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Level 6
February 15, 2017
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Copy a Custom Field

  • February 15, 2017
  • 20 replies
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Having the functionality to copy a custom field will be hugely beneficial to the users in charge of managing the forms and System Administrators. Currently if I, for example, have a dropdown with 100 choices, and want to have a second dropdown with 99 choices, I will have to manually recreate all those 99 choices.

20 replies

Level 2
August 8, 2017

Using the same custom field on a request more than once would be helpful as well so we don't have to create slightly modified versions. In a lot of our forms we ask for slightly different information (ex. company A's primary category and company B's primary category. A section break can define a lot and then the same custom field could be used with respect to multiple issues.

Level 4
September 15, 2017

I am having the same issue. This would be a huge improvement.

October 17, 2017

Agreed. I've worked with clients where we have dropdowns with 10s and hundreds of options, and they need that field 5 times. We've handled with a kick-start, but that's cumbersome and tricky too. It would be extremely beneficial to have a copy function.

Level 10
October 20, 2017

I agree, this option would be very helpful in the efficiency of building forms.

Level 2
February 28, 2018

I would also agree that this would be beneficial

MoniqueEvans
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 23, 2018

I'm creating a skills inventory form right now and each question has the same answer choices, but I have to type out the 5 options for every new field; which is causing more time than it would to make the same thing in Excel.

Level 6
May 30, 2018

We have found the same problem here. We need to duplicate a number of fields between 10-15 times and it has been very time consuming not being able to copy the fields.

Level 6
May 30, 2018

It's been two plus years since this amazing suggestion was entered by an extremely talented individual -- I hope Workfront can prioritize this huge time saving feature.... ;-)

Level 3
June 27, 2018

We have a field for our player roster each season that usually only involves a handful of changes from year to year. It would be very helpful to be able to leave the core roster intact and only have to delete and add a few names to make the new field.

MoniqueEvans
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
June 27, 2018

@Barb Pilarski, for your instance could you add new players and hide the old ones so that you keep the same field instead of making a new one each year?