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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Bugra Oktay
Hello everyone, I very much appreciate your patience.
I am happy to tell you that we'll be
enabling this feature in May
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I'd also love to get your input on what we should build next, specifically in the project management space.
If you'd like to share your thoughts, here's a 1-min survey.
Edit:
Survey now closed; we received plenty of responses - thank you!Cássio Ventura
Hello, how are you?
I'm creating a form in ClickUp for scheduling business meetings and I need users to be able to select not only the date but also the time directly on the form.
I'm currently using the task's native fields:
* Start Date
* Two Dates
Within the task I can set the date and time normally, but in the form the field only allows you to select the date, without a time option.
I would like to understand:
- Are there any settings to enable time selection on forms using native fields?
- Is this a current ClickUp Forms limitation?
- Is there a full support forecast for date+time on the forms?
My goal is to use the form to create tasks already scheduled for business meetings.
Thank you!
JSS Jayant Sanghvi
we have been using CU since 2019 and now i am convinced that none of the people responsible for product specification are project managers. This most basic feature has been activated after years of begging but the duration is specifiable in days also not in hours and not in fractional day also. This is extremely disappointing and hopefully this will be rectified in next few days and not years
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Dan Yee
It is important to me that the closure of the current task can trigger the start of the next task, as some tasks may take an unknown amount of time to finish. It would also be nice that an open task can trigger a flag to a monitor after it is opened for so many days.
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Bugra Oktay
Dan Yee: These are things you might be able to achieve with automations. Currently, date updates on dependent tasks happen only when the blocking task dates change.
Alexis Garcia
hello, your robot told me to upvote this because I would like to be able to automictically set subtasks to be do within a certain number of dates of the parent task. But this says it is complete...is it? if so, how do you use it?
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Bugra Oktay
Alexis Garcia: This request was related to setting durations for tasks and updating dates automatically for dependent tasks. I think you'd need to utilize automations for your needs.
Alexis Garcia
Bugra Oktay Thank you!
I would like to set my subtasks to have an automatic due date based on the due date of the parent task. Is there another board where I can upvote that?
I do already have this all set up using templates, but I find the template center both incredibly unhelpful and unintuitive.
Brandi Norris
Hello!! I see this is marked complete! Can you link the documentation for this feature. Thanks!
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Bugra Oktay
Brandi Norris: Here it is: https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/29571347936791-Use-task-duration-to-schedule-tasks
Allison Settje
When will this feature be enabled for automations? We use forms to create tasks and I would love to create a specific time period for the task to be completed in based on a custom field date from the form. (ie. Trigger: Task is created. Action: Change Due date to X days after a Field from the trigger. This would be helpful for when an employee starts and my team tracks the delivery of their onboarding paperwork)
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Bugra Oktay
Allison Settje: Thank you for the suggestion. We are working on adding this to automations. It should be enabled within the next month.
Silke Turner
Bugra Oktay There are several things we need in the project management space, desperately. They are complete basics to project management. I am scared to add anything else here because it seems like these critical items that we need are still years away, even though some of them are in the 'planned' queue. Reach out directly anytime if you would like more detailed feedback on this.
Adriano Venosa
I’m using the new Duration field feature and have encountered a bug when interacting with it in Gantt View.
When I set a duration for a task without specifying a Start or Due Date, and then click on a date in the Gantt chart to place the task, the duration is automatically changed to 5 days, overriding the value I initially set.
Example Scenario:
• I create a task and set the duration to 10 days.
• Without defining a Start or Due Date, I click on the intended start date in the Gantt chart.
• The system consistently resets the duration to 5 days, ignoring the 10-day value.
Additionally, when planning a task directly in the Gantt chart by clicking and dragging, the task is always created with a 5-day duration, even if a different default duration has been configured. This indicates that the system is not respecting the predefined duration during this type of interaction.
Expected Behavior:
In other project management tools, when a user configures a duration first and then places a task on the Gantt chart, the system uses the defined duration to determine the visual block. Given that ClickUp supports one-click task creation using default values, it would be reasonable to expect the system to honor the predefined duration as part of that flow.
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Diego Barco
I was looking forward to use this for automations like:
When date is 2 weeks before Start Date - Create a task
My problem is that if the creation date is under 2 weeks, those tasks are never created.
It would have been useful to have a trigger like:
When date is at least 2 weeks before Start Date
That automatically triggers if start date - task creation date under 2 weeks
Kim Hoang (BF)
Fantastic, 5 years of waiting for this feature request is finally over, well done!
The last request I am waiting for is this one
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