Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks | Voters

Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks

under review

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November 21, 2019

Caroline Ginty

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Hi everyone - thank you for all the engagement and votes on this feature request! This is something we are actively thinking about and considering for later this year, in conjunction with the related feature request to allow rolling up Custom Field values from subtasks to parent tasks, which would be the inverse (https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/rollup-custom-field-values-from-subtasks-to-parent-task).

I will update here with more details as we get further into scoping what this would look like!

James M. Grosser

It's hard to understand why this feature is only "under review." This is such a basic feature, you have to wonder how anyone could have designed an app with subtasks that doesn't include this feature. I feel like much of the time Clickup saves me is lost filling out fields in subtasks. I am using task types combined with automations to fill in some fields, but this doesn't work for all fields and automations sometimes don't run or run too slowly. Also - there is no "fill down" feature when using a task table. Smartsheet has this.

I'm wondering anyone has any workarounds while we wait for Clickup to finish "reviewing" this request.

Graham Thompson

Definitely need, seems a no-brainer option

Abby Dong

We have several revenue-assisting workflows that would significantly reduce manual time if we had this feature. Additionally, I’d like to highlight the use case of having multiple layers of subtasks and the ability to choose between inheriting field values from the top-level parent, the immediate parent, or any intermediate parent.

Khris Serrano

Hi Caroline Ginty this is very cool to see - is it on the roadmap? Would like to monitor and use as soon as it lands.

Khubaib Ahmed

Wonder why this very straightforward yet super critical feature is so much delayed - it's been 5 years ClickUp...

Allan Lefebvre

Upvote!

Ron Martel

So badly needed, this has been requested for 5 years now. What's the holdup? Almost 4k requests. Please get this going.

Ronei Marques Martins Junior

Please release this. It's a very important feature. It should at least be possible through automation. Could be merged to https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/automations-when-something-happens-on-a-subtask-ie-status-closed-then-do-somethi

Georgia King

To be clear, I'm assuming this means the following:
Custom fields would have a checkbox setting that says "Subtasks inherit values from parents." When checked, the custom field would auto-populate on subtasks, with the value from the parent task's same custom field. 
Example: I have a "contract" task type, and subtasks under it are "invoice" task types. I want to put an "hourly rate" custom field, and when I populate it on the contract level, I want the invoices to all inherit that value.

Szabo Laszlo

We're new to ClickUP and have found this missing feature very annoying. I see it's under review, how can it be added to the dev roadmap?

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