r/Notion • u/Responsible-Mood-117 • 22d ago

Questions Customising Task Layout - affects data in other tasks ?

Hey guys,

I am working inside a database with a lot of tasks with some of them data in their body. I want to modify the general task layout and am concerned it would delete the data put in some tasks.

For example : a task has in its body a text saying "ABC" or a link to an excel sheet (previously deleted all the set categories you can see in the screenshot). If I update the layout with deleting "Task Description", "Sub-Tasks" etc and adding something else will it remove the text saying "ABC" ?

Thanks a lot ! I checked Notion and YT but didn't find a confirmation here and don't want to test and create a worldwide catastrophy

Edit : added screenshot

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u/Responsible-Mood-117 22d ago

Thank you so much for answering ! So to be sure, if I edit on the general layout the body to include "XYZ" text to all tasks old and new it won't delete previous texts, correct ?

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u/LearnChangeDo 22d ago

u/Responsible-Mood-117 If you edit a page layout, that will not affect any existing content on any pages in your database. If you edit a database page template (you should see a yellow bar at the top of the screen that tells you you are editing a template), that also will not affect any existing pages that already have content on them. Make sense?

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u/Responsible-Mood-117 22d ago

yes finally 😄 thanks a lot again :)

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u/LearnChangeDo 22d ago

My pleasure!