STILL no "planned duration" (in days) field in ClickUp?!?! What in the world? Checking back in with ClickUp nearly two years later, there is clearly an overwhelming desirability in the market for this. With all the new PM tools overly focused on Agile, the truth is not all PMs work for SaaS companies building and maintaining apps, and the reality remains that a disproportionate amount of projects in the world are still traditional/predictive (long-term planning against scope). Those PMs trying to "plan" out work don't want to manually select due dates for every task, task dependencies, etc. They want to build out WBS, get an understanding of timelines based on the work effort (not manually deciding, let the project reveal that), and then tailor projects accordingly. ClickUp, add Planned Durations; we've been asking. Move it from "Planned" to "In Progress." The concept of planned vs. actual hours, and planned vs. actual duration is still a thing, a pretty big thing for many PMs, and we want a native core solution to that, nothing duct-taped.

Since the feature request appears to be "Planned" we can assume it is not currently being worked on, which means we can only possibly hope this to be scheduled for development sometime in the future, and then however long it takes to develop and test, then ship... all means nobody should expect to see this anytime soon, in fact likely quite a ways out, assuming it even survives... So, it's still not clear what the recommended solution is in the meantime.

I agree that it’d be good to have a option to set duration for a task rather than only have date set. We have a set number of days per activity depending on a project scale so being able to set that in a template rather than have to think about actual dates would be advantageous.

You can already add dependencies between tasks to provide the relative movement of tasks based on that dependency (note you do need to toggle that movement feature on in the gannt settings).

The current limitations I see in this is that increasing a subtask duration doesn’t auto extend the main task duration - Ithis should be a mandatory feature I would have thought and I hope it is rectified in the near future.

I would love a feature in the date picker where you select the Start Date and can choose to add a certain number of days/weeks/months, and it would put in the Due Date automatically.

Likewise the reverse - to be able to put in the Due Date and have it put the Start Date in automatically based on how many days/weeks/months I choose.

I would not want this to be done just on Time Estimates, because I don't use Time Estimates (also, they are in hours, and also done based on working hours per day, which just makes things complex when you want to put in a broad term like "2 months").

The ability to have Start Date, Duration, and Due Date linked would be incredibly useful, especially if the Duration is lockable.

Can't believe this is still in planned after 3+ years. This feature is what allows long complex projects and differentiates project management tools. There are tools for planning and executing projects and there are ones for grocery shopping. Can we please move clickup from the grocery shopping ones?

WHEN!?

+1 🤦‍♂️

Wow, this was requested over 3 years ago and is still only "Planned"! Any update on when this might be available? To be able to automatically calculate the due date using the start date and time estimate would be AMAZING!