Skip Weekends when setting dates with Automations
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Alister
We need to be able to use the "skip weekends" functionality when updating dates as part of an Automation.
For example, I have an Automation that triggers whenever a task moves into the "awaiting review" status. This Automation sets a custom "follow-up" date field to 2 days from the automation trigger date- but if today is Friday, the follow-up date is set for Sunday. I need the automation to skip the weekend and instead set the date for Tuesday.
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César
Need to be able to select business vs. calendar days!!!
Tomoya Oowaki
Subject: [Report] "Skip Non-Work Days" setting not applying to Automation due date changes.
I'm posting this to share information regarding the behavior of a ClickUp Automation feature.
[Summary]
I have confirmed an issue where the "Skip Non-Work Days" setting, enabled in the App Center, is not being applied when an Automation sets a task's due date.
[Details]
My Setup
The "Skip Non-Work Days" ClickApp is enabled in the App Center.
What Happened
An automation set to "When status changes, set due date to 2 days in the future" was triggered on a Thursday, and it set the task's due date to Saturday. My expectation was that with this setting enabled, the automation would skip the non-work days (the weekend) and set the due date for the following Monday.
[Response from ClickUp Support]
I contacted support about this behavior, and their response was that "under the current specifications, the due date change action in automations does not consider non-work days, and this is the intended behavior."
[Future Outlook]
The support representative understood the need for the ability to skip non-work days within automations and agreed to forward this to the development team as a feature improvement request.
I am sharing this information for everyone who uses automations for strict schedule management. I strongly hope that this improvement will be prioritized in a future update.
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Erica Young
Please, this feature is desperately needed to avoid having to go through and "correct" automatically set dates.