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).
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Izabel Izzo
Should be standard out of the box functionality. When you have a task change status to cancelled as example... all the associated subtasks should be moved to cancelled. At minimum there should be a way within automation to set this up. Standard stuff!
Santi Porta
Zeb do it please!
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Contractor 4B
Update on this please?
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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...
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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