Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks (copy field values from parent to subtask) | Voters

Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks (copy field values from parent to subtask)

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November 21, 2019

Caroline Ginty

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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!

Caroline Ginty

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!

Devin Shea

Caroline Ginty it would be amazing if you add columns for parent tasks and subtasks, and let it show up as a relationship for the roll-up field, that could solve this plus even more workflow challenges.

Helen Gamage

Caroline Ginty - this would be amazing currently we are creating complex automations with CLickUp's help to do exactly this - the only thing I would add to the request though is that you can choose which fields are inherited in a list vs which fields are not - as some data you need to be unique but the bulk you probably want inherited.

Mark Verschuuren

Caroline Ginty We do this already for a very long time. I call it the "Custom Field Copier" . After introducing it, the feedback from all our users was the option the enable this per location (Space, Folder, List) and an option to exclude certain fields. We made that possible and this is very well received now and saves a lot of time. So please take this into consideration when building this feature in ClickUp.

Ondra Hájek

Caroline Ginty that's great news. And as you'll be into it, could you also work on copying custom fields to new tasks using automations? it would help us avoid so much clicking

Szymon Piech

Caroline Ginty That would be fantastic! We lose so much time copying the fields down the list when adding subtasks...

Raina Ahuja

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Joe Rapuano

Is this feature being developed? It's insane that this doesn't exist already/is not possible.

Joe Rapuano

+1 to this. This feature needs to exist.

Fábio Oliveira Salviano

that would be a great help!!!

Susie Marriott

I can't believe there isn't already a setting for this - I thought I was just not looking in the right place! Please sort this, it's such a pain to have to manually add things across.

It would also be good if people added to subtasks were added automatically to the parent task too

Dave Ryan

cant find the vote button but this a fundamental that you can cascade a property/field to subtasks and nested subtasks as we try and keep the tasks connected across disparate teams

Nico Cactus

When you create a subtask that can inherit custom fields and especially in automations, you can choose to inherit parent tasks.

Ana Paula de Souza Zimmermann

It would help the team a lot with this feature. Any predictions for when this might happen?

Lynn Spina

PLEASE get this option active ASAP - 90% of my subtasks run automations dependent on the Parent Tasks custom fields. I used to be able to run them, and some other update changed that. Conditional rules and retroactive applications would be helpful, but just standard copying of custom fields from parent task to it's subtasks is paramount for my functionality. Without it, I am manually copying about 25 custom fields into about 10 subtasks for EVERY parent task in order to run my automations. Please hurry!! And thank you.

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