When dealing with numerous custom fields, keeping them in the right order can speed up your workflow and make it easier to find key information.

By reordering custom fields to your liking, you can prioritize the data that matters most and ensure consistency across your work in Productive.

To reorder custom fields, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Custom fields, or click your avatar in the upper right and go to Customize > Custom Fields, then go to the relevant section (for example, Projects).

📌 Employee fields, which can also be reordered, are in Settings > Employee fields.

2. You’ll see a list of custom fields for that section. To change the order (for example, from One > Two > Three to Three > Two > One), use the handle next to each field to rearrange them.

3. Go back to the project, open the project sidebar, and go to the custom fields tab. The custom fields are now displayed in the order you’ve set.

Task custom fields can be global (applicable across all tasks and saved in the task custom field library) or local (specific to individual projects).

Global task custom fields are found in Settings > Custom fields > Tasks (or Customize > Custom Fields > Tasks) but cannot be reordered from this menu.

To adjust their order, you must do so directly within a project.

To reorder task custom fields:

Rearrange the task custom fields as needed (both global and local).

To check the new order, open a task within the project and look at the custom fields on the right.