Duplicate tasks and sections in Plans and Applications

You can now duplicate tasks in Plans and sections in Applications to quickly create similar tasks and sections, saving you time.

Duplicating tasks in Plans

In list view on the Plan tasks tab, click Duplicate task for the task you want to duplicate.

Duplicate task in Plans

You can also duplicate tasks in the flow view by selecting the task and clicking Duplicate.

When you duplicate a task, most of the details such as the dependencies, contributors, and approvers are copied from the original task to the duplicated task. The following information in the duplicate task differs from the original task:
  • Task name - The duplicated task name includes the original name and appends an underscore and number at the end of the task name.
  • Start and due dates - Dates that occur in the past are reset. For the start and due dates to be copied over to the duplicated task, the start date must occur in the future.
  • Attachments - Attachments are not copied to the duplicated task.
  • Submission logs - Contributions and approvals are not copied over and submission logs are reset in the duplicated task.
  • Task status - The task status for duplicated tasks is set to Closed.
Screen showing differences between the original and duplicate tasks

Duplicating sections in Applications

Under Application sections, click Duplicate section to duplicate a section that you have already created in your application.

Duplicate section icon
When you duplicate a section, details such as the Assets and Contributor groups are copied over to the duplicated item. The following information in the duplicate section is different from the original:
  • Section name - The duplicated section name includes the original name and appends an underscore and number at the end of the section name.
  • Attachments - Attachments are not copied from the original section to the duplicated section.
Screen showing differences in original and duplicate sections