Moving or Duplicating Custom Item Types

I think it would be helpful to be able to move and/or duplicate Custom Item Type templates. Right now, if I make a template in a space, but then realize after using it that it needs to be account wide, I have to recreate the CIT template at the account level and change the item type of anything already created at the space level to the new one. If we could move the CIT templates from space to account or space to space, this could be avoided.

Additionally, I would like to be able to duplicate the CIT templates with all the settings/fields. I need to make a bunch of different CITs that are all very similar; workflow, visible fields, custom fields are all the same. The only difference is when filling out the custom fields. It would be much quicker to create CIT if I could duplicate the templates.

I would like to be able to fill in the custom field in the CIT template as a default setting when using the CIT, duplicate the template, change the title and custom field entry, and repeat.

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Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thank you for sharing such detailed feedback in relation to custom item types @Claire Findlay! I will pass it on yo our Product team shortly.

Welcome to the Community 🙂

Austin Headley

Yeah I was surprised this wasn't possible. I was looking into changing over from Blueprints/Tasks to custom item types for my intake forms that load tasks based on options chosen, but I can't pre-populate custom fields in a custom item type (or Blueprint), nor do subtasks created through a form take on the properties of the main task.

Custom item types were nice because I can customize what fields show based on the type of deliverable chosen - one of the pain points in our workflow is every custom field shows up for every task. But not seeing a solution that works for my needs yet - I'm stuck with a folder called Templates with pre-populated tasks in there.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thanks a lot for sharing your use case in detail @Austin Headley, this is very helpful, I'll be sending your feedback to our team responsible for custom item types 🙌

Lukas Flatz

To duplicate stuff is one of the core function of wrike in the build phase. I was really suprised that was not implemented with the CITs. Now I have to do the same steps several times. I hope at least with the API function would that be possible.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hey @Lukas Flatz, I'm now checking with our product team to see if there are any updates on the the topic of duplicating custom item types. I'll let you know if there is any news 👍

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi folks, I checked with the team now - they would like to do this in the future, but for now, it's not on the roadmap yet. We'll keep you posted!

Laura Boylan

The ability to duplicate an existing item type would be a big time saver for us as well.

Kerri Zollers

I agree. We are building all of our blueprints/projects with CITs. This gives teams the ability to create a dashboard with the tasks that matter to them.

This is very time consuming starting from scratch each time. Many times there are only one or two updates to an existing CIT to create a new CIT. Being able to duplicate a CIT would be a huge time saver.

Sara Psachos

Ugh. I need this!!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thank you for your feedback here, folks! Please be sure to also upvote the main post above if you haven't yet: votes help our team understand how much interest there is for an idea here in the Community.

Kelly Hanson

We definitely need the functionality to duplicate custom item types. Many of them are very similar but need one or two different custom fields visible so rather than having to recreate every one from scratch - it would save an incredible amount of time to just duplicate one that's similar to what we need and adjust.

Michelle Potts

I agree with the comments and I'm adding in my vote. This would be hugely helpful!

Lea Labastida

I have added my vote as well. We need this!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thanks, everyone!

Joesph Hoffmann

You've got my 1up too. I usually prototype new templates and experiments in a separate space before deploying to our development spaces. I would love the ability to copy or invite new spaces access to an existing space-specific CIT. I was surprised/annoyed that I couldn't directly use what I created in my sandbox space.

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Joesph Hoffmann, thank you for sharing your feedback with us, please rest assured that your comment has been noted and that we are making our Product Team aware of your experiences.

We will keep you updated in case any changes are implemented 👍 Please, let us know if there is anything else we can help you with.

Benjamin Hille

Plus one.

Juan Muttoni

Thank you @Benjamin Hille! 👍

Benjamin Rodd

Yes, this is pretty essential. we are building out CITs with a group of core custom fields in them...I'm having to do the same job again and again and again right now. painful.

Robb Nardecchia

This functionality absolutely needs to exist. A team has developed and tested CIT's in their own space, and now that we want them to be account wide, or in other spaces -- we have no way to easily do this.

Ronan Labitoria

I agree 100%. We need this feature and this should've been added already. This was raised in Nov2022 and I hope we can do something about this.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi folks, thank you for your continued feedback here!

Please don't forget to upvote the main post here - we're getting closer to 60 votes and we'll be soon adding one of our statuses here 👍

Anna Schild

I agree with the original post from 2022 - I created a CIT in a space but now realize that I need it at the account level instead. It seems like I'm going to have to re-create it at the account level, mass edit all of the tasks that are using the space-CIT and update them to use the account-level-CIT instead, then delete the space-CIT. Seems like a bit of hassle compared to moving the space-CIT to become an account-CIT.

Tania Heap

Upvoted! Yes, please!

Bridget Dalen

Hi, I'm here to upvote! I'm using the custom item with my request form, and I'd LOVE to duplicate.

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Anna Schild @Tania Heap @Bridget Dalen thank you for your feedback! I've passed it on to our Product Team 👍

Sara Snuggs

Upvote added, this would be very helpful us!

Juan Muttoni

Thank you @Sara Snuggs!

Dimitris Felekis

upvote!

Jeanine Kennedy

Another upvote. This would be very helpful for our team.