How do I duplicate a task?

Overview & background

You can duplicate tasks on both web and mobile. This is particularly useful if you are on-site and need to document repeated issues such as a slab with multiple cracks. Rather than manually creating many tasks one by one, you can simply duplicate the task as many times as you need. This will create new tasks with the same title, category, assignee, priority, checklists, start/end dates, and hashtags.

 

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Duplicate tasks on the plan on the web

Duplicate tasks on the task view on the web

Duplicate tasks on mobile from the Plans tab

Duplicate tasks on mobile from the Task tab

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Duplicate tasks on the plan on the web

 

Step 1:

Simply right-click on a task and press duplicate.

Step 2:

You can then drop an identical task anywhere on the plan.

Tip: If you’d like to create multiple duplicates, just press the shift key before you drop the first new task on the plan, and hold shift to create as many duplicated tasks as you need.

 

Duplicate tasks on the task view on the web

 

You can also duplicate a task in the task dashboard.

Step 1:

Select the task

Step 2:

Select the red 'Actions' button

Step 3:

Select 'Duplicate' from the Actions drop-down menu

 

How to select then duplicate task using the Actions menu on the web

 

Duplicate tasks on mobile from the Plans tab

 

Step 1:

Hold down the task until an option to duplicate appears

Step 2:

Then simply click on the location to drop the duplicated task on a plan

What you see after holding down the task

 

Duplicate tasks on mobile from the Task view

Step 1: 

Navigate to the task you want to duplicate

Step 2: 

Long press on the task title

Step 3:

Select Duplicate Task

 

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Note: View of a task depends on project role and authorization. If a user has access to a task, they can email it (If on a Pro or Business Subscription). On the same note, Project Admins can delete any task on the Project; Project Members can delete tasks they have created. Project Followers can delete any empty Tasks they have created.

 

When duplicating tasks on mobile, the values that you have input in your task for your Custom Task Attributes will also be duplicated.

Note: This functionality is currently only available on mobile but will be on Web in the near future.

 

More information

• How you can link tasks together
• How you can batch edit multiple tasks at once
  
  

Tutorial on Exporting and Importing Tasks