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Skip Weekends When Scheduling & Rescheduling Tasks

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Tarin Casadonte

Assign a due date based on a number of business days ie be able to click Skip Weekends when automating a due date

September 18, 2020

Bugra Oktay

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Hello everyone and thank you for your patience.
I am happy to tell you that we'll be enabling this feature in May
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I'd also love to get your input on what we should build next, specifically in the project management space. 
If you'd like to share your thoughts, here's a 1-min survey.
Edit:
 Survey now closed; we received plenty of responses - thank you!

Tony Chang

In case the ClickUp team is counting the number of times this is being requested. I face this issue when using the gantt chart to manage my timelines. When I skip weekends, the main problem happens for 1 day tasks. If a one day task that starts and ends on a Friday is moved by one day do due remapping subtasks, then it technically moves to Saturday, but since we have weekends turned off, it shows the task on Monday. But in the task itself, it set the start date to Saturday. Then when you push it later on, it's now a 3 day task starting since the system put the start date as a saturdaya nd a due date of Monday.

Ally Low

This will be a huge change for our business. Not having the ability to skip weekends is a constant headache for our team. Is there a date when this feature is expected to be available?

Bugra Oktay

Hello everyone and thank you for your patience.
I am happy to tell you that we'll be enabling this feature in May
.
--
I'd also love to get your input on what we should build next, specifically in the project management space. 
If you'd like to share your thoughts, here's a 1-min survey.
Edit:
 Survey now closed; we received plenty of responses - thank you!

Heather

Bugra Oktay Yay, thank you. Will there be options to choose to either schedule on the day before the weekend or after the weekend?

Bugra Oktay

Heather - Not in the first version but I'm all ears about needs like this to improve upon it.

Heather

Bugra Oktay I use recurring tasks to keep track of invoicing for clients. Some clients require invoices on a specific day of the month and if that date falls on a weekend, some ask for it on the next business day and others on the last business day before it. At the moment, I manually reschedule everything that falls on a weekend and pray it doesn't mess up the recurrence for the following month. Mostly works out okay but if I could set this rule when setting up the recurrence, that would be incredibly useful.

Francisco Laferriere

Bugra Oktay It almost got into Kinder Garden this idea.

Lu Leite

Heather Bugra Oktay something similar is happening to us, it's a nightmare, and we're constantly getting requests from the team to update due dates manually because of it

Bugra Oktay

Heather Lu Leite - Thank you for the insights; need understood. For now, it will skip to the next working day. I hope that helps make things relatively easier in the meanwhile.

Robert Hudman

Bugra Oktay - another great one to get moving on - thanks!

Felipe Signorelli Reis

Bugra Oktay
Hello. In this update, the following feature will be included:
My case: I have hundreds of recurring tasks. Imagine that I configure a task with a start date on the 15th and an end date on the 18th. This activity has a duration of 4 days. At this point, I face several issues with recurrence. None of my users work on weekends. So, in the Gantt chart settings, I need to uncheck "consider weekends." However, the holiday list is still missing. I'm in Brazil and would like to upload the holidays from my country, and also be able to include specific custom dates. Ideally, each member should be able to customize which days ClickUp should treat as non-working days.
Moreover, continuing with my example, if the 15th of a given month falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a holiday, I need a feature to configure the task to either bring the start date forward or postpone it, while maintaining the 4-day duration. In the example: if the 15th falls on a Saturday, and I configure the task to "bring forward," then the recurrence for that month would be from the 14th to the 17th. Additionally, when this activity is completed, the next recurrence should still follow the original rule of the 15th to the 18th. If I configure the task to postpone, then the dates for that month would be from the 17th to the 20th (still maintaining the 4-day duration, since the 15th and 16th are on a weekend).
In the recurrence settings, under the "completion" option, I always choose "create the task on the calendar" and not based on the completion date.
In summary: the 15th to the 18th are fixed dates for every month, but for each recurrence, there should be an option to automatically bring forward or postpone, while disregarding weekends and holidays. (I’ve seen some improvements regarding holiday table creation are underway in your roadmap. My request should also consider holidays as non-working days.). We always need to "lock" a task to 4 days. 
My complaint is that I have 200 tasks, and every month I need to manually adjust them. I work with tax payments, and there are states where the tax due date is either brought forward or postponed, and I have to reassess every time. I lose a lot of time making these adjustments.
Note: would you prefer that I leave this explanation in this comment, or create a new request? I believe it makes more sense to include it as part of this task.

Emily Anthony

This is a basic function of project management tools. We should be able to set our work week into the system so that when tasks are rescheduled, they follow the days we are actually working. My team was so excited to use the dependency feature to have tasks remapped if/when dates changed. But this feature has been borderline useless to us because it keeps remapping dates on the weekends. My expectation would have been that if a task has a duration of 3 days, and I need to move the start date to Thursday, the end date would be Monday. Instead it keeps choosing Saturday. We're seriously disappointed. This shouldn't be a feature that we and other users have to ASK for. It should have been included from the start.

Cammie Kovalick

Please enable skip weekends and holidays feature so due dates make sense for task tracking. It's difficult to get system buy-in and tout all the automations when the first thing we have to say is fix the dates manually.

Kristin Bradford

Please enable skip weekends AND holidays!

Milan Dado

Hello, this takes forever. Is there any realistic timeframe when the feature can be expected? Thank you.

Michael Rosenberg

Any update here? Amber - ClickUp this feature update will be a HUGE win for all of us.

Emily Fink

Can we please get an update on this? I was told last October that "This update is set for next quarter, which runs from November through January, so you can expect the release sometime within that period."

Jean-Claude Dulac

It would be much simpler to enter the duration of the task, which automatically would compute the end date, including weekends and vacation time and possible dependencies.

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