Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks | Voters

Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks

under review

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November 21, 2019

Caroline Ginty

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Hi everyone - thank you for all the engagement and votes on this feature request! This is something we are actively thinking about and considering for later this year, in conjunction with the related feature request to allow rolling up Custom Field values from subtasks to parent tasks, which would be the inverse (https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/rollup-custom-field-values-from-subtasks-to-parent-task).

I will update here with more details as we get further into scoping what this would look like!

Toon Dams

Yes please this is a no brainer to have. I would save so much time and more important safe so much mental

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Copy Custom Field Responses on Subtasks

Olivia

Being able to set the subtasks to match the custom fields of the main tasks would be extremely helpful. On some lists, we have a lot of custom fields which makes setting an automation to copy them cumbersome.

A week ago

Mel Kline

This would be amazing to have! Hoping this can be completed soon!

Luca Coraci

This should be a basic feature when automating task creations. I think we all here are forced to achieve this by using external tools like Make/Zapier. Those tools make us pay for any little automation and its fair. But this specific one should come with basic tools in clickup

Michelle Stephens

Yes, please. It's a badly needed feature

James M. Grosser

It's hard to understand why this feature is only "under review." This is such a basic feature, you have to wonder how anyone could have designed an app with subtasks that doesn't include this feature. I feel like much of the time Clickup saves me is lost filling out fields in subtasks. I am using task types combined with automations to fill in some fields, but this doesn't work for all fields and automations sometimes don't run or run too slowly. Also - there is no "fill down" feature when using a task table. Smartsheet has this.

I'm wondering anyone has any workarounds while we wait for Clickup to finish "reviewing" this request.

Graham Thompson

Definitely need, seems a no-brainer option

Abby Dong

We have several revenue-assisting workflows that would significantly reduce manual time if we had this feature. Additionally, I’d like to highlight the use case of having multiple layers of subtasks and the ability to choose between inheriting field values from the top-level parent, the immediate parent, or any intermediate parent.

Khris Serrano

Hi Caroline Ginty this is very cool to see - is it on the roadmap? Would like to monitor and use as soon as it lands.

Khubaib Ahmed

Wonder why this very straightforward yet super critical feature is so much delayed - it's been 5 years ClickUp...

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