Limit rescheduling dependencies to business days.
Wes Brummette
For example, if task A is due Oct 11 and subtask B is due Oct 5 - and I change task A to be due on Oct 9 and I want the subtask to update accordingly to be Task A - 6 days, but only business days, is that possible?
Log In
J
Jennifer Condon
Agree! I'm leaving the same comment on all similar requests to get this bumped up to production!
I just submitted the same request yesterday. This isn't the same feature that you have available, as there isn't an option to select a business day based on "date."
Original reply to this post: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/weekday-recurring-tasks
Support added my feature request on 8/10/2023 and linked me to this one to vote: https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/relative-dates-in-recurring-tasks
My notes:
Example using the 2nd workday (or business day) of the month:
• Every 2nd workday, we want a task to recur.
• This is the 2nd actual business day of the month (NOT the 2nd of the month (date) or a day option).
o For July 2023, the 2nd business day would be 7/4/2023 (because the 1st and 2nd are Saturday and Sunday, then the 3rd is a Monday, which would be the 1st business day).
o For August 2023, the 2nd business day would be 8/2/2023.
o For September 2023, the 2nd business day would be 9/4/2023 (because the 2nd and 3rd are Saturday and Sunday, then the 4th is a Monday, which would be the 2nd business day).
Please see my screenshot below for a calendar example of workdays/business days of the month.
S
Sid Tewari
open
Hey, everyone! Thank you for following along on this post and providing your feedback!
To keep everyone informed, we've updated the status of this Canny post to reflect current product initiatives.
We are prioritizing enhancements that will encompass the most usability amongst all our users.
This is request is still very much on our radar and the ClickUp team will keep this post up to date as there are changes regarding this feature in the future!
Szabina Kasa
Approaching the four year mark for this feature request, I'm wondering if there's any updates on this? Seems like a feature that really should have been tied in with Gantt charts and dependencies earlier on, as a main way in our company to reschedule or push back dates is by moving tasks and their dependencies from the Gantt view. As everyone else mentioned, having to fiddle around with the tasks in order to schedule them on a weekday rather than landing on a weekend is a pretty frustrating timesink.
David Robertson
Any updates on when this will be added? Looks like it has been on the roadmap for almost four years now. I am very surprised that thread has not had more activity as this is really fundamental in project planning.
Deborah Karlsen
If you are going to have dependencies, limiting rescheduled dependencies to business days is a must have feature. I agree with some of the other people, I am very surprised this AND your linking of dependencies feature have not been fixed. If I adjust a date in one of my projects, all the dependent dates are subsequently rescheduled. Wonderful, or not, because many of the new dates fall on weekends or span weekends. This means I have to manually reschedule all dependent tasks. We are using waterfall project management for our hardware design and production and also customer deliveries. These features are MUSTS for companies like ours. I like ClickUp, but you will unfortunately lose us as a customer if these things don´t get fixed.
T
Tom Proudman
Deborah Karlsen: Hi Deborah. We also follow a waterfall approach for delivering our projects. We produce written documents for the web. Each document is developed to a standard process, which can vary depending on the type of product. Each process dictates the rules for scheduling tasks in relation to other tasks, for example: we typically have a key date e.g. a committee meeting, that falls roughly in the middle of the project timeline, and once that date is scheduled we want all other tasks and milestones to be automatically scheduled based on rules that we set e.g. task A should be scheduled to be 20 working days before the committee meeting date. Should the committee meeting date have to be changed then the whole timeline would reschedule automatically. Where necessary, we would also want to be able to override the rules to avoid tasks/milestones being automatically rescheduled. As per this thread, we would want to be able to specify which days (in addition to weekends) are ignored as non-working days. I'm just interested to know if you have the above use case for your projects? Thanks. Tom.
Deborah Karlsen
Tom Proudman: Hi Tom, good input on your post, we would desire similar features to those you have described. Our process is similar but not nearly as standardized. We build novel hardware and run tests for customers in remote winter conditions so we constantly experience delays. We have a set process that must be followed but the dates change constantly, which causes us problems. For our use case, rescheduling needs to happen with ease. For our hardware development, I agree with you, having a way to override rescheduling of milestones would be a great feature.
T
Tom Proudman
Deborah Karlsen: Hi Deborah - our timelines are also subject to regular change and therefore being able to reschedule easily is very important. Typically there will be a key date that has to change due to external factors that we can't control, and then all other dates leading up to and following that date in the timeline need to be rescheduled accordingly. I'd welcome a more detailed conversation on this use case. If you would like to discuss further please contact me and we can arrange a call: tom.proudman@nice.org.uk
Matt Tungate
Zeb Zach Quinton Ayers This has been on here since 2018. This is an almost-universal feature in project management platforms. Even Google sheets can count by work days.
I know these are features requests, and those are back-burnered for now, but maybe some temps or interns could go through these 12,251 requests and triage them and update the communication on them.
I'd love to see an update on this one. After almost 3 years, I would hope there is some movement on it or a decision you can't figure out how to do it.
Zeb
Matt Tungate: Thanks for the feedback! This is currently planned to be added with some new features that will start as soon as we move away from working on speed and performance.
I definitely hear you on updating our Canny boards. We have team members working to clean it up and make it much more useful for you and for us.
Matt Tungate
Zeb: It's been in the works since 2019. I look forward to seeing it very soon.
Ted Webb
Zeb checking in on the status of this planned feature.
This would be a huge help as our projects are based on a Day Zero day that can move based on our clients needs and scheduling. This results in an entire projects worth of tasks that take advantage of the "reschedule dependancies" functionality. As such, it would be great if it would automatically account for the days that are people are actually working (M-F). But I could also see someone wanting this customized so that they could set their working days (say M-Th if their team doesn't work Fridays).
Right now we have to manually move any tasks that fall on weekends once we reset the project dates, and it's quite a bit time consuming. This feature would greatly improve my teams efficiency every week.
Zeb
Ted Webb: It's in our radar, does Gantt view work for this when you have weekends hidden?
Ted Webb
Zeb: Zeb, Gantt view is where we have tried this, and what the system does is it just shows shortened tasks when the weekends are closed, and as you move the tasks they show right back up the following week days. So it's moving the tasks, we just can't see them because they are hidden along with the weekends.
Zeb
Ted Webb: Got it, Ivan Villa you on this one?
Ivan Villa
Ted Webb Hey Ted! I'm taking a look at this one :)
I was just playing with it in gantt and see how it gets weird, even with weekends hidden its counting them in the duration.
we will chat with development to see if we can get an update in where it ignores weekends in Gantt, but this will be per team level.
Doing it per person is a bit more complicated to knock out but it would be something we can look at down the road as we improve our resource management features :)
Ted Webb
Zeb Ivan Villa: I wanted to follow up here since it has been almost 5 months since your last update.
Right now our team is having to manually adjust dates for all of our projects to account for weekends. Our actual start date for the whole project is not the same as when it is created from templates, so the template "ignore weekends" feature doesn't help us here.
Having the ability to ignore weekends when rescheduling dependencies would literally save us hours of work per week.
Waleed Elaghil
Hey Ted Webb! Both those things should be possible, you just have to save the template and use the skip weekend features and when you apply it, only weekends will be applied.
As for rescheduling in Gantt view, as long as the hide and skip weekends are toggled off, you'll be able to move them around and not have weekends applied.
I would also recommend reaching out to help@clickup.com in case you need further assistance for this 🙂
Ted Webb
Waleed Elaghil: Thank you for your reply - while these things are "possible" to do, they still require a ton of manual work as ClickUp messes and adjusts durations on tasks to accomplish this.
A couple of things I noticed:
- When skipping weekends as you suggestion at template creation, ClickUp literally just pushes tasks out to the next business day. When I tested this, ClickUp was still changing the duration on tasks. I had some tasks scheduled to take place over 2 days, but when creating the list from a template, those tasks were reduced to one day when the skip weekends toggle was on.
- When using the hide and skip weekends feature in Gantt view, the tasks have to be manually moved off of a weekend before you click that toggle. If you turn that one before moving anything, ClickUp will reduce the duration of tasks that happen on a weekend. Say you have a 2 day duration task taking place on Sat & Sun and you click "hide and skip weekends" that task now has no duration. If you try moving tasks with "reschedule dependencies" active in Gantt view while that task is still "hidden" it will maintain its 0 day duration that it was reduced to because of the hide and skip toggle. Which is antithetical to the whole reason to use this feature it seems.
I will reach out to the help@clickup.com email to see if there is a better way of doing this than what you have laid out here, because at this time we will still be manually adjusting all of our tasks.
Justin Mosebach
Zeb Any update on when this might be moved from "Planned" to "In Progress"? :)
Richard Jones
i ditto this...but it appears to be difficult to implement as this planned back in Sept 18
Zeb
planned
Load More
→