Add priority levels
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Catie Armstrong
It would be great to be able to add another priority level, and change colors of the current ones. I find that I have more levels of priority than the program allows. And some of the colors don't get my attention either, specifically the gray looks very similar to the clear.
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Caroline Ginty
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Ability to add custom priority levels 🚩
Constantino Stefan
Currently, ClickUp only supports 4 default priority levels (Urgent, High, Normal, Low). I’d love to have the ability to:
➕ Add more priority levels based on my team’s needs ➕
🎨 Customize the name, color, and icon for each level 🎨
⚠️ Define a custom hierarchy (e.g., “Critical,” “Very Low,” etc.) ⚠️
This would allow for more granular task management and better alignment with different workflows.
Caroline Ginty
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Add more priority levels
Evgeniy
Now we have only 5 priority levels (urgent, high, etc) which is not enough especially when I need to set an order of tasks for my developers. Would be great to have an ability to customize or create additional priority levels or just have about 10 levels instead of current 5.
Caroline Ginty
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Jonathan Lejon
Hi,
We are looking into getting an additional priority. Express, Urgent, High, Normal, Low.
Is this something you could add for in the priority custom field?
Thanks for your feedback!
Many thanks,
Jonathan
Caroline Ginty
Thanks for the feedback Constantino Stefan! While we don't support this today, have you explored using a Dropdown Custom Field for this? That would enable you to use custom colors, emojis in the names to serve as an icon, and define different priority levels depending on where you are in your Workspace. Cheers!
Constantino Stefan
Caroline Ginty Yes, we’ve thought about that, but you can’t set a list or board to be sorted by the priority you assign to the dropdown options. In other words, you can’t make the "highest priority" automatically appear at the top when sorting — ClickUp can’t read the priority order of a dropdown field.
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Michelle Schmuck
Either more levels of priority, or even a "subpriority" flag, would be amazing for my team. As it is we sometimes have difficulty determining what tasks need to be focused on first when a dozen or more are all just "high".
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Amanda Jones
It would be great if we could rename the priorities. We have things that are sometimes urgent depending on the day, and it would be great to have it flagged like "do not push" or something as we sometimes move task dates and such. Even if we don't add levels, it would be great to be able to rename them.
LBell
Custom priorities... Could impliment the Eisenhower Matrix strategy if I could rename the flags to:
Urgent + Important
Urgent + Not Important
Not Urgent + Important
Not Urgent + Not Important
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Mario Dieguez B.
Priorities could have a dynamic number assigned with multiple decimal levels.
Say if I'm looking at a specific List it may be pretty straight forward to assign priority to a relatively small group of tasks, but when you switch to the Folder, Space or even the Everything level, determining the relative priority of tasks from different contexts (Lists, Folders, Spaces) becomes a challenge.
So to help in assigning that realitve priority of tasks from various contexts, I propose a dynamic number set by dragging one or a group of tasks over another. Example:
If at the Folder level I am seeing 4 tasks from 2 Lists (2 tasks each) using a list view sorted by decreasing priority, and one task from each list has High priority, but I want the High priority task from List 1 to have higher priority than High priority task from List 2 (but not Urgent priority) I select task from List 1 and drag it above High priority task from List 2, dynamic priority would be incremented by 0.5 points.
Urgent 4
High 3
Normal 2
Low 1
Empty 0
So dynamic priority for High priority task for List 1 that was moved up would be updated to 3.5, while High priority task from List 2 (that sits below) would remain at 3.0.
If a task with priority of 3.5 is dragged above another task with same priority 3.5, then 0.005 is added to dynamic priority, thus getting a 3.55 priority. And so forth adding 0.0...5 to a "reasonable" maximum sublevels.
When broadening the scope to the Space level, one may eventually see too many priority levels. So to aid in simplifying the scenario, one could select a group of tasks with different but close priority values and have ClickUp equalize their priority, prompting to either move up (say to 3.55) or down (say to 3.5).
When grouping by priority, a special rule would be helpful such that would only take into account the integer (so 3.0, 3.5, and 3.55 go together).
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Arthur Wait
Add, delete, rename would be ideal.
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Rahul Dev
Not only customising the existing priority levels but adding the new priority levels & deleting the existing ones is extremely important. This is a core & basic feature of task management. The developers should take it up on the highest priority.
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