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Remove Custom Field from a Specific Card

Charlie Cipolla

I created a (text) Custom Field that's only applicable to some of the cards on the Trello Board, but it's appearing on all the cards. And I don't see the ability to delete the custom field from the other cards that do not need it.

Is there a way to:

1 - Add the Custom Field to certain cards only, or

2 - Delete the Custom Field from the cards that do not need it?

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Iain Dooley

@Charlie Cipolla Custom fields are at the board level, so if you want fields to change you'll need the cards to move to different boards. This may or may not be practical depending on your workflow -- when you add more boards you always risk complication unless you manage it properly, especially effective if you employ automation.

What workflow outcome are you looking to achieve? There may be an alternative.

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Iain Dooley

What workflow outcome are you looking to achieve? There may be an alternative.

Dean Morgan

@Iain Dooley

I seem to have come across a number of requests for this in the community in my search to essentially achieve the same as Charlie, and in all instances I have found the response to be that custom fields are board-specific rather than card-specific.

However I have recently received an email from Trello including a blog post from @britt_joiner (https://trello.com/b/M0YqG8f0/daily-habits-goals-tracker) whereby the daily journal set of cards have the custom fields but the rest of the board doesn't? It'd be great if this could be explained by someone - if it could be achieved I'm sure there would be plenty of people eager to use this way of working

Thanks in advance any who may be able to help!

Iain Dooley

@Dean Morgan What you might me noticing is that custom fields only show on the front of the card when a value is set on them and some fields can be set to not show on the front of the card at all

Dean Morgan

That makes perfect sense @Iain Dooley but if you open up the link I pasted - I'm assuming you've perhaps not? - you will see that on the cards in the daily journal list have the custom fields, visible when the cards are opened up. Yet if you open any other cards within the board, the custom fields are not visible at all?

Thank you for getting back to me!

Dean Morgan

@Iain Dooley perhaps it just loaded up differently on my end for whatever reason- if you can't see it, it would make sense!

Really appreciate you taking a look and feeding back to me. It's a shame it's not working as I thought, I was hoping I'd stumbled across a solution!

Thanks again,

Dean

Iain Dooley

@Dean Morgan I see the discrepancy. I opened it initially on iOS which shows the custom fields on all cards, even though they're not editable.

If you open it on Desktop (app or web) you will not see the custom fields on the cards that don't have the values set because you're not a member of the board and can't edit them.

If you copy the board then you'll see that the custom fields appear on all the cards.

You're right though: this request comes up a fair bit.

I wonder why though: what's the use case for it?

Dean Morgan

@Iain Dooley that makes perfect sense! thank you for looking even further into this, I really appreciate it!

For me, it was to emulate the habit tracker described in the board I shared with you though I must confess, before finding the board in question, I'd not really found a use for the powerup!

Thanks again! Take care

Kali McCullough

Hi @Iain Dooley I'm also having this issue, and it also cropped up after reading @britt_joiner's post about her daily habit tracker. I have one board designed as an Eisenhower matrix, with an added "daily journal-esque" log card. I want to use the journal card to track water intake, exercise, etc., so I created custom fields. However, I don't want or need the water intake, exercise, etc. fields showing up on my "Urgent/Important" or other cards. Is there a better way to accomplish what I'm looking to do, without creating a separate board for habit tracking? I know myself, and if it's on a different board, I'll never go look at it. Thanks for your help!

Demis D_ John

@Iain Dooley

To answer the question of "why do people request this", here is my use case:

I am trying to have one board that shows different types of Jobs (microchip mfg., versus equipment repair). The workflow is nearly identical, but the data for the different job types is very slightly different by only one or 2 "custom fields".

For example only Microchip Mfg. has a "customer", while Equipment Repair has "which machine" instead.

Whereas I could make a separate board for each type of work, that would then lose the ability to prioritize either type of Job for an employee (for example, I'd lose the ability for one board to show that I want you to repair this Gizmo Inc. machine. before you start that microchip for Sharon Inc..) - I haven't yet found a way to have multiple boards be "viewed" as one agregate board.

So instead, it would be easier to have a Custom Field for "Customer" that is only on the "Microchip Mfg." template card, but doesn't show up in the "Equip. Repair" cards (or template).

Demis D_ John

Actually, you mentioned that this ability is nearly implemented fully - an Observer will Not see custom fields with no value.

If the "Custom Fields" plugin had an option to "Hide if no value" for members as well, then perhaps we'd have the feature we are looking for? (Although then you'd have trouble editing it's value... not sure how to solve that.)

Andi Tran

I am also wondering if there's been an update to this. I like to have the ability to customise my cards and lists within a board, and I would prefer to have less clutter when I open the cards (if I need to) as not all my lists require the same custom fields. As an idea, would it be possible for us to choose at what level the custom field should apply (i.e. board, list, card)? As there are many people requesting this feature, it sounds like it's something that is wanted. Thanks!

Falcon_l8lrs5

Hi guys, I have been using Trello for many years and is recently applying the Custom Fields tool on my new board. I share the same feeling that it is inconvenient as the user cannot decide which level (board/list/card) the custom fields should apply.

According to the above discussion, seems that currently the only method to remove the custom field of a specific card is moving it to another board?

Patrick Bland

+1 on this - would be nice if Trello had the ability to create card types in a board. So you could have Card Type 1 with the following custom fields in the card: A, B, C, D. And Card Type 2 would have the following fields: B, E, F, G.

Jennifer Lange Schneider

Yes! Please!

Elisa Cerquozzi

Any update on this yet?

On my board, I'm looking to use custom fields only on certain lists.
I don't want the option for custom fields to display on every single list.

Thanks for any info!

Ushuaia

Hi,

Is there a workaround for this???? It doesn't make sense that for every custom field that you create, you have to have this fields in other cards too!

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