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Custom Field Types

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Use our large selection of Custom Field types to format your data to ensure consistency.

What you'll need

  • 100 uses of Custom Fields are available on the Free Forever Plan.

  • Unlimited uses are available on all paid Plans.

  • Individual Custom Fields can be hidden from all guests.

List of Custom Field types

Here is a list of Custom Fields types with descriptions, examples, and the options available for each type.

Type

Description

Example

Options

Checkbox

A true or false checkbox.

Review required

  • Required field

Date

A custom date and time (formatted the same way as other dates in ClickUp).

Today

12/31/2022

12/31/2022 1:00pm

  • Required field

Dropdown

A series of options in a menu.

Tip: Add options in bulk!

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly

Annually

  • Required field

  • Order of options

  • Colors for each option

Email

A formatted email address.

user@company.com

  • Required field

Files

Upload files from your device or cloud storage services.

profilepicture.png

  • Required field

Formula

Make calculations between fields on a task using both simple and advanced formulas.

Budget - Cost = Profit

  • Required field

Labels

A flexible list of options, similar to Tags.

 

Tip: Add options in bulk!

Customer reported bug

Internally reported bug

QA reported bug

  • Required field

  • Order of options

  • Colors for each option

Location

A formatted address based on Google Maps.

Tip: Use this field with Map view!

123 Main St, Hometown, CA, United States

  • Required field

Money

A formatted amount of money in any currency.

$123.45

R$12,345.00

  • Required field

  • Currency

Number

A formatted numeric value.

1,234,567.89

  • Required field

People

Pick people and Teams.

Sam

Accounting team

  • Required field

  • Show people from my entire Workspace

  • Show guests

  • Select multiple people

  • Include Teams

Phone

A formatted phone number with country and area codes.

Tip: Click the flag icon to set the country code for each phone number!

+1 (212) 555 1234

+61 0412 345 678

  • Required field

Progress (Auto)

An automatically calculated progress bar that tracks the completion of subtasks, checklists, and assigned comments.

Note: Subtask progress is not included in Progress (Auto) rollup.

75/100

  • Required field

Track completion of:

  • Subtasks

  • Archived subtasks

  • Checklists

  • Assigned comments

Tasks without action items:

  • Display 100% when a task is in a Done status

  • Display 100% Completed

  • Display 0% Completed

Progress (Manual)

A progress bar that's manually set.

10/100

  • Required field

  • Start value

  • End value

Rating

Use emoji to rate items on a numeric scale.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

  • Required field

  • Emoji type

  • Rating number 1-5

Relationship

Tasks linked together using Relationships.

Task A

  • Required field

  • Create Rollup fields

Rollup

Displays fields from related tasks including:

  • Date created

  • Date updated

  • Date closed

  • Start date

  • Due date

  • Time tracked

  • Time estimate

  • Sprint points

  • Status

12/31/2022 (Task A's due date)

  • Relationship

  • Rollup field

Tasks

Tasks linked together without Relationships.

Task A

  • Required field

Text

Enter a single line of plain text.

Use ClickUp to save one day a week!

  • Required field

Text Area (long text)

Enter a paragraph of plain text.

ClickUp is the most powerful and flexible productivity and project management software on the market!

  • Required field

Website

Capture the URL of any website.

https://clickup.com

  • Required field

Add values to Dropdown and Label Custom Fields

You can add multiple options at a time to Dropdown and Label Custom Fields by copying and pasting values from outside of ClickUp. 

Each option must be separated by a line break, such as separate cells in a column in Excel or Google Sheets or new lines in a Word or Google Doc.

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