Do not copy custom field
Asked by Julien Bonleu:

When you copy a card from a board to another, you have the option do copy members, labels and comments.

If the custom fields Power-up is enabled, is there a way to also have the option to copy or not the custom fields?

In some cases it is great to copy custom fields and there values but sometimes I would like to just copy the card without the custum fields.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Teddy
body: Hi Julien,

There is not currently a way to prevent cards with Custom Fields from replicating those fields after being moved to a new board. I'll definitely let our team know thats something that you'd be interested in seeing!

comments: author: Julien Bonleu
body: Thanks for the answer Chris. Let me know it is something that could interrest someone else.


author: Alex Rosa
body: I am also interested in this feature.


author: Gonzalo Zapata
body: Me to!

It's very necessary for the people who work with bords and cards templates.


author: fsicardi
body: i'm 100% in for this feature. It's actually being quiet a pain to see so many unnecesary fields when copying from A board to B board. Would be awesome if butler could support copying a card with customized set of fields and values.  
At least that should solve my issue.

Thx


author: Esme Crutchley
body: Sorry to jump in, but I'd like to add something here that I found out quite recently.

Custom Fields are limited to 50 per board.

If you move cards from one board to another it will only hold 50.

Example -

Board A has 35 Custom Fields

Board B has 35 Custom Fields

You move a card from Board B to Board A - some of those Custom Fields are going to disappear.

I've encountered this recently and had to completely change how I use Trello to try and minimise the number of CFs that I use. I lost a lot of information that I didn't even realise I'd lost doing this. While I know this might not be achievable for everyone, I thought I should point this out. Personally, I have changed a lot of mine to labels rather than CFs. This also means it's a lot easier to filter because you can filter by labels much easier!

Just thought I'd add my 2 cents!

Esme :)

Edit: I should say that it's ok if the CFs are the same, but if you have 1 CF for "Date" and another for "Date:" - these are different and will be treated as such. I've tried to reduce the CFs on my boards, and make them as unified as I can - but blimey that took some doing!


author: maxime armand
body: I'm interested in that feature too!   
Custom fields are specific to boards so I don't understand why they are copied with a card (and I'm talking about copying a card to a new board, not moving it to a new board)


author: Lucidefy
body: Me Too! We need this ASAP! It would be so helpful!


author: Zdenka Dostalova
body: PLEASE - I need it asap as well THANK YOU


author: MF_BOT
body: Me too!


author: WG Trello Admin
body: Me too please! We have automation which creates card copies from multiple boards and due to the issue noted by Esme above <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3555478> , we have reached the 50 limit.  

either raising the 50 limit, or being able to choose not to copy certain (or all) custom fields between cards would be great.


author: Alireza
body: 6 years later, still no updates on such a critical problem. this is ridicilous.


author: Fernanda L?pez Lagos
body: Three years later, still waiting for this to happen. We need to choose which custom fields to copy, or not to copy them at all!!

comments: author: Mark Cronin
body: Has there been any update on this topic, current behaviour when copying a card seems to be to create a custom field on the destination board if the cusotm field in the card being copied contains data.

If I wanted the custom fields on the destination board, I would create them myself.


author: Michelle Tither
body: I have an issue with this too - we have a rule where cards automatically get copied to other boards at certain stages of the process - I've managed to automatically delete the data not needed to be copied but can't delete the fields. I've notice if you copy a card manually, not copying the fields IS an option - why can't this happen when copied via a rule?


author: Robin Doherty
body: I **need** all custom fields to be copied to a new board. Getting half of them doesn't work.