I would recommend using custom fields for statuses.. I use one simple clickup status for all tasks ie todo/ done (some use todo/in progress/done). However I use multiple custom fields to achieve the granularity required to manage projects/tasks/subtasks in progress. I think stock clickup statuses are a nightmare and best avoided. I learnt this early and don't use them ouside of todo/done. I would encourage Clickup to scrap statuses completely and migrate them to custom fields. Then users get to choose whatever statuses they want for each item (eg Folder, Subfolder, List, task, subtask). Also there is much more control over custom field permissions. However Clickup definitely need to review the platform's permission structure. eg subtask permissions

Hi. Is there any progress with this functionality? Without it, we have quite a mess of statuses.

very keen to get this feature! any updates since the pinned survey above is coming up to a year old...

Caroline Ginty I have responded to the survey you shared. Hopefully we receive more updates on this feature request.

Can we please have an update on this?

Hi, is there an update on this yet? We really need to have different statuses for subtasks as the ones set for a Task don't make sense when applied to a subtask. Thanks

hi guys,

I would just like to confirm if you have already reviewed our input on what is important.

looking forward at hearing back! :-)

Hi there, any update on this? This would be major for our high-level projects and workitem subtasks setup, many thanks in advance!

Caroline Ginty Any updates? This would be super important. I filled out the survey because this is a much needed feature, but also just want to voice my own use case...

I am using one of my lists as a Client Database and I customized the statuses to indicate the client classification (for example: Core, Involved, Participant, Recipient, Potential) and I store every bit of data I have about our people using custom fields. But sometimes we also have follow ups that need to happen on some of our clients, so I'm utilizing the Subtasks as a place to store those. Because subtasks inherit the status from the parent task, my only options to see the progress of those (sub)tasks are "core, involved, participant, recipient, potential" which don't make sense - I need those subtasks to be "to do, in progress," etc. so we can know the progress of tasks related to the client record.

I don't want to have the client records separate from the tasks that need to be done related to the client.

The only workaround right now is to update my custom status to include EVERYTHING needed for both the parent and subtask (i.e. Core, Involved, Participant, Recipient, Potential, To Do, In Progress, On Hold, Completed). But that's not clean, so I'd prefer to have those separate.

Any progression? This would fit our current PMO setup in Clickup greatly.

We have Project-tasktype which hold all high-level information of a project, thus having a Project-status (e.g. New - Ongoing - Completed).

However, all the subtasks are real objectives and deliverables that need a different set of status (e.g. Assigned - Scheduled - Ongoing - Problem - Done).