Format, organize, and add context to tasks using different Custom Fields types.
Add locations, AI-powered fields, dropdown menus, and more to enrich your work. Use different Custom Field types to tailor your collaborative work management system to your team's needs.
What you'll need
- 60 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.
- Required Custom Fields are only available on the Business Plan and above.
List of Custom Field types
Below is a list of Custom Fields types with descriptions, examples, and the options available for each type:
| Type | Description | Example | Options |
| AI |
An AI-generated task summary or update. Formatted according to the options you select. |
This task involves creating a new widget. |
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| Checkbox | A true or false checkbox. | Review required |
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| Date | A custom date and time (formatted like other dates in ClickUp). |
Today 12/31/2022 12/31/2022 1:00 pm |
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| Dropdown |
A series of options in a menu. |
Weekly Monthly Quarterly Annually |
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| A formatted email address. | user@company.com |
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| Files | Upload files from your device or cloud storage services. | profilepicture.png |
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| Formula | Make calculations between fields on a task using both simple and advanced formulas. | Budget - Cost = Profit |
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| Labels |
A flexible list of options, similar to Tags. You can use up to 500 options. |
Customer reported bug Internally reported bug QA reported bug |
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| Location |
A formatted address based on Google Maps. Use this field with Map view! |
123 Main St, Hometown, CA, United States |
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| Money | A formatted amount of money in any currency. |
$123.45 R$12,345.00 |
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| Number | A formatted numeric value. |
1,234,567.89 |
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| People | Pick people and Teams. Guests will only be able to see users from Locations that have been shared with them. |
Sam Accounting team |
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| Phone |
A formatted phone number with country and area codes. Click the flag icon to set the country code for each phone number! |
+1 (212) 555 1234 +61 0412 345 678 |
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| Progress (Auto) |
An automatically calculated progress bar that tracks the completion of subtasks, checklists, and assigned comments. Nested subtask progress is not included in Progress (Auto) rollup. |
75/100 |
Track completion of:
Tasks without action items:
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| Progress (Manual) |
A progress bar that's manually set. |
10/100 |
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| Rating |
Use emoji to rate items on a numeric scale. |
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ |
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| Relationships |
Tasks linked together using Relationship. |
Task A |
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| Rollup |
Displays fields from related tasks including:
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12/31/2022 (Task A's due date) |
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Signature Signature Custom Fields are in beta. |
Capture typed or drawn signatures. |
John Jones |
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| Tasks |
Tasks linked together without Relationships. |
Task A |
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| Text |
Enter a single line of plain text. Text Custom Fields are automatically middle-aligned. |
Use ClickUp to save one day a week! |
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| Text area (Long Text) |
Enter a paragraph of plain text. You can use rich text editing in this Custom Field. You can turn this field into an AI Custom Field. |
ClickUp is the most powerful and flexible productivity and project management software on the market! |
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| Voting |
Use Voting Custom Fields to prioritize work, run retrospectives, or analyze sentiment. You can add this Custom Field to List, Board, Table, Timeline, and Workload view. |
Feature request A |
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| Website |
Capture the URL of any website. |
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Custom Field types and AI
The following Custom Fields are searched when you ask AI a question about a task:
- Date
- Location
- Number
- Phone Number
- Text
- Text area (Long Text)
- URL
Add bulk 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.
You can add up to 500 options to each Dropdown or Label Custom Field.
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.
Dropdown and Label Custom Field values cannot be restored once deleted.