How to Duplicate a Task

Overview

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.

 

Table of Contents

• 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

 

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, Business, or Business Plus 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. (For more information about project permissions, check out this article: Introduction to Project Permission Levels: Administrators, Members, and Followers.

 

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

• Q&A: Can I link tasks together?
• How do I edit multiple Tasks at once?