Toggle features by task type
Ivan Villa
Problem:
We handle various tasks in ClickUp, and sometimes there are unnecessary features for certain types. For instance, when tracking clients, a due date is not required. Similarly, for a list of records, a status workflow is unnecessary.
Ask:
- Give the ability to disable certain features/ClickApps by task types.
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Matthew Burt
This would be amazing. The less clutter and confusion the better my team can function. Trying to train multiple people on all the items to ignore is painful and can cause real problems if data is entered in a wrong way or time is wasted on meaningless fields or time wasted trying to find the important ones.
Jeremy Stoller
Related to this, there should not be any privileged task types with unique properties that can't be added to custom task types. I'm mostly thinking of the built-in Milestone task type. I have different types of milestones for which I would like to create different task types, but there's no way for me to designate my task types as milestones.
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Amanda Hyer
I'd love to be able to turn off adding files or comments. For example, if we want to factor a "client approval", where the client isn't an approver in ClickUp, it would be great to still assign a timeframe, but not allow people to upload files there to avoid confusion. Basically any kind of "task type" that would be more for timeline planning purposes than file collaboration purposes.
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Andrew Tomassetti
These types of features are great to provide relevancy. If something isn't relevant to a task type, not showing it ensures there is no waste and confusion. We have a list that is solely "contacts" so we can create relationships to tasks for "approvers", "reviewers" etc etc. These contacts are not in clickup, but we need to know the stakeholders involved and their contact information so our team can follow up. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, you have things like status's/due dates/tons of custom fields/time stimates that don't pertain to this type of "task". Would love the ability to toggle off anything that isn't relevant.
Perry Wirth
I love the idea of being able to turn on some "forced" fields like Due Date - essentially turning ClickUp to a lean database/spreadsheet. For me though the question is if this is done by Task Type, or by the List, etc - or even maybe forcing lists to use certain task types. I'm sure there is a lot to think about here!
Jose Alberto Una Garcia
Absolutely aligned with it
pixojoy
Toggling features in general would be great
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Alberto Alonso
Completely agree. Depending on the item type the required features are not the same. This would also allow you to add features to ClickUp for different types of usecases (documents, requirements, clients, etc.).
Wahid T. Yahya
Absolutely. Some of the records I keep in Clickup are not task and don't want see as tasks. I want to see the as reference. So their status is different in nature from tasks.