Automatic start date/due date based on start date, due date, or duration
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Mohammed Khalil
A lot of my tasks I know the start date and how long they will take (for example construction/shipping items). Right now I have to set a start date and then calculate the date the task will finish, instead of saying start on x day and go for 45 days.
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Joshua Bowie
I desperately need this in ClickUp. I've been waiting for some time for a solution. I don't want to transition our company to Smartsheet who has a solution for this but I may have to if it is not going to be available soon. Do you have an estimated date?
Jeremy Stoller
Can we please get a status update on this? The roadmap lists it as coming H1 2024, which ended yesterday. 🤓
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Shari Barnes
Automatic calculation of start & due date based on duration. e.g.
A) Enter Task 1, enter 2 days - autofill start date as today and auto calculate end date based on duration.
B) subtask dates ladde up to main task and calculation on main task then become earliest date entered for subtask 1 and latestest date entered for subtask 5
Smartsheet made this a feature that you need to enable: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/765755-modifying-project-settings#:~:text=The%20start%20and%20end%20dates,and%20selecting%20a%20new%20date.
Jarod McPherson
and also based on other CF Dates.
EX: I want to set my Due Date 'X' Days Before/After my Custom Field "Ship Date". Then be able to automate the Start Date 'X' days before Due Date. It seem like CU is SOOOO close to being able to do so.
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Rod
Please take in consideration that it could be possible to calculate the date by adding days or by deduct days. We potentially want to do something before a due date or a start date.
Zoe Macfarlane
Do we have an ETA on this one as yet? Keen!
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Martin Yara
Looking forward to this, but it wouldn't be very useful if we don't have an option to set non-working days including national holidays, at least manually.
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Bec McFarland
Really looking forward to this one. The areas I'm really struggling with are the date based automations, so eagerly awaiting more updates on when this will be ready! Thanks team!
Mikki ONeal
Hi, Any progress update? Also, if the dates are adjusted, will it cascade down to auto-update the rest of the start/due dates below as it does on MS Project?
Jacob Heldring
Glad to see improvements in this area. Another couple of points to consider while this is being developed.
I work in construction as an engineer and I can tell you the main benefit of MS project on most of our projects from a scheduling perspective is the dependency scheduling, FS, FF, SS, SF and having the ability to add or subtract time based on this dependency (i.e. FS + 2 days). But I think having the ability to add or subtract days or hours in addition to the dependency would be helpful. Perhaps a second dependency field with a time category to show the +/- time unit.
Another feature that could be helpful is fixed end dates for people who like to backwards plan. I saw that the fixed start date and duration inputs can calculate the end date. However, there are many times where we are scheduling our dates based on when things need to be done. Having the ability to fix due dates in addition to fixing start dates while playing with durations would be helpful too. For instance a 5 day task has to finish this day, input the end date and duration to provide the start date. This could maybe be accomplished with a Time Constraint field which means either the start or due date is fixed.
Also pet peeve, I don't like how the predecessor arrows go out then back in like a zig zag for tasks that start the next day. That is very common and slightly misleading. May not be easily fixed though with the circular design and I could live without it, but it is nice seeing a straight arrow in ms project.
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