Allow custom date fields to replace due date as basis for gannt, timeline, and workload views
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Austin Glover
Currently the Gannt, Timeline, and Workload Views default to only working with task and subtask due dates. If you could have the option to replace the due date field with other custom date fields, you'd be able to vastly expand the use cases of these views. Our projects and tasks across all spaces use various custom date fields that allow for more accurate tracking instead of simply "due date". However, if you actually use these custom date fields to build out your clickup infrastructure than most of Clickup's features cease to work properly, as they all function from the core due date field. Please allow us the option to have the gannt chart or timeline place our tasks by any custom date field rather than just the stock "due date field".
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Vasil Enchev
If this ships as scoped, the Excel round-trip should go away 🎉 The planned behavior is that custom date fields can become the thing positioning the bar, so those columns finally render on the chart. Same idea for baselines too, as a read-only source, since a draggable baseline isn't a baseline.
When that lands, does your conditional-formatting grid become unnecessary, or is it doing something extra we should know about?
Vasil Enchev
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Planned. Exactly this, per view: choose which date field starts the bar and which one ends it. The two ends are independent, so you can mix them - your own field for the start and Due for the end, or the other way round.
They're editable too. Drag or resize a task and the write lands on the field you mapped, as long as you have edit rights on it. Fields you can't write to, like Gantt baselines, still position tasks on the axis but can't be dragged, and the picker marks them so you know before you pick. You'll also be able to create a new date field straight from the picker without leaving the view.
One honest note on sequencing: Timeline, Workload and Calendar come first, and Gantt follows in a second milestone because its renderer is separate. Start/Due stays the default everywhere, so this is purely opt-in.
Vasil Enchev
Merged in a post:
Workload View use Date Custom Fields
Brandon Isaacs
From support: Add the ability to use date custom fields to determine placement on the Workload view dates instead of just start and due dates.
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Becca Hughes
I very much support this. Being able to use custom date fields for a gantt view especially would open up many options. For our org, this would help us more accurately track at the portfolio level (looking across projects)
Vasil Enchev
Gantt is where this is planned to land, though it's second in the queue: Timeline, Workload and Calendar first, Gantt after, since its renderer is separate. Worth knowing Gantt baselines are also in the scoped plan as a selectable read-only source, so you could position bars off a baseline.
For portfolio tracking, which fields would you map? Curious whether it's baselines or your own planned dates.
Ricardo Gouveia
Vasil Enchev
I'd keep these separate. This one is about choosing which date drives a view, one start and one end. Yours is about showing planned and actual at the same time as overlaid bars, which is a different problem.
Partial help in the meantime: the scoped plan also includes Gantt baselines as a selectable read-only source here, so a baseline can position the bar. Does that cover part of your case, or do you specifically need both bars visible together?
Ricardo Gouveia
Planned Start / Planned Finish → used for baseline or plan (start and due dates)
Actual Start / Actual Finish → used for execution
Ability to display both or more dates simultaneously
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Delphine Gaillard
Ricardo Gouveia how do you do associate the baseline to custom field dates?
Ricardo Gouveia
Delphine Gaillard
Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, the baselines are just screenshots of the actual start and due dates of the whole list, so there’s no way to link custom fields to them directly.
At the moment, to view and manage custom field dates in a Gantt-style format, I export the data to Excel and manage those dates there using a conditional formatting grid.
Within ClickUp, we can only view the custom fields as columns alongside the Gantt chart, rather than directly integrated into the chart itself.
Vasil Enchev
Worth being precise so the planned status isn't over-read: we're starting with one start and one end per view. Simultaneous display of both pairs is a natural follow-on once that's in.
Closest thing in the scoped plan: Gantt baselines become a selectable read-only source, so you get a plan bar without a second field. Would baseline plus Actual get you most of the way, or is a true side-by-side overlay the requirement?
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Herlambang
helpful function
Christina Johnson
Please bump this feature up. We use gantt to visual heat maps and start and due dates are not the most useful dates for this in many use cases.
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Nicolò Bertoncin
Yes please! This incredibly useful implementation is in waiting list since February 2023, please implement it.
Caroline Ginty
Merged in a post:
Show Custom Date Fields
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Joseph Ross
Show custom date fields in timeline view, I have to use custom date fields to manage warranty cases, requests for equipment, managing availability between a fleet of devices. I use due dates to give me deadlines for things I need to action and start dates for when 'tickets' begin. I also have expected loan begin and end dates. It would be nice to see all these on the timeline view.
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