Custom Fields for List, Folder, or Space
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Lydia Hesterman
We organize our clients by folder (i.e. client a), and then client projects as lists (i.e. client a's website). There is no way to group or sort by a list unless you use the default status grouping, but that forces you into lots of other viewing features that I don't want. I'd just love to see everything overdue, sorted by folder or list.
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Caroline Ginty
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Metadata in folder and lists
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ignacio morales
I mean metadata in folder like numers or text that are unique and in folder levels for example some category in folders to use it in dashboards later.
The same idea for the lists.
Caroline Ginty
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Custom fields at folder level
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Lyn Casson
None of the folder views provide us with a satisfactory overview of all our lists. We can't add custom fields (only at task level) and we can't filter or sort the lists easily in the overview, gantt view, list view or board view. It means we don't have an at-a-glance view of all the projects currently in play (at least not in any logical order or with the basic details we require). I would have thought would be a fundamental element of a project management tool.
Caroline Ginty
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Folder Tags
Erl
Would be nice to be able to tag, or categorize, the actual folder itself. Especially useful if you are using folders for projects, and want to see all the projects of a particular type (across different spaces). e.g. "Show me all the active marketing projects across all divisions".
Caroline Ginty
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Meta information for Folder and Lists
Willi Eggeling
Right now you can't attach any meta information on Folders, and only unstructured ones (a description) on Lists.
I'd like to have typed information (just like custom columns) on my Folders and Lists. This especially comes in handy for automation and reporting.
If a project is a list, and each project may have a different daily rate. How do I calculate my earnings? How do I prove customer information to a folder (cost center id, customer number, ...) that is needed for automation?
This will really help - especially to integrate ClickUp with other tools like a CRM.
Caroline Ginty
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Input data at Folder/List level
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Fernando Kalil
I use Folders and Lists as projects. It would be great to add custom fields at the Folder/List/Space levels, instead of having to repeat across the tasks
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Louis Halton Davies
100% - this would be huge
Tharsan Rajasingam
Is limiting custom fields to folder, list or space level possible? Please let me know the status. That's a limitation my team faces.
Sigurd Seteklev
Tharsan Rajasingam: Are you thinking about Custom Fields for Tasks but limited to folder, list or space? Would love to understand your use-case a bit deeper :)
Caroline Ginty
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Space Level Customised Fields
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Elisa Young
I would love somewhere to store information for specific projects (which for me are set up as a space for each project), where I can list names of important contacts, study title, and other company-specific information used for each of our projects. It's wasted to add as a custom field at a task level, as it is just needed once, linked to the task. We are currently using the list descriptions, which is not optimal.
Caroline Ginty
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Custom Fields at the Space / Folder / List Level
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Matt Nath
Feature Request: Custom Fields at the Space / Folder Level
It would be extremely useful to have custom fields attached directly to a Space or Folder, not just to tasks.
This would allow teams to store contextual or reference information about that Space or Folder, such as:
- client-specific details
- ownership or escalation contacts
- SLA expectations
- billing or retainer notes
- automation rules or special handling notes
- any other metadata that applies to everything inside that container
Currently, this type of information has to live in Docs, task descriptions, or naming conventions, which makes it harder to reference quickly and limits how it can be used in automations.
Why this matters:
- keeps important context out of individual tasks
- reduces duplication of information across tasks
- improves onboarding and handoffs
- enables more powerful automations (for example, when a task is added to a list within a Space or Folder that has a specific value, trigger a defined action)
Having first-class custom fields at the Space or Folder level would significantly improve organization, clarity, and automation for teams managing multiple clients or complex workflows.
Nastya Walton
We need this feature so badly. We organize our films data base by Lists (each List is a Film) to be able to sort and visualize them it would be great to have ability to add more CF (e.g. tags, logline, project status)
Sigurd Seteklev
Nastya Walton: Thank you for sharing your use-case, Nastya! I think we have a lot of things in progress that will be useful to you.
Where do you typically get an overview over all our films? Is this a Portfolio card on a dashboard?
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