In an art production workflow, parent tasks often represent entire projects—like creating a YouTube thumbnail, tarot card, or digital painting—while subtasks represent the smaller actions needed to complete each phase. For example, the main task might move through statuses like Ideating → Drafting/Creating → Editing/Refining → Exporting → Uploading → Promoting.

However, the subtasks within each phase usually don’t need that same complex progression. A “Drafting” subtask might just move from To Do → In Progress → Done, while an “Uploading” subtask might be as simple as Pending → Complete.

When both tasks and subtasks are forced to share one status workflow, it creates clutter, confusion, and unnecessary complexity. Artists and creative entrepreneurs need the flexibility to have simplified, phase-specific statuses for subtasks while maintaining a broader creative pipeline for the parent task.

Given that this request has over 4,500 upvotes and has been active since 2018, it’s clear this is not a niche need. It’s a fundamental improvement that would make ClickUp far more intuitive and scalable for creative professionals managing multi-stage production pipelines.

Please, this is critical.

Any update on this request? It is still needed. Thank you!

Please, do this! We need this!

Hey Caroline Ginty and everyone - I was thinking about this and have been tinkering around a little with all this lately and realized... would https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/statuses-by-task-type solve for this? I mean if you created a task type for example "PO" and then a Task Type "PO Line Item" the PO Task could have the statuses "Pending, "On Time", "On Hold", "Late", "Shipped", "Product Received", "Cancelled", and the "PO Line Items" could just have statuses "Included" & "Not Included".

This would be pretty flexible and powerful and might get us what we want faster. Although I think the Free Forever folks would get a little jammed as they only get like what 10 task types or something?

Anyway just an idea I had.

1 year + 5 months since the last update. Anything to say on this?

My use case for this would also be resolved if you enabled features like Time Estimates for checklists.

4.5k Upvotes and 7 years still no progress on this? 😂

Let lists define separate default types and statuses for tasks vs. subtasks — keeps ClickUp cleaner, smarter, and more scalable.