Allow automations to target a parent or child task
not on the roadmap
Jeremy Stoller
Actions taken on a task should be able to trigger changes to one or more subtasks of that task. Similarly, actions taken on a subtask should be able to trigger changes on the parent task, or sibling subtasks.
For instance, imagine a task representing an Ad Campaign, with a subtask for the Graphic Design, that has a custom field for tracking the Design Phase. I want an automation that is triggered when the Design Phase field is changed on my Graphic Design task, and then changes the status of the parent Ad Campaign task.
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Viktor Lesyk
For an automation with "Subtask created" trigger and "Add relationship" action, it lets me choose any single (specific) task from the whole ClickUp, but not a relative value - a parent of the subtask that triggers the automation.
I believe that every subtask must have a parent, and can only have one parent (so far). I'm really surprised it is still not possible in ClickUp 🙉
Joey
not on the roadmap
Hey there! Thanks for sharing your feature request with us. We truly appreciate your input!
As part of our efforts to improve our feedback boards, we're closing this older feature request.
Removing old and inactive posts will increase the communication between the ClickUp team and our users, allowing us to hear more of your great ideas!
If you feel this request is worth revisiting, feel free to create a new post!
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Bryan Huang
I've been looking for a way to do this! Would love for this functionality to be available.
Jeremy Stoller
Another use case would be to change the status of a task from To Do -> In Progress when any of its subtasks are set to In Progress. And this should propagate all the way up the line in the case of nested subtasks.
Similarly, when a task is marked Completed, we could change the status of all subtasks to Completed as well.