Due Date is equal to certain Day of the Week
Guy Mannerings
Can you add a condition... If Due Date/Start Date is equal to
[select day of week instead of date]
?E.g., if Due Date is equal to a Thursday.
Reason:
Because there is no way to create DO dates vs DUE dates, it really makes it hard to see a list of tasks simply listed out by day you want to work on them, whilst not breaking other areas of ClickUp. I.e., you could use Due Date to do this, but that breaks other areas of ClickUp that rely on Due Dates as actual DUE dates. Some other areas treat Due Dates as DO dates. Basically, ClickUp can't handle the difference, and things break because of it.
I understand you might say "use a Custom Date field". BUT, I ALSO want to set some tasks simply as "This Week", instead of applying a certain date to them. If you hit "this week" in the calendar selector, it makes it a Sunday, whereas I want to group a view by Day of the Week to work on something PLUS another group titled "this week" for items where it doesn't really matter what day I work on them.
Problem:
The problem is, items that do actually have a Due Date don't necessarily turn up in it in the right place on my system. I have to set them manually. So if there is something happening on Thursday, I have to mark it as "Day to Work on: Thursday" to have it show up where I want it to.
With the baked-in part of ClickUp, this shows in the right place based on Due Date, but I cannot replicate that right now.
I can use Automations "Date is 7 Days Before Due Date -> Set Custom Field "Day to Work on: This Week", but that means that they don't show on the right day if they actually do have a due date this week.
So the only way I could make it work is through Automations if we could choose days of the week as a condition.
I.e. "Date is before/after ... 7 Days Before The Due Date" + Due Date is equal to "Thursday" -> Set Custom Field "Day to Work on" to "Thursday".
That would allow it to add items to my 1 week planner on the fly as they get 1 week away from their due date, and enter them under the correct day of the week.
I hope that makes sense!
This would be fixed if there was forward movement on DO dates vs DUE dates, but I have no idea if there is. But it still might be useful for other reasons for other people!
Would help if we had OR conditions as well, so I did not have to make 7 of these.
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