Custom fields by task type
beta
Ivan Villa
Problem:
Custom fields can become messy when you have different types of work (tasks) within the same lists. For example, having a bug, feature, and an epic task all in the same list would cause them all to have the same custom fields, even though I would want specific ones for each type.
Other issues arise when fields that should only belong to the top-level task spread down to all its subtasks.
Ask:
Custom fields should have the option to be added to a custom task type itself.
- Whenever I create a new task of that type, it will come along with all its custom fields.
- Those fields will not spread to any task that is not of that type.
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Raina Ahuja
Hi everyone!
Thank you for all of your continued feedback on the beta so far and helping us shape the experience. If you're interested in joining the beta, please fill out the form here and we'll enable access for you shortly after - https://forms.clickup-stg.com/333/f/ad-3148517/2A0K2U2EQ5QDHYALUK
For those of your interested in custom fields on both locations and task type - we'd love to hear more about your use cases. Please share them in the thread below so we can understand your workflows better. Thank you!
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Nicolas Souza
The Beta stopped working today.
Raina Ahuja
Nicolas Souza: Thanks for reaching out, we're aware of the issue. There's a temporary outage in the service that manages beta feature access and their team is actively working on it. We expect a fix within the next couple of hours, but will keep you all posted here. Apologies for the disruption and appreciate your patience!
James Hogg
Raina Ahuja a big use case for us is having subtasks added with specific custom fields by type rather than the more clunky adding task to another list and joining with a relationship, which feels a bit more disjointed in flow and visibility. A need we for this though is not having list custom fields show on the subtask, just showing the Task Type custom fields. Is this something being considered for this feature?
A thought was having Option on the Task Type to inherit List Custom Fields, and perhaps have this differentiate for Task vs SubTask.
Reed Holland
Loving the feature and really happy that you fixed the issues on the mobile app. My only complaint now is that custom fields assigned to task types show up in the filers even if that field does not exist anywhere in the list. Is this something that is on the roadmap to be fixed?
Raina Ahuja
Reed Holland: So glad to hear it, thanks for the additional feedback! This is known and the team is taking a look!
TaeLynn Perez
I have been beta testing this feature for quite some time now and like it. One item of feedback I'd like to give: I don't need related tasks to be clustered by task type in task view. It looks messy, in my opinion. I would like the option to have all related tasks grouped together in the Related tab regardless of task type.
Raina Ahuja
TaeLynn Perez: Thanks for your feedback! We're exploring some customization options in the near future, so will take this to the team.
Eva Uribe
Hello!
I submitted the form for the beta a week ago.
How and when I will know it is available?
It will apply to all the users in my workspace?
Raina Ahuja
Eva Uribe: Thanks for reaching out! Your workspace was added to the beta on Wed, 4/8 and will be available to all users with sufficient permissions to create/edit custom fields. Feel free to reach out with any feedback as you get started!
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Briana Geoghegan
need this so that we can clean up some of the fields that are not necessary for each task type.
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Pedro Lima
i've submitted the request to be in this beta for quite a while now, how long is it taking for my space to be added this feature?
Raina Ahuja
Pedro Lima: Thanks for reaching out! On my end, I saw your waitlist sign up come in on 3/18 and you should have gotten access on 3/25. Please let me know if you have any feedback as you get started!
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Akiva Retek
Hi, I would like to join the beta. Is it still open for participation?
Raina Ahuja
Akiva Retek: Yes! Please fill out the beta signup here and you should access within the week - https://forms.clickup-stg.com/333/f/ad-3148517/2A0K2U2EQ5QDHYALUK
Michael
oh NOOO..... Not "File" CFs either?!?!?!?! GAH you guys are killin' me!
Raina Ahuja
Michael: Appreciate the feedback! I know this is frustrating. We’re still finalizing whether we can support File custom fields at launch due to some technical constraints. Thanks for calling it out, we’re tracking this and it’s on our radar.
Florian Schardt
Raina Ahuja Just want to support this request. We would also love to the the "File" custom field being able to be linked to the task type.
Use case for us: Custom field "Project application" for uploading the project application. Only required for task type "Project". Currently all tasks are showing this field, because it is linked to the location.
Natalie Williams
Raina Ahuja I just created a new task type and have been able to add formula fields to it. Please tell me that means this is getting rolled out now
Natalie Williams
Raina Ahuja also what kind of timeline are we looking at to restrict task types (and subsequently task-type custom fields) to locations? Having all task-type custom fields showing up in areas where the associated task doesn't apply is making the multi-select toolbar very cumbersome.
Raina Ahuja
Merged in a post:
Task types changed my life
ClickUp Anytest
There's a lot of things in Clickup which are broken, incomplete, slow my work down, break workflows, or are just annoying. At times, it not easy to like Clickup anymore.
BUT, there's this one thing which keeps my hopes high and is a real game changer for me and my team: Custom Task Types! I'm loving them, so useful!
Even if "custom fields" by "task type " would be great. This would make it perfect!
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