This is insane that this doesn't exist I thought it was a bug I submitted a bug report and they said this is a feature request this is like setting an oven alarm that's built into your oven for 15 minutes and then the oven rings one hour later you contact the oven company and they say, yeah submit a feature request lol you can put whatever time you like in the estimate field, just nothing will happen...its a "vanity field" lol

This should definitely be a part of clickup! Having time estimates without adding them to the calendar is insane to me. At this point it is easier to do some tasks/schedules on paper since i have to do them all manually anyway with clickup.

I should be able to put in a due date (say friday at 5), and a time estimate (say 1 hour), and the calendar knows to put the start time as 4pm on friday.

Now, i know it could get very complicated without clickup using a work schedule/availability check for something slightly more complex like due friday with a work estimate of 16 hours so you start it wednesday at start time instead of 8am thursday, but the basics of due-estimate=start should be something that should at least be an option.

I imagine toggles would help with this as native automations, embedded directly into the date picker. Made some mockup examples with hovering tooltips for the following toggles:

Toggling on and rescheduling the initial task updates the duration of days and/or times for future recurrences.

Toggling off lets you reschedule the initial task's duration and/or time slots independent of future recurrences, as it currently functions now.

I can't understand how they have a functionality to estimate task dates, but then it has no use. As a reference it is good, but the idea is to be able to calculate the start and end dates in an automated way, otherwise the work done is double and makes no sense. Please consider this functionality as something that is useful to the estimation field.

This is a really great example of how this can be set up in excel and it would be great to have this kind of functionality in ClickUp:

We really need this as my team would like to avoid having to manually schedule all the tasks... and if any tasks change in length ... we don't want to reschedule everything manually either.

Having a task that has a start date and a time estimate should be enough to schedule it's end date. AND if there are tasks, dependant on that task... they too can be schedule as long as they have a time estimate (their start date would become the end date+1 day of the first task)

It's worth noting that I think my team will likely move to using another platform soon if this feature isn't available. It's crucial for tracking our timelines without having to do lots of manual adjustment

really ClickUp..Microsoft Excel spreadsheet has a template for this.. This is a massive let down. I thought the point was to make it so I had to do less busy work entering data.. now I have to spend hours at my desk every time I make a new list? Its time to get with the times. I was super excited to host a demo once I got my template built with our peer group of 28 different companies and 88 different locations across the US.. with this amount of "busy work" it would be a very hard sell and a waste of time to other project managers.

Hey Clickup, this is a massive shortcoming. Any work or project management tool should have the ability to automatically schedule project tasks if the tasks have durations and dependencies. Having to manually schedule a project based on start and end dates is extremely antiquated.

I also want this. My use case is that I know how long my tasks (should) take, but I often have to move things around because life happens all the time. When I go to reschedule them using the date field or drop them on the calendar in calendar view, the estimate is ignored and I have to manually set an end date / time. Considering the natural language input on the due / start dates & times is pretty horrible (seriously, typing "12:45p" should set the date to today at 12:45p, not today with an end time that is pulled out of thin air - wth?), I try to only schedule in calendar view. Time estimates are so disconnected with anything else in ClickUp that I kind of wonder why it's even a feature in the first place.

im wating for this!

Yes! I would love to see the hover circle in Gantt, before you drag it into the start date to be the size of the estimated time. If not during hover, at least once it is dropped.

Same with the timeline, if the task is estimated, once dragged into the timeline it should be automatically as wide as the number of days/hours estimated for the task.

For instance, I know have a task that has a 3 day estimation, when when I drag it to the timeline it is only one day wide.