Copy a Custom Field

Hi @Monique Evans. Thanks for the suggestion! We tried that initially, but after 2-3 seasons the list got too long to manage. Plus, we now need to include the dates for the season (2018-19) in the field name for reporting reasons - this results in us needing to create a whole new field.

Hi everyone who has up-voted for this product idea !

First of all, thanks for your patience with the decision making process.

Please be kindly informed that Workfront Product team has good news for you, and this product enhancement will make into our next 12-month product roadmap.

Kind Regards,

Mariam Paronyan

Product Manager

Hi everyone,

As an update on this, I wanted to let you know that upgrades to Custom Fields became a part of a bigger initiative and these sort of enhancements are going to be a part of it. Hence, I’m marking this idea as “Not Planned” as the delivery of it is falling out of Idea Exchange defined time frames.

We will be reaching you out proactively, during the research phase and in the meantime, I’d encourage you to add your use cases here for the future analysis by our team.

Best regards,

Gevorg Kazaryan

Product Manager

Workfront

I just had to create 50 Yes/No questions. I would have LOVED to just copy and paste. Please implement this!

I just had to create 50 Yes/No questions. I would have LOVED to just copy and paste. Please implement this!

Just adding to this idea because I've spent a lot of time entering 100+ options into new dropdown fields when in theory I could have copied an existing field with almost the exact same list of options.

To take this a step further though, it would be great to be able to export/download the options in an existing dropdown. Sometimes I've worked with business owners to build new fields that are similar to existing fields, and they like to know what the options are in the existing field before providing me with a new list. It's time-consuming to take screenshots when you can't see the full list on one screen (scroll, screenshot, scroll more, screenshot, scroll more, screenshot...).

Thank you!!

Adding here since I see this is 4 years old now, and I've run into this problem for the first time. I have 6 options on a dropdown and needed to copy/rename that 5 times and had to do it manually. Any update on implementation?

Adding here since I see this is 4 years old now, and I've run into this problem for the first time. I have 6 options on a dropdown and needed to copy/rename that 5 times and had to do it manually. Any update on implementation?

This is also very important for our organization. Please make it happen.

Thank you for the submission! We think this is a good enhancement to the Workfront platform overall and this product area in particular!

Workfront currently prioritizes large-scale, foundational enhancements such as the new Reporting experience and changes to the core data model, so this item does not fit in our near-term roadmap. As such, I am marking this as Declined now, but we'll keep this in our backlog for the improvements for this area so that we can revisit the decision in the future.