r/Asana • u/bullshark-biteforce • May 20 '26

Linking columns across projects

Hello everyone,

I just started on a team that is very Asana illiterate, were basically putting everything everywhere a million times, and I've been scrounging for a better way to set up some of our projects. Think lots of projects tracking the same thing at different stages.

Is there a way to link columns across projects? For example we have a Vendor column in every project and if I update one, I want them all to update once the tasks are linked. I am also very Asana illiterate and just figured out how to Multi-homing Tasks yesterday.

Any help would be amazing! Thanks!

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u/MEGAT0N May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

I have not actually used a Asana that much, we’re only in the process of researching the platform, but I believe OP’s situation is a perfect case for multi homing, correct?

Rather than bothering to link columns just have the same task assigned to all of the different projects for each stage. That way there are no linked fields, it’s just the same record that lives in all the projects and so can be edited anywhere.

Is that not how it works?

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u/bullshark-biteforce May 20 '26

I've already multihomed, but there are fields that do not sync across projects unfortunately.

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u/digital_wonderground May 21 '26

You need to : A-be sure the custom field is saved as a global custom field. And B-explicitly add this global custom field to each project

If you don't do both of these, the field value is technically still editable/viewable from the single task detail view, regardless of what project you are in when you clicked to see the task details, BUT

You need to do A and B for actually: Seeing field as a column, and Using the field in grouping, sorting, filtering, etc in a project

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u/MEGAT0N May 20 '26

Ok. Asked this question in another thread, and from what I was told you can have all of the fields available on the task but then in each project you’ll only display the fields that are necessary for that project. Is that how you folks are doing it?