Different statuses for tasks and subtasks
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Евгений Степанов
exp: I want custom statuses for tasks and, at the same time, simple statuses for subtasks
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Caroline Ginty
Update Nov 2025: This feature is still on our radar, but not on the committed roadmap at this time. We are hoping to get to this soon, and I'll keep this request updated with anything new as we move forward.
Tom Hansell
We often have different types of work occupying the same list. This is usually because of parent/child relationships. The parents, though, are inherently a different type of work from their children. Forcing them all to share the same workflow status options is a huge pain point.
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Ryan Lindsley
It’s crazy it’s been requested for this many years and not completed, or even committed to yet. I don’t want my subtasks sharing the same status options as my parent tasks! I’d use checklists exclusively instead, except those have different limitations and are under-supported too. Sigh…
Caroline Ginty
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Need different statuses for Tasks vs. Subtasks
Daniel Weber
Problem:
Tasks and subtasks need different status options. Subtasks are simple actions that only need "To Do," "In Progress," and "Complete." Main tasks represent entire projects that need multiple statuses to show workflow stages.
Example:
Main task (Video Project): Planning → Production → Editing → Publishing → Complete
Subtasks (Individual work): To Do → In Progress → Complete
Currently, both must use the same status list, making it confusing for teams.
Solution:
Allow different status options for tasks vs subtasks within the same list.
Caroline Ginty
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Different statuses for subtasks
Kaitlyn Fusco
Pretty clear - It would be better to have different statuses for subtasks as they are not always the same as the main task statuses.
Jacob Cantrell
I gotta be honest this one feature would make me a ClickUp user for life. This is the single most frustrating part of this software. As a creative professional, I need a single task to be an overall project and subtasks to be other items like the "video edit" or "photo edit" and those can follow very different flows than an overall project status progression. Not having this feature is making me look for other softwares to use. I really wish this could be implemented. Even just statuses based on task type would be fine. Very very frustrated by the lack of this feature. This seems like a pretty basic fundamental feature to work on instead of giving us loads of new AI features in each release. I don't need a super agent.. I need basic functionality.
Caroline Ginty
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Task Status: Different status options for a parent task vs a subtask
Megan McGeorge
Different task status options for parent tasks versus the subtasks.
For example, a parent task for a customer proposal could have "in progress, submitted" and the subtasks for that could have "task complete". We have people choose an incorrect status option for the type of status it is.
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Briana Geoghegan
Hi - this would be extremely helpful for our process flow. We have complicated statuses to manage change management in Lists but we have more execution based subtasks and it would be way easier to manage if this was possible.
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Victoria
Yes please, this feature would enable a lot. e.g. for CRM just status on parent task is contact health vs for subtasks it is more a task oriented status (to do, in progress, on hold, completed)
Caroline Ginty
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Separate statuses for the main task and their sub-tasks
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Marcin Kroszel
I work in Kanban with my team where we follow a specific development pipeline (statuses): Planned, Assigned, Work in Progress, Blocked, Ready for internal testing etc.
In total there are 8 statuses for the main pipeline.
We use a lot of sub-tasks to complete Tasks. Unfortunately they inherit the statuses from the Main Task which makes them more complex than necessary and therefore unreadable when vieweing the board. For sub-tasks I would like to be able to define a custom states.
In my example that would be very simple: New, Work In Progress, Blocked, Complete
Please implement a possibility to define custom statuses for tasks and sub-tasks separately.
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Ralph Stokes
Caroline Ginty Let's hope you can move it straight onto planned very quickly!
Michael
Caroline Ginty would it be easier to make it different statuses by Task Type since TTs are already built out? Because a lot of times the Tasks and Subtasks are different Task Types. Just a thought.
Yasir Ali
Caroline GintyExteamly important in Large Enterprise.
I am working with Large Org. and this is the primary requirement. Which is currently full filled with dropdown ...which is lame solution
Caroline Ginty
Michael Thanks for the feedback! We are tracking the feature request for different statuses by Task Type here: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/statuses-by-task-type
Michael
Did not know about that one Caroline Ginty upvoted ty
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