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Different statuses for tasks and subtasks

Евгений Степанов

exp: I want custom statuses for tasks and, at the same time, simple statuses for subtasks

March 28, 2018

Caroline Ginty

Pinned

Hi everyone! As we're exploring separate statuses for subtasks, we're looking for your input on what's important. Please take this 2-minute survey to share your thoughts.

Lily Chan

Merged in a post:

Subtasks could have different status based on type of tasks

Achilles Georgiu

I am using one space for managing the Sales pipeline of our company. I have created a new task type for Deals. Deals are moving forward with different statuses (new deal, proposal, ...etc) but in each deal I need to assign subtasks for the team. Subtasks have a different type and they should go through different steps (like assigned, under progress, done...) as in a real life scenario. At this moment even if I use different type of tasks for subtask they can only follow the same statuses and can only have the same custom fields as the main task being used on the parent level.

June 20, 2025

Ralph Stokes

Bump. A lot of things going on right now but this one isn't even planned! Any chance it might happen? It's one of the top requests on here....

Ralph Stokes

Also, it dates back 7 years. Seven!

Yes, seven whole years....plus a couple of months at this point...

Denys Moskalyk

please follow this improvement too! https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/workflow-customization-status-transition-restrictions

Janessa Christine

Anyone notice employees at Clickup don't update these anymore?

Lester Szurko

Any decisions or progress on this yet?

At minimum give us an option to bypass parent statuses and just click done without having to open the task or menu. Checklist doesn't work as I need the subtasks to be added in another list.

Rob Alan

Hey, ClickUp, could you put the AI stuff on hold for a sec and revisit aging requests like this one, please?

Jeff Baird

To add context, a user might use a list to track a workflow of projects, but within a project, subtasks might have a simpler workflow. At the list/parent task level, you might have one set of statues that track the parent task's way through the workflow. But subtasks might be more like to-do items within the parent task and might have simpler needs like to-do, in progress, on hold, and done. Right now, either one or the sets of statuses doesn't make sense, or we have to compromise with a set of statuses that doesn't perfectly work for either parent or sub tasks.

Nicole Salow

Is there any update on this? The last update was that they were exploring it over a year ago.

Tim Jasper

I would recommend using custom fields for statuses.. I use one simple clickup status for all tasks ie todo/ done (some use todo/in progress/done). However I use multiple custom fields to achieve the granularity required to manage projects/tasks/subtasks in progress. I think stock clickup statuses are a nightmare and best avoided. I learnt this early and don't use them ouside of todo/done. I would encourage Clickup to scrap statuses completely and migrate them to custom fields. Then users get to choose whatever statuses they want for each item (eg Folder, Subfolder, List, task, subtask). Also there is much more control over custom field permissions. However Clickup definitely need to review the platform's permission structure. eg subtask permissions

Patrycjusz Rodzyński

Hi. Is there any progress with this functionality? Without it, we have quite a mess of statuses.

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