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!

EASE Co-op

Can this be moved up the priority list, ClickUp team? This is another standard feature in other project management tools that I would expect from ClickUp.

Veronica Brock

This would have a huge impact for our team. We need to view data across several custom fields. Most of those custom fields are set at the task level and we have had to build custom automations outside of ClickUp to set the values for subtasks via API. Even then, there are ways for individual subtasks to end up with incorrect or incomplete data in those fields. We would love to use more native ClickUp dashboards and visualizations for our data but we can't do that until we are able to set these values at the task level and trust that every subtask will inherit the proper values!

Kate Archdeacon

This would be a gamechanger for me - it's hard to consistently take advantage of the complexity offered by ClickUp when the task of assigning the complexity is manual. Please do make it a priority? As a solo PM, I'd preference this over further AI functions in the program.

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.

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