YALL - USE CASE SOLUTION I JUST DISCOVERED!!!

If you need to apply a template to an existing list to copy over view configuration such as custom field order (my specific use case) - do this:

Still needs to be repeated for multiple views, BUT at least you don't need to show and order custom fields manually.

This is an imperative feature. I have 100's of lists. When I create a new configuration or system, I need to update ALL the lists to show certain views etc. Doing this manually is brutal. Not sure how this was overlooked this long.

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Here is another user who joins this request. For me, and for the customers to whom I am implementing ClickUp as their business operating system, it is essential to have this functionality.

What my clients are looking for is real automation, and it's a pain to have to do this process manually. I realized a few days ago that there is no automation to trigger a list creation template, and this is key: most of my clients are agencies and design studios that work with cascades of tasks, not with subtasks.

I hope you can evaluate it soon, because it would be a huge step forward. 🙌

Curious that there has been such demand for this but very little movement. I wonder if it would require a larger overhaul of their system in some way because at first glance it seems like a lower effort/ high yield (user satisfaction) update. I just recently had to apply my template change to 50 lists manually. I was not a happy camper. I fear for scale within a larger team environment without this ability. Would greatly appreciate it if the team could bump this up on the roadmap. So many new features have been added that are great, backfilling this usability would be a huge help. Surprisingly it comes up often.

I'm evaluating ClickUp as a height.app replacement. Tracking deliverables is critical to our work. If another product can do this better, you're likely to lose the sale. Which is a shame, because I rather like ClickUp. Per the other user's comments, your customers have been begging, begging! for 5 years for this simple productivity enhancement. I've had some good experience with the ClickUp sales team. But if this is how they do business, ignoring their customers, I don't know that I want my business here. We do not have a PM here, so it's engineers doing their own PM work. This tool should make my life easier, not become another chore.

That is not a feature, it should be an absolute standard.

The fact that this lame version was actually released is all you need to know about the quality of CU's software dev. practices, not to mention their disrespect for their customers. The is actually practically no point at all to using templates. I keep running into issues like these that make me say, "How could these guys release such crappy code??" Jordan Reeve is right. Other PMs do this. After five years, it's time to look.

Yes this is a major feature that is needed to save time during onboarding and build out making the product more easily implemented and adaptable.