Collaborative Editing
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George
ClickUp shows us when someone is editing a description, but it would be nice to be able to edit together.
This would hopefully function in the same way that Google Docs does. Collaborative editing would ensure we never overwrote a colleagues work.
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Scott Foubister
Our team is experiencing some bugs with the collaborative editing feature with ClickUp docs in April 2021.
As other others have mentioned here, we have run into multiple cases where some team members will lose what they just wrote in a ClickUp Doc because other team members were editing other parts of that doc at the same time.
Our hope is that it would work like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper (our current alternative for docs), where we can be 100% confident that our writing won't be lost.
Thanks!
Ivan Villa
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This has been released in the latest version! https://docs.clickup.com/en/articles/3547247-release-2-18
Mike Schropp
Have encountered issues with collaborating editing a number of times with my team and have witnessed numerous times members of my team losing everything they just wrote. Like others have said, we were able to restore the text with the history function, but this has been an ongoing issue. My team is aware enough of the issue at this point that it's become problematic getting staff to write in the description box in group settings due to their awareness of losing text, which creates a ClickUp implemtation challenge in getting users into the platform fully.
As others have already said, we would love it if ClickUp managed collaborative editing just like Google Docs where any number of users can all be simultaneously editing without any fear of losing anything.
Zeb
Mike Schropp: A top priority is improving collaborative editing and we do plan to do this by the end of Summer. However, that certainly shouldn't be happening right now. If you have it happen again, email support immediately and they can look at the logs to see what happened. Mention this post and my name please.
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Jonathon Leeke
We've had descriptions get wiped out on more than one occasion when one person has a task open while another is editing. It's great that the history can help to recapture those edits, but it would be even better if ClickUp could handle this more like other online collaboration tools that allow simultaneous editing.
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Test Bob
Yes, we ran multiple times into a situation when all the information we wrote under the description got lost because more than one person clicked in the description or edits a subtask. They were just clicking in the description or edited a subtask... And all the new info got lost under description ... this is because click up not allowing the collaborative editing. Would be nice to have the collaborative editing that Google Docs, Microsoft Word online version offers..