Preserve Tagging After Project/Task Duplication

Hi Bradley, thank you for sharing this on the Community! This is a really good suggestion. In case it helps for some cases, I wanted to mention that Folder tags get duplicated if they are a part of the structure that is being duplicated. This might not work since it would eventually result in several copies of similarly named Folder tags, but I wanted to mention it just in case. :)

Hi, We work in the same way so would be very interested if any changes are made to make this possible. We have to currently re-add the folder tags after every duplication and all of our Projects are template based.

This gets my vote! The use case is that our projects contain tasks for different products that we sell. We tag those tasks in separate product folders so that the product team(s) know when their products are being utilized and can track status, implementations and other data. 

Currently, when we duplicate a project template (that has the product tagging on tasks) we have to re-tag each task manually to the product after duplication. 

Thanks!

I should also add that I'm moving my enterprise in from another platform (Asana) where tagging is a core feature and used to manage categorization broadly. It's going to be a heavy lift to ask my user to remember to re-tag their tasks after every duplication. Cross-project tags are pretty much a required feature these days in order to manage searching and reporting when your org has hundreds of projects and thousands of tasks.

Thanks again!

Hi Noel, thanks for sharing your use case here, this really helps our teams understand the feedback and how it might be implemented. This is not on our developer's roadmap at the moment. I have passed on your suggestion to our Product team and if we have an update on this we'll be sure to post it here. 

Hello, Same issue here with same need to have the folder tags move over when duplicating a template. Entering everything manually causing my carpal tunnels to flair up. J/K.. But would be an awesome feature to streamline project management..

I also vote for this!  Here is my use case: I create a general task as template, and several subtasks under it. Each subtask has its own tag, since the subtasks are handled by different team. when new request come in, I just duplicate the template, and those subtasks need to be track by each team as well. Now only can manually re-tag one by one, it's very inconvenience.

If you can not keep all tags by default, at least provide an option to choose.

Thanks for continuing to share your use cases, everyone! @Yannie that's a good one, I'm just wondering whether it could help to add assignees from different teams to each subtask, and use that as a way of ensuring that different teams are aware of a new request?

@Anastasia, add assignee only can resolve the task assignment, but we would like to have a folder to review all the tasks for each team. To have the folder(Tag), we can do some analysis. And also we have many team members in each team, they will pick up the tasks by themselves, decided by capacity/leave/many other reasons, we don't want to have single person to own the tasks at the beginning. 

Yannie, thanks for clarifying, that's useful to know!

Yes, please implement that. If a task is marked as "Calendar", its duplicate should show up in the calendar, too. And certainly without duplicating the entire calendar! Means the external folder tag matters.

I would also suggest this for tasks. I have certain tasks in the template that I have tagged in the folder that those tasks should always be in. So upon duplication, it would be great if the tags were to copy over as well.

I would like to see the perservation of folder assignments after duplication of a template structure as well. We also have template based tasks.  I duplicate  that structure  about 45-55 times. I would love that the structure anbd its sub folders would come with their other folder tags and I donlt have to manually add them. ( about 4 sub folders in each of the 45 repeats!!)

I cannot believe that this hasn't been prioritized. This is critical for us to manage tasks effectively with multiple cross-functional stakeholders. When will this be on the road map? 

The option to keep tags from templates when duplicating and creating new projects would be a very helpful addition. The logic behind copying folder structure first to keep tags is not fully understandable for me. I hope for Q4. Thanks!

I was hoping this was default functionality. Especially valuable for use with the Salesforce integration so that the choose template has some merit rather than just adding a collection of tasks.

Keeping tags and assignees would allow us to have set templates assigning the tasks to the relevant teams and departments. 

@Mark Smedley -We've been using duplications for some time now with the following results...

- Assignments are kept

- Tags for folders within the project you are copying are kept

- Only tags to folders outside of the project structure are lost 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

- Dependencies to tasks within the project are kept

- I use 'duplicate' from right-clicking the project name in the sidebar most often because it lets me select options like 'copy description, assignments, attachments', and reschedule it. Plus I can add a prefix (like a project #) to every task to differentiate it from other copies. This means I can keep a timeline and dependencies intact and unique to the project.

- Using Request forms to duplicate a folder doesn't give you any of the above options.

Another yes vote.

Hi everyone, thanks for your continued support for this idea. I don't have an update to share at the moment, but I'll make sure to keep you informed when/if I have news. 

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Hi Lisa-- Can you confirm if duplicating from Blueprints will keep tagging? 

@Noel Hey, you can only tag a Blueprint with another Blueprint; you can’t designate a Folder/Project from the main Folder tree as a parent Folder/Project of a Blueprint. I'm happy to help if you have any other questions about Blueprints. 

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I would agree with the above comments. We use tagging to help with our marketing elements and reporting, and it is very inconvenient to have to re-tag everything after duplication.

Five years and still no solution or workflow. Please give us a possibility to do it.

Hi Lukas Flatz, thank you for posting. 

Please allow me to share a little detail on how we process Product Feedback. We receive many great ideas on Community, and we pass on all feedback to our Product team. If you'd like to find out more, this article explains what happens after we receive Product feedback. 

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I am also supporting this feature. I analyzed Wrike many years ago and I can see the product keeps evolving which is great but it's a fact that if you want to use it to manage different projects across different departments, and each of them has their own folder, you can't use duplicate project and make this work unless the tags for each department folder are replicated.

Maybe there is an option I am missing of duplicating projects with folders for each department inside and then creating an overview of all folders for that department belonging to all the projects you have. Is that a possible solution?

Welcome to the Community Ignasi Salvador 👋

Thank you for reaching out and supporting this suggestion. Currently, folder tags get duplicated if they are a part of the structure that is being duplicated. I hope that can help!

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We too would like this feature. Needed to be able to ensure teams can be tagged into tasks when a project is duplicated.

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