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Ordering of custom fields in task

Quinn Danyluk

When custom fields are created, the order of the fields can be customized in the Manage custom fields for the list view. However, this does not translate to the order that the custom fields appear in the task (which is set strictly to an alphabetical order). The order in the task should be customizable and reflect the order in the Manage custom fields.

October 29, 2020

Caroline Ginty

Pinned

Hi all - thanks for the feedback on this! We currently allow for either A-Z ordering for custom fields, or drag/drop manual reordering; however, there is a certain order that is always respected today: Required Custom Fields, Pinned Custom Fields, Custom Fields w/ values, Custom Fields w/o values. 
I'd love to hear from you here on how you would like to see this ordering work for custom fields across your Workspace to best enable your workflows across teams!
How to set up manual sorting for Custom Fields on task view: https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/18332756185751-Manually-sort-Custom-Fields

Caroline Ginty

Hi everyone! Thank you for all the comments and feedback here so far. 
We are working on scoping some potential solutions aimed at the overall problem of Custom Field sprawl and clutter across Workspaces to figure out the best way to address this challenge. 
We would love your input via this quick survey to understand what would be most helpful to you: https://click-up.typeform.com/to/KVx73bs2
Thanks in advance for your help!

Daniel Urbano

Caroline Ginty done!
A great addition would be "Coded Names" for better organizing Custom Fields, which would be visible only in the properties or settings of the custom field, different from the current regular Name (Could be "Shown" Name).
Also, Custom Field "Contexts", mentioned in my typeform response, to reduce duplicate fields.

Caroline Ginty

Daniel Urbano Thanks for the suggestion and for filling out the survey - it's greatly appreciated!

Heather B

Hi. I have created a Form to enter specific required information for our tasks. This means that out tasks are all formatted in the same way and no information is forgotten about before the task is reviewed by another department. 
I can easily create the Form with the questions in a logical order. Each answer populates a custom field in our task... BUT the order in which the custom fields appear in the individual task, is NOT the same logical order as the Form questions/answers.
Yes, I can pin the custom fields but the sort order of custom fields (answers to Form) is still not in same order as on the Form. 
This results in illogical arrangement of custom fields which is very frustrating and looks unprofessional when presenting to other departments. 
Please let me know if there is a way to fix 🙏:

Nathalia Bueno

I believe that the manual sorting option would be the most appropriate

Patti Wheeler

Hi there, the Bot suggested I add here the request to be able to hide custom fields from the "details" section of tasks. I created a form with custom fields that will only be used in some instances, and those fields are now showing on every single task which is problematic. Please update! Thanks.

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Allow Manual Ordering of Custom Fields in Tasks

Alejandro Valencia

Hello ClickUp team,
I would like to request the ability to manually change the order of custom fields within tasks. Currently, the system maintains a default order, which can disrupt the organization and visibility of important information in our projects. Allowing users to customize the order of these fields would greatly enhance our workflow and project management.
Thank you for considering this request!

December 29, 2025

Alejandro Valencia

We need to be able to manually sort custom fields at the list level (regardless of where the fields originated) from the custom fields manager, so that the order is transferred to the tasks in that list. Please, it's essential, I love this tool, but if we don't have this, I think it'll be a reason to look for another one, given the volume and structure that we use in our projects.

César

A serious downgrade for me. I've been using ClickUp for many years; I stopped using ClickUp for a few months in between jobs, and it was a complete and quite disappointing surprise that we LOST this previously existing feature to reorder CFs (because I reordered fields all the time in ClickUp for a very long time!).

Allowing users to sort alphabetically as an option is great - but DECIDING to do so on our behalf is not! I really hope this gets picked up soon as I'd love to keep recommending ClickUp to new businesses I work with.

Francisco Rezende

César The craziest thing about this is: I have 2 workspaces. In one I can reorder, and in the other I can't.

Marco Rojas

Please include this. This and having multiple task status templates in one list (useful for subtasks to have a different status template than the parent task) are some of the only things holding this back from working perfectly for my company.

Molly Snowberger

What determines the two custom fields that are shown in the Slack app Create  Task form in slack? 
Currently i only have two required custom fields and only one is displaying in the Create Task slack form. If only 2 custom fields are allowed in the slack form, why wouldn't they default to the required fields first? Why is a non-required custom field the one that is displaying over the required custom field? I'd really love to know how to adjust to affect the slack form. 
Would really like ability to configure custom fields and the default fields for that matter in the Slack form. Esp which are optional vs required.

Sara Yen

I'm brand new to CU, still testing to see if we want to use it. Reading through this thread, do I understand correctly that the custom fields in this task, which is a contact card (pic attached), are always going to display alphabetically, and there is no way to re-order them? In what situation does this make sense?

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