Work scheduling with timeslots intervals for all day Tasks
Can Bolel
Its a big problem when it comes to schedule a timeslot for a long task like a intervals.
Eg:
We have several task for a project that takes weeks..
- Lets say i want to work on "Design Program" Task 3 times during the next 2 weeks.
- ISSUE is, whenever we check our calendar view, its all days task and not able to assign to a certain slot without changing the whole parent task timing.. ( yes we can create sub task for that but that's ridiculously unproductive for every tasks..)
So, in a weekly task scheduling, we need a "work intervals" for each tasks for we can organise our week, and start to work on that long tasks in "Dedicated Slots" (for the people have dedicated slots for client work, personal work, free time etc...
Especially if you are a business owner, you probably need to categorise your week for certain dedicated slots for each task..( see google calendar) - my green and yellow slots are dedicated client work, and we need to work these big tasks under those slots...
So please, find a solution for our calendar view, task organization + scheduling intervals
THAT WOULD BE GAME CHANGER
Thank you.
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Kim Hoang (BF)
Real-world work happens in layers from multi-day workload planning down to splitting hours within a single day.
Here is a concrete example of how a real workflow requires both:
Scenario: Writing a 6-Hour Technical Report
1. Macro Level: Multi-Day Task Splitting (Timeline/Gantt)
The task takes 6 hours total, but it spans across a week with a gap:
- Monday: 2 hours (Pulling raw data)
- Tuesday & Wednesday: GAP (Waiting for external review)
- Thursday: 4 hours (Writing the final draft)
Why Task Splitting is needed: I cannot schedule this as a continuous Monday–Thursday task without destroying my capacity planning and creating false multi-day banners across the Gantt chart.
2. Micro Level: Intra-Day Time Blocking (Daily Calendar)
On Thursday, I have 4 hours allocated, but I cannot do 4 continuous hours due to meetings and personal schedule.
To solve this, I need to drag or create multiple time blocks directly on the calendar grid that link back to the parent task:
- Thursday Block 1 (Dragged on Calendar): 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (2 hours) > Links to Parent Task
- Thursday Break / Meetings: 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Open slot on calendar)Thursday Block 2 (Dragged on Calendar): 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM (2 hours) > Links to Parent Task
Why Time Blocking is needed: On Thursday, I need to drag those two separate time blocks onto my schedule so colleagues don't book over my focus time-all while keeping them tied directly to the same parent task without forcing me to create bloated subtasks.
Summary
- Task Splitting distributes total effort across separate days (Macro).
- Time Blocking lets us split a day's effort into discrete calendar slots (Micro).
Without both, we are forced to either spam our workspace with endless micro-subtasks or manually manage external calendar blocks outside of ClickUp. Unifying these two concepts would be a massive differentiator!
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Melinda Humphrey
Not being able to do this makes planning in clickup pretty impossible.
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Anthony Weeden
Yes please to this!! I use the Task level for most of my projects (using the newish task type feature) so these tasks, a nd even their subtasks are long (start/due dates far apart) and I need to allocate time slots of even discontiguous day slots for them. Yes they have start and due dates but they need more granularity in scheduling the work to be done.
Can Bolel
Anthony Weeden
Yes yes yes to that!
We are waiting the team to hear us...
Jodie Louise
OMG Yes yes yes to this!!!
That was one of my primary challenge with Clickup to allocate scheculed times for long tasks..
Please consider this ASAP
I know Ricardo Clerigo is working on the Calendar - dont miss this one on the new calendar look please..
Can Bolel
Jodie Louise looking forward to that.. seriously!!!