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Roger Hockey
In construction project management, tasks (e.g. "Wall Framing" or "Roof Sheeting") span days or weeks. Multiple people rotate across these tasks on different days. A supervisor needs to assign specific people to specific tasks on specific days, and workers need to see exactly what they are doing each day.
ClickUp currently has no way to say: "Tyler works on Wall Framing on Monday and Tuesday, then Roof Sheeting on Wednesday. Jared works on Wall Framing all week."
The existing options fall short:
  • Work by Day
    lets you allocate hours per day on a task, but it only affects Workload view. It doesn't show on the worker's Calendar, Planner, or mobile Day Card, so field staff can't see their daily schedule.
  • Multiple assignees
    on a multi-day task puts every assignee on every day, with no way to specify who works which day.
  • The only workaround
    is creating a subtask per person per day with a time estimate, which works but creates massive overhead for a supervisor scheduling 5-10 people across 3-5 jobs for a full week.
## What We Are Asking For
A drag-and-drop scheduling feature where a supervisor can:
  1. Drag a person onto a task for a specific day
    (or range of days) from a Workload or scheduling view. This would assign that person to that task for those specific days only.
  2. The assignment shows on the worker's Day Card and Calendar
    so they can open their phone and see: "Monday: Wall Framing at Job X. Tuesday: Wall Framing at Job X. Wednesday: Roof Sheeting at Job Y."
  3. The Workload view updates automatically
    to reflect the hours allocated to that person on those days, so the supervisor can see capacity filling up in real time as they schedule.
  4. No subtask creation required.
    The parent task remains a single task. The per-day, per-person assignments are a scheduling layer, not separate tasks.
Essentially: one task, multiple people, each person assigned to specific days, visible on both the supervisor's Workload view and the worker's daily schedule.
## Who This Helps
Construction companies, trades, agencies, consulting firms, and any team managing people across long-running tasks on multiple concurrent projects. This is standard functionality in traditional project scheduling tools (e.g. BEAMS, MS Project) and is the single biggest gap preventing ClickUp from replacing them for field-based industries.
## Current Workaround
Create a subtask per person per day with a single-day date and time estimate. This works for Workload view and mobile Day Card visibility, but creates dozens of subtasks per week per job, making it impractical at scale without significant administrative overhead.