Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks (copy field values from parent to subtask) | Voters

Let subtasks inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks (copy field values from parent to subtask)

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November 21, 2019

Caroline Ginty

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Update May 2026: Hi everyone - this feature is still on the backlog, but we will share updates here as they are available. Thanks!

Michael Ricardo

Hi! Any update on this?

In case it's helpful, i wrote out my org's use case:

Our org gives around 10 classes per week.

Each class has a duration of 10 weeks.

Parent task = 1 Class: for Example "English 1"
Subtask = 10 Sessions. (1 session for each week)

We've created dashboards to show us "today's sessions", this give us a task list of subtasks with a start day of today.

Here's where we can use the "inherit standard/custom fields of parent tasks.
each class has specific links, a student registration count, and several other descriptive fields that we have to manually copy every time we create a new parent task (which happens around 20 times a month)
If this feature existed, we would save a lot of manual work to copy over fields
and our dashboards will be a lot more useful!

Jenni Skarsten

It would be great if custom relationships could be included in this so that a viewer of the subtask doesn't have to follow the breadcrumbs to the parent task to be made aware that it is related to something else.

Joseph Plaizier

This would be incredibly helpful. We have several use cases for this. One that comes up a lot is our projects are large and get assigned to multiple people, each with different roles. We have custom people fields for these different roles so we can keep track of what responsibilities people have on the project. We assign these at the top level task and then create subtasks under it of what needs to get done. Many of these sub tasks have automations that run that include these custom people fields. We currently have to manually update the custom fields on all subtasks. I'm looking into automating this as much as possible with an API, but it would be much more convenient if it was a part of ClickUp already.

Amanda Hurley

Please add this feature! Looks like enough people have wanted it for long enough, get it out of the backlog and in the works.. please!!!

Tim Jasper

Can we also have Permissions - Allow subtasks to have different permissions than their parent task

Ole-Henrik Fjeld

I couldn't agree more. Allthough I understand the need for custom fields to be fresh for a subtask, most of the time I'm frustrated by the oposite. Who was the customer again? Up to the main task to look - even though the field "Customer name" is right there, but blank... So a simple "inherit from parent" would do the trick - and save loads of AI-usage...

Amber Jones

This is a very logical and practical feature that other PM tools have. Strange that Clickup hasn't enabled this.

Tamika Adams

This seems like a very logical feature. The field filler agent uses up too much AI credits to fill in fields on subtasks when the system should just allow the inheritance from the parent task.

Daniel Bobel

That's pretty embarrassing. It's like selling a car without a steering wheel. It's a basic feature. Your customers have been asking for this feature since 2019. Just close the case so it doesn't get too awkward.

Juan Velasquez

This is by far the most important feature to implement. It would be a huge time-saver!

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