Custom Fields

[Julie Nguyen]

Will you eventually update Trello to allow custom fields that only apply to certain cards rather than apply to all cards on a board? I find it annoying that every time I move a card from one board to another board all of the custom fields carry over. 

[Rodolfo Moreira]

Hi Julie, Welcome to the Atlassian community! I hope you’re enjoying Trello.

You're right! Currently, when you create a custom field it gets added to all the cards on that board and when you then move a card between a board or copy a card to another board, any custom fields that had a value on that card will then be created on the new board. I definitely understand how this could be annoying, so I've flagged this as a feature request with the product team to have a look.

As an alternative, you can delete the custom fields from the new board to get rid of them, by following the below steps:

1. Go to the board you want to remove custom fields on
2. Click on Show Menu
3. Click on Custom fields
4. Select one of your custom fields from the list
5. Click on Delete field
6. Type in the name of the field and click Delete field
7. Repeat steps 4-6 for all the custom fields you want to delete

If you're curious about how our team decides on what requests we work on, we've also published a blog post with more detailed and visual information here: Where Do Your Trello Feature Requests Go? How We Unite Support And Product

If you'd like to see our latest features and future releases you can take a look at our roadmap at "Trello roadmap". 

Our mobile boards are available at: 

• Trello iOS App
• Trello Android app

I hope this information helps, have a great new year ahead.

[Julie Nguyen]

Thanks for the response. An alternative feature for your development team's consideration would be the ability to hide incomplete fields from the card and perhaps a button on the side providing an option to complete available fields. Right now, I am using a power-up that mirrors boards from 5 different boards that I have consolidated into one board which results in 30+ custom fields cluttering the top of each mirrored card. I'd like to hide fields that aren't relevant to the card so I don't have to scroll down each card to get to the checklists. Thank you.