Subtask status change when parent status changes | Voters

Subtask status change when parent status changes

Laura Mann

I'd would be great if this could be an autmation: If task status changes to XY then change all subtasks status to XY. Even better: 
If taskstatus changes to XY change all subtasks, except closed ones, to XY
Use case: When a task is put on hold, we need to put all subtasks that are not closed on hold as well(as this impacts our ressource management).

February 5, 2021

Amy Foeller

Here's another frustrating example of a fairly reasonable, standard functionality request being ignored by developers for years. I'm getting more and more annoyed with ClickUp the more I work with it. I've only been working with it for a few weeks now. I wanted to love it, but I'm not really loving it. My list of complaints grows...and grows...

Contractor 4B

This seems like a fairly rudimentary update to automations. I don't know why you would build subtasks without, in some way, tethering them to their parent task

Saturnina A. Hilario

It would be great if the automation of this feature in ClickUp could be implemented, as it would greatly help users save time, ensure accuracy, and streamline workflows.

RS Dawn Marie Sarael

It's 2025, and ClickUp still doesn't support an automation that updates the status of subtasks based on their parent task's status. Hopefully, this feature will be added soon.

Greta Obuchaviciute

I also do not understand how in 2 years this still was not implemented...

Joe Tripi

Please please please make this feature!

Mariusz Balon

I fully support this feature request!

As a developer, when pulling data via API, the lack of this functionality creates significant inefficiencies. Without automatic subtask status updates based on parent task status changes, I am forced to retrieve all tasks across every possible status and manually map them to their subtasks. This results in unnecessary resource consumption and slows down the entire data processing pipeline. Implementing this feature would greatly streamline API operations and reduce overhead for many users.

Karel VGH

Still waiting on this!

Sanna McKaig

I would really like the ability to automate some of the detail changes in subtasks. The way we use CU there is always information in the main task that would never be different in sub tasks but will have to be shown in subtasks as we pull them to different views for collaboration. In fact I would like automate new subtask creation so the automation could read the info in the parent and copy it to subtask. I already have certain attributes automated like location, status etc. in creation, but all the text fields with changing information per the parent task has to be entered manually.

Dani

This is insane that we can't run an automation for this?? When a task or subtask goes active all the sub tasks or sub subtasks also need to go active?

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