Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks (copy field values from parent to subtask)
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Caroline Ginty
Update Nov 2025: Hi everyone - this feature is one we are considering for next quarter's roadmap. It's still in pre-scoping stages, but we will share updates here as they are available. Thanks!
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Laurel McIntire
Similarly, would it be possible to have information put into subtasks rolled up to the parent task for a comprehensive overview?
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Cameron Ellis
Genuinely surprised this is still an issue. I tried the AI path, but wasted credits on it not generating the correct result so gave up.
Talia Makowsky
Any updates this year on this? Even an option to set an automation for a particular custom field?
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Thomonique Moore
Looking forward to this rolling out and updates in the meantime!
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Jack KW Aerts
I fixed this temporarily with an agent who does this for me:)
Logan
Jack KW Aerts Would you mind explaining this a little bit? Do you mean an AI agent? I'm curious about implementing your solution for my own team
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Jack KW Aerts
Logan I created an agent via AI in clickup that copies a number of fields from the main task to the subtask (if it is not already filled)
Zach
Merged in a post:
Have subtasks inherit the due date and recurrence of the parent task
Amy Lee
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Shawna Kalish
clickup Is there any update on this? It's kind of outrageous that it doesn't already exist. Having to manually change them for each individual subtask is not reasonable.
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Szymon Piech
Shawna Kalish I cant agree more... I feel like it's a deliberate action from ClickUp team to force users into AI route... Caroline Ginty can you please prove my pessimistic look is not grounded and give us some good news? Do we have any dates? We have currently delayed mass rollout of clickup because we are waiting for this bug to be fixed...
Caroline Ginty
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Custom fields inheritance automation
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Pracownia Horeca Maria Wysocka
I ask for automatic inheritance of Custom Fields from parent tasks to newly created tasks through Automations, but not just the field but its value
Caroline Ginty
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Custom Fields for Subtasks
Kristina Ota
It would be great to have the ability to have subtasks copy/adopt the same custom fields as the parent task without having to manually update them.
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Neil Hogan
God yes! I have tasks all over a large site so have custom location drop-downs.
Quite often i use a status change or other custom column to trigger the creation of a subtask or related task on another list, and the parent task's location needs to go with it!
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