"Fake" or virtual users/items
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Sofia Borregaard
I would like to be allowed to assign a task to someone whom is not on click up, but is taking care of the task. It could be a company or a person where i would be able to create them under "users", give them a name and a picture, but not connect the user to anybody in clickup or anywhere ells. Users i create so that i can get an overview and remember who accepted to do a task.
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Brendan W
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Hey, everyone!
We wanted to provide an update to this Canny after taking in a lot of feedback, and spending a great amount of time thinking through this!
At this time, we believe our strategy of allowing unlimited free read-only guests on all paid plans enables our users to create accounts to be used as placeholders or in place of people who are not represented inside of your ClickUp Workspace.
Additionally, Business or Enterprise Plan Workspaces have access to unlimited Teams (user groups), which can be used today as placeholders for supplies, external contractors, etc.
This isn’t something we’re looking to implement now but will continue to monitor feedback and review comments left here!
Pedro Ramos
For me, it is not even about the number of users. As a team leader, I need to assign tasks to test out different workloads and have an overview of all my projects in order to better decide my resource allocation. This should be implemented ASAP. Considering moving my company out of clickup.
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Catalin Puiu
Ok, tried the Teams feature, seems to be doing most of what is required, besides making me feel totally freeky for adding a single person, a vehicle or a gas measuring device as a team.
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Vincent Borgne
Fully Agree as a new user it was the one of first feature that I found missing. For example my accountant will not connect to clickUP but I assign tasks to him.... So fake emails with fake profiles but very annoying and not encouraging to move premium.
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Kimberly Powell
WTFreak is this feature not being considered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????
Ryan Tirrell
You should reconsider. This is an exceptionally important feature for people who work as contractors (like myself). I would not ask 100 users at a Business to register on ClickUp. I would ask 5-6 Module Leads to join from each company and then be able to assign work to 20-30 'fake' users in each area, so that the work can be managed effectively.
You don't surely expect me to pay Hundreds or Thousands of Pounds per year for the privilege of managing a single project, surely?
Ruud
Ryan Tirrell: you can get the business plan for 6 users and create empty teams representing the other users.
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Wandrille RONCE
I personally stopped my Clickup subscription because of this.
When you use a free product, I'm all for being used, that's normal, but a product that I'm paying for, whose expansion marketing strategy takes precedence over providing a service to its users, doesn't bode well for the future...
Especially as the percentage of people who will force themselves to invite people they don't want to invite on their board because of this obligation must still be low, but dissatisfaction...?
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Paolo Posocco
definitevely, we need this feature
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Blake Hodges-Koch
It's ridiculous that this is still not a feature. Let us assign "fake" users to tasks so we don't have to send out dummy emails, or bug real people. Sorry, but I'm not going to invite high level investors or artists or various others who have no business/interest checking out our Clickup, but we still want to assign. I get it: you don't want to add a "fake" guest because you'd rather encourage the gathering of real email addresses into the Clickup database. But guess what? By making your productive better and more appealing to those who actually use it, odds are they will represent your brand to others in a much positive light, therefor drawing in actual potential new leads for you. As of now, seems like you're just annoying a lot of people. Also, assigning Teams is not a good workaround as that has its limitations. Let's end the silliness and give us a dummy/"fake" user feature please.
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Daniel Junghans
We are a mid sized company at steel construction and i would like to plan our fitters @ Clickup. So i need to give them a value of time and apply Tasks so we can manage the workload. A Workaround will not work an non of our employees in the does have a Email so we cant add them.
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James Wu
Here's my workaround: create a new column of type Labels, and then make a new label for each outside worker.
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Petr Chudoba
James Wu: Thanks for a great tip, works like a charm! :)
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James Wu
Furthermore, "dummy" free read-only guests do not work for the only views in which they would actually be useful, which is Gantt and Timeline view, because you cannot add guests as Assignees which is the only attribute those views can display. In the other views you can show Labels which is much easier than having to create read-only guests.
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