Retroactively apply Templates everywhere it was used after editing the master template
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George
From Support: It would be nice if edits to our Views applied to previous versions. This would prevent us from needing to update hundreds of Templates manually in a larger organization.
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Lily Chan
[EDITED APR 2026]
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback and highlighting the importance of this feature! We absolutely recognize how valuable this request is to our users and the impact it could have.
Right now, our team is laser focused on improving the quality and reliability of template application and improving the creation/edit experience (a true Template Editor). These are our top priorities at the moment to ensure a smoother experience for everyone.
Once we’ve made significant progress in these areas, we’ll return to scoping out this feature request. We appreciate your patience and understanding, and we’re committed to keeping you updated as things evolve. Your input truly helps us shape our roadmap—thank you for being part of our community!
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Michaela Wagner
September 2026 — Trial customer here.
This is one of the first things I tried to do before creating hundreds of tasks, because it seems essential that templates can propagate updates across the entire workspace. This is also fairly standard functionality in many editing and builder applications.
When I’m starting out with ClickUp and mapping out my first projects, it’s impossible to know in advance what functionality there is available and what I might need later. Projects evolve, and the way you manage them evolves too — surely that’s one of the fundamental reasons for using a project management tool in the first place.
As I decide whether to continue with ClickUp after the trial, the availability of this functionality ranks very highly on my list — considerably higher, for example, than having a sophisticated template editor.
Given how many users have requested this feature, could you please explain why continuing to improve the template editor (apparently since 2019?) has been prioritised for so many years over implementing master templates / the ability for template changes to propagate to existing projects?
Most importantly, what is the realistic timeframe for making this highly important feature available?
I’d really appreciate a clear and honest answer, as this will be an important factor in my decision about whether ClickUp is the right project management tool for me.
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Patrick Doyle
It is ridiculous that updating a template in one place forces all other places that use it to revert to 'Custom'. What is the point of a template if changes are not propagated??? Why does a bright red warning not pop up when making changes to templates to warn that this is going to happen???
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Adam Morley
June 2026. We still need this! More urgent than improving the template creation experience.
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Michaela Wagner
Adam Morley I agree!
Luis Sanchez
This feature is definitely not a nice to have, but a must. Especially in agency businesses when using ZenPilot methodology of having a folder for every client.
When something simple like a view is updated in the client folder template we need to manually update it across all existing client folders. This can include 50+ accounts sometimes and I can imagine the struggle with 100+ accounts.
I’m currently exploring a work-around using AI Agents to auto-apply templates to existing views when the template is updated. Just getting started with testing this method though.
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adamwilliams
That’s a fair point, having view edits reflect across versions would really streamline workflows and reduce repetitive updates, especially for teams managing scale like in dog relocation services india https://pearllemonpets.in/services/dog-relocation/ where consistency matters across multiple templates.
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Rune
Lily Chan Hello! Could you provide some updates? This function is very necessary for big company?
Lily Chan
Hi Rune - we currently don't have a target date for this yet. We are prioritizing the feature request for a true Template Editor experience first to improve the overall UX of using and managing templates first. https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/make-it-easier-to-create-and-edit-templates-without-needing-to-apply-the-templat
Once we have a more solidified date, I'll update the status to Planned.
Note that we also have a few prerequisite feature requests to tackle that this one is dependent on, for example: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/apply-template-to-an-existing-list-folder-or-space
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Martin Skjølstrup Larsen
This request seems very old.
To me it more of a need to have, then a nice to have.
I am wondering why this request does not have a high priority
Lily Chan
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Option to update existing instances of a template
Madeleine Leslie
It would be nice to be able to choose, when updating a template, if a) that template should be updated to all existing instances or if b) we just want to update that template from now (the latter option is obvs the current model).
Lily Chan
Merged in a post:
Update Template Instances
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Herman D Tate
Having to update existing template instances is very time consuming. And goes against your promise of saving time. This has been an issue for years please address soon!
Lily Chan
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Option to apply changes made to the template to list views created from it.
Fábio Oliveira Salviano
It turns out that we created a template for viewing a list and applied it in several places, but when we need to change, we have to go back to every place where we applied that template and we need to reload the template. Ideal would be to change the template and automatically update the rest that was created from it.
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