Subtasks should inherit their parent task's status | Voters

Subtasks should inherit their parent task's status

Matthias Thoen

a subtask should automatically inherit the status of its parent task by default, but you can give it a different status afterwards.

August 12, 2019

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Automaticall create subtasks with the same status as the parent task

Justin Saeian

Automation for automatically making the subtask status the same as the parent task, this has been a common issue for us where the parent task is in progress and we forget to update the subtasks to the same status

April 2, 2026

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Setting to have subtasks inherit parent's status on creation

Have the option to make newly created subtasks inherit parent's status.

April 2, 2026

Joana Soares

I’m having an issue in ClickUp with task statuses. When I move a parent task from Backlog to Sprint Backlog — that is, the user story — the subtasks remain in Backlog, and this has a huge impact on the reports I use to track the team’s workload points. The sum of the points from these subtasks in Backlog isn’t counted; only the points entered directly in the parent task are considered, which isn’t how we assign points. How is this not solved yet?

Cameron C

Should inherit other things like priority too

Tim Ray

How is this not already done? It should be optional, but it should 110% have been done by now when CLEARLY people want this. Come on, ClickUp!

Pedro Isaac Figueiredo

Any updates on this?

Annie Technologie

It's nonsense that this option isn't the default. Moreover, it works in table mode... but not in list view... I will look to change the software. Really disappointing

Judith Elemo

No i do not think that subtasks should inherit the parent tasks status. If implemented then it should be an option not a default

Contractor 4B

Update on this please?

Runa

PLEASE CLICKUP TEAM make every subtask automatically inherit the parent status (color)!!!!! it's hard to recommend the system as intelligent when you have to manually change the status if each subtask

Or AT LEAST allow me to create an automation that says.. "When a new subtask is created THEN set status to "PARENT STATUS".

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