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Add a Do Date vs the Due Date

Neil Caraos

A Due Date is a final date for a certain project or task, but Do Dates are the times when you actually do the task before the final Due Date.

For example, if I have an appointment for my car insurance agency, I'd like to set a Do Date to retrieve all the documents a few days before the Due Date of the actual appointment.

May 2, 2020

Guy Mannerings

There was another request for this that had many hundreds of upvotes - I think, like, 850. I think it got merged in to this one - https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/time-blocking-1

Guy Mannerings

This is a significant problem in ClickUp. Everything is based on Due Dates, but there are no Do Dates anywhere.

ClickUp mixes the two in to one. Due Dates in ClickUp cover both Do Dates and Due Dates, depending on the View you are looking at.

Take Workload view: It consider Due Dates to be working dates, as that's how it calculates Workload.

Whereas Backlog considers Due Dates to be actually DUE dates.

We need very affirmative DO dates that are different to DUE dates.

We also need to be able to set as many of them as we want.

We need:

Do Date/Time Start -> Do Date/Time End x as many as we want

AND

Start Date/Time -> Due Date/Time.

Ivan Villa

Merged in a post:

Positioning "Start Date," "Do Date," and "Due Date" - WE NEED DO DATE!

Maciej Rydlewicz

Positioning "Start Date," "Do Date," and "Due Date"

In my opinion we need "Do Date" to be able to make an action plan.

It is not Start Date and even worse is using for it Due Date.

Start Date
→ When a task or process officially begins.
Do Date
→ The ideal or recommended date to actively work on the task.

If we have numerous projects/tasks we should be able to mark up these which are qualified as 'Today action' (possibly additional checkbox?)

Due Date
→ The final deadline by which the task must be completed or submitted.

Examples in Context:

Project & Task Management

Start Date:
March 1st
Do Date:
March 25th (recommended work date) or day by day action when my task in in progress, so this date should float
Due Date:
March 31st (final deadline)

Assignments & Exams

Start Date:
Monday
Do Date:
Thursday (best day to complete work)
Due Date:
Friday (hard deadline)

Invoices & Payments

Start Date:
March 10th (invoice issued)
Do Date:
March 20th (recommended payment date)
Due Date:
March 25th (final payment deadline)

Would you like me to refine it further? 😊

March 29, 2025

Maciej Rydlewicz

Positioning "Start Date," "Do Date," and "Due Date"
In my opinion we need "Do Date" to be able to make an action plan.
It is not Start Date and even worse is using for daily action plan Due Date.
Start Date
→ When a project/task or process officially begins.
Do Date
→ The planned date and time to actively work on the task. 
In this data field two time entries would be reccomended for detailed day planning, i.e. 12 march 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Or... AI should recognize if there is another Task planned for the same date at the later time. Both: Clickup or Calendar. This way it could inform that there is a limited time for action started e.g. at 8:00 a.m. due to meeting scheduled at 1:00 p.m. Does it makes sense?
Also, we really need to have filtering and grouping enabled for this data field. 
At the moment we implemented 'Do Date' as a Custom Field, but it is not visible in the basic set of task data. Besides in 'Open My Task' view (upper right shortcut) there is no way to apply it. 
So.... how do you reccommend to set up daily plan? By setting up 'Start date' and 'Due Date'? It is possible now but it does not seem to make sens... ;-)
Due Date
→ The final deadline by which the task must be completed or submitted.

Jade Amber

This would be so great! I want to be able to set a day to complete a task and this could change but the date it must be done by stays as is! Todoist just released something similar, hopefully this makes it onto the planned list

Chandler Willman

Definitely. I want to go to the home and pull tasks into my agenda for the day without editing the due date, essentially to add a scheduled work session where I will work on the task. But the way that clickup automatically edits the due date here just throws off all of my planning.

Ernest

I agree but instead of "do date" which is really close to "due date" it can be called something like "Scheduled". You could then have a subsection in the Home section called "Scheduled for today" and it would list all tasks for that day where the Scheduled date is set (for that day of course)

Odette Toppin

Yassss please! Custom fields are great but I need this DO/Work On date to reflect in my agenda/calendar etc