Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks
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Caroline Ginty
Hi everyone - thank you for the engagement and excitement on this feature request! We are always looking for ways to improve, and this is certainly a top of mind request. I don't have anything concrete to share at this time, as our team has been focused on delivering the Custom Field Manager, improvements to Formulas, Relationships, and Subfolders, but I will certainly keep this post updated with anything new. In the meantime, please continue to vote and provide examples of how you would use this feature, as it's always incredibly helpful to us!
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Andrew Tomassetti
Is this on the roadmap? Or at least on the roadmap to get on the roadmap?
Custom fields are great but when you can't bring them down to the subtask level it doesn't just impact the view from a list perspective, but also increases the amount of data cleanup to ensure when filtering and looking at dashboard cards you are not missing anything on counts. There are a ton of fields we need to roll down from a parent (epic) in our case and not being able to automate that is frustrating.
In Automations you can do this with text fields, where it gives the option to select any text value that is brought in from the parent, custom fields should have the same ability and it's obvious this is one of the more popular requests.
Is this being looked at for consideration currently?
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faye p
Sooooo useful
Garrett Jackson
We use parent tasks for services we provide our clients. So every time we move a subtask under it, it would save so much time to have it inherit a number of custom fields. We can set this up as an automation, but we would have to do it for every single service across all clients.
Katie Redmond
This is remarkably crucial for our business and reporting needs and absolutely stunning that it isn't OOTB functionality. This needs to be added to the roadmap!!
Emily Fink
This would be SO helpful for my team, especially for new team members learning the ins and outs of ClickUp! It can be confusing for them to understand where to look to find certain information in the parent custom fields.
Zach Cole
This would be incredibly helpful across my entire organization!
Michelle Kreuter
UP VOTE!!
Anthony C.
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Text tag to carry the text with that tag over to all dependent tasks
Ali High
We have lots of jobs with dependent tasks/subtasks. The video editor prepares a video. They put the path for the video in THEIR task/subtask. The subtitler then has to click through to the video editor's task just to know where they need to go to get the file. There are probably plenty of other use cases scenarios too.
If we could have a [pin text] tag or something similar just to let clickup know that this text needs to be copied as is to all dependent tasks, that would be a game-changer for us.
Caroline Ginty
Caroline Ginty
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Add a Custom Field that Displays the Parent Task Status on all Sub-tasks
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Keith Boone
I constantly am checking on the status of a Parent Task when looking at a Sub-Task to see the Status of the Parent Task. I'd like to be able to have a field, and add it to a list, that displays the Parent Task Status. This will help make sure we are working on the right sub-tasks (i.e. we shouldn't be doing work on a sub-task if the parent task is in an inactive status, or if I am choosing between two sub-tasks to work on I should pick the one with the parent status in Working vs Pipeline).
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