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 Nov 2025: Hi everyone - this feature is one we are considering for next quarter's roadmap. It's still in pre-scoping stages, but we will share updates here as they are available. Thanks!

Neil Hogan

God yes! I have tasks all over a large site so have custom location drop-downs.

Quite often i use a status change or other custom column to trigger the creation of a subtask or related task on another list, and the parent task's location needs to go with it!

Alyce Coghlan

Hi Caroline Ginty I'm surprised this isn't being prioritised given competitors had this feature years ago.. We create many, many, subtasks under tasks, then have to select all and manually apply all of the same fields as the parent. It is a huge waste of time.

Lianne Tierney

Yes please!

Tony Henderson

Hi Caroline Ginty, did this get prioritized for Q1? We keep running into problems with the limits, despite upgrading from Business Plus to Enterprise. It makes it very hard for us to be self-sufficient in managing our automations and we have to pull ClickUp Support/CSM into providing analysis reports to figure our where the issues are. It would be far more efficient for both us and ClickUp teams to have the data we need to action.

Julie Babin

Caroline Ginty Can we have an update on this feature, please ? We need this to be more efficient !

Caroline Ginty

Julie Babin We are planning to build this feature, but haven't yet slotted it firmly into the roadmap or started the scoping and build process. I'll keep this post updated though as we get into the details and will share walk-throughs, mockups, etc as we have them available!

Clemence Wiart

I'm stoked to see that Clickup is looking to implement this in their next quarter roadmap! For everyone else who needs this, in the meantime, I have made it work with Make.com. I can now carry over specific custom fields from the parent task to any newly created subtask. It has been pretty smooth overall. Difficult to implement but now works.

I hope CU gets this going so I can stop using third parties though..

Nicole Blaser

Yup, we need this badly, thx

Alix Lepinay

I want this so much !

Bugra Oktay

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Koos Vis

Bugra Oktay great and thank you

Rob Kamphuis

Bugra Oktay You ripper!!

Guy Mannerings

Bugra Oktay Please make this optional. I definitely do NOT want custom fields automatically being applied to all subtasks. It should be asked as a question when you make a subtask, or set as a user setting.

Brynn Link

it would be great if tags were included in this - eg: subtask inherits the tags of the parent.

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