom-fields-to-inherit-parent-task-data/81908 "2020-04-29T01:08:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [20 July 2022 23:42 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/the-ability-for-custom-fields-to-inherit-parent-task-data/81908/5 "2022-07-20T23:42:32Z")

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Hi @anon12499563,

Our [Flowsana](https://flowsana.net) integration has some capabilities in this area in its Variable Substitution feature which you can [read about here](https://support.flowsana.net/help/variable-substitution-in-flowsana). In particular, note the part about using **{parent.[fieldname]}** to pull data from a parent task into a subtask.

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