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

Any movement on this? Ideally custom fields could have an yes or no option as to whether subtasks will inherit that field from their parent task. Or all subtasks inherit the parent tasks custom fields but if you need to you can manually change it. My department uses subtasks and this would save a lot of time.

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Is there a way to make the subtasks automatically inherit the main task’s Priority?

I currently have rules that automatically create subtasks, but I can’t find a way to have the Priority trickle down to subtasks once it’s (Priority) selected on the main task.

*I do not have Flowsana

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Mimicking @Charissa_Bass’s sentiment since it has been a while. Any movement on the ability to copy parent task field values to the corresponding subtask field values? This would be immensely helpful.

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Its always the same.
Asana has some nice features, but when it comes to use them, there is always a last puzzle-peace missing.

So much wasted potential…

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Would also love to know if there is a way to do this without flowsana, since first posted?

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Hey!
I have a question regarding the work around.
When I multi select tasks and change a fiels for all, it doesn’t change it for the subtasks as well, unless I expand all tasks and then multi select them.

Is there a way to select all tasks and also the sub tasks in them wand change a field to all at once?

Thany you,
Oren

Welcome, @Oren_Bar_lev,

That’s the intended behavior.

Yes, that’s what’s shown in the screenshot above. If you’re not able to replicate that in your environment, include a screenshot to show us what you’re experiencing.

Thanks,

Larry

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Hi Phil, the “read about here” link goes to a 404 page. Can you please send a new link?

Link updated! (Here is the new one.)

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I am also looking to inherit a custom field on a subtask utilizing a single-select. Is there any movement?

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Would love to see this functionality! Is this in the Asana development roadmap?

Hi @Nicholas_Cusick,

Asana doesn’t publish a public roadmap, so we just have to wait and see if it’s something they announce as coming at some point.

When running a rule to create tasks or subtasks from a task, it would be great, if there would be a feature to inherit chosen custom fields from the trigger task the same way as it can be done for name, due date or assignee. Something like that:

That way you could choose which fields to inherit from trigger task by rule.

Peter

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Hi @Peter_san ,

I’ve merged your request with this existing one. You didn’t vote for your own topic, so no votes were transferred. You can vote for it at the top.