Statuses by task type
Ivan Villa
Problem:
Often within a single list, we have different types of tasks: some represent projects, designs, and smaller action items. Each one should go through their own set of statuses, but this is currently not possible.
We are forced to either use dropdown custom fields as a workaround or create large status sets to try and encompass everything, leading to confusion among people.
Ask:
- Give the ability for statuses to be set by type.
- This will allow each task type to have its own status workflow.
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Ivan Villa
Updated Dec 2025:
Aaron Zielinsky No dates yet for this one. We are taking these task-type improvements incrementally, and currently, we are working through custom fields by task type. So once we can get that one out of beta and available for all, then we can pick up another one in the queue :)
Nicole Dupont
Hey Ivan Villa! Any updates here?
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Julis Pándi
Chiming in to ask if there are news about this, Custom Fields by task type was such a game changer - is this on the roadmap somewhere?
David J Geiger
Hey Ivan Villa, the pinned comment says that once custom fields by task type gets out of beta, other task type improvements can be worked on. Does the team know which task type feature it's planning to focus on next?
I know it's been about about a day since custom fields by task type was marked as completed (and that's been such a great feature my team has used a ton during its beta!), so it may be too early to ask that, but I'd love to know what you guys are planning next with task types!
Jackson James
Ivan Villa any update on this? This would help any sales teams that use ClickUp. Often, when managing a sales process, the sales team is dealing with a "Lead", "Products", and "Sales SOP Tasks" within the same list.
This would make sales workflows far more manageable for small businesses
Eric Smith
Man, this would be a game-changer for our operation.
LeeAnn "Chilli" Childers
Also hoping for this. I run into issues with projects where I have to create sub-tasks for procurement: quote, order, receive, schedule, install, etc. These don't align directly with our standard overall project statuses; new, in progress, 3rd party pending, on hold/stuck, etc., so it would be nice to be able to assign these directly at the sub-task item type or by manually overriding status type. I'm sure there are 100 ways to slice that pie.
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Erica Minniti
I might even argue that being able to set statuses by task type is even more important for my company's project management than custom fields per task type. There is a possibility for a work around using the custom fields but I'd hate to configure that across all our spaces when statuses-by-task-type would accomplish this so much better and more easily.
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Nicole Salow
We really need this feature! Custom task types and custom fields by task type have been such a HUGE improvement for our workflow, and adding the statuses by task type would be another huge improvement - our projects contain many types of tasks, and we need more status options that won't apply to everything, convoluting them!
Vitor Soller
Hello everyone!
We are already testing custom fields by task type, and it’s working great so far!
I hope statuses by task type get prioritized soon as well, since this feature is really important for project management workflows.
Great work, team!
Mackenzie Hunt
This really would be incredibly helpful for our company. I would love to see this one prioritized.
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