Custom Field types

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.A screenshot of the Create Field modal with an annotation showing the custom field type dropdown.

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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
Button

Use Button Custom Fields to manually trigger Automations on individual tasks.

Review  
Checkbox A true or false checkbox. Review required
  • Required field
  • Default value
Date A custom date and time (formatted like other dates in ClickUp).

Today

12/31/2022

12/31/2022

1:00 pm

  • Required field
  • Default value

Dropdown

Use the New button to quickly add a new label!

A series of options in a menu.
You can use up to 500 options.

Add options in bulk!

Dropdown Custom Fields include the following AI Fields:

  • Categorize
  • Custom autofill with AI
  • T-shirt Size

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly

Annually

  • Required field

  • Default value
  • Order of options

  • Colors for each option

  • Auto or manual sort options
Email A formatted email address. user@company.com
  • Required field
  • Default value
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

 

Labels

Use the New button to quickly add a new label!

A flexible list of options, similar to Tags.

You can use up to 500 options.

Add options in bulk!

Customer reported bug

Internally reported bug

QA reported bug

  • Required field

  • Default value
  • Order of options

  • Colors for each option

  • Auto or manual sort options
Location

A formatted address based on Google Maps.

Use this field with Map view!

123 Main St, Hometown, CA, United States
  • Required field
  • Default value
Money A formatted amount of money in any currency.

$123.45

R$12,345.00

  • Required field

  • Currency

  • Default value
Number A formatted numeric value.

1,234,567.89

  • Required field
  • Default value
People Select people and Teams.

Guests will only be able to see users from Locations that have been shared with them.

Sam

Accounting team

  • Required field

  • Show people from my entire Workspace

    • When enabled, everyone in the Workspace will be shown in the selector. Guests and Teams are shown depending on their settings.

    • When disabled, only users with access to the task will be shown in the selector.

  • Show guests

  • Select multiple people

  • Include Teams

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

  • Required field
  • Default value
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

  • Required field

  • Default value

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

  • Default value
Rating

Use emoji to rate items on a numeric scale.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

  • Required field

  • Emoji type

  • Rating number 1-5

  • Default value
Relationships

Tasks linked together using Relationship.

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)

 
Signature

Capture typed or drawn signatures.

John Jones

  • Required field
Text

Enter a single line of plain text.

Text Custom Fields are automatically middle-aligned.

Text Custom Fields include the following AI Fields:

  • Sentiment
  • Custom autofill with AI

Use ClickUp to save one day a week!

  • Required field
  • Default value
Text area (Long Text)

Enter a paragraph of plain text.

You can use rich text editing in this Custom Field.

Long Text Custom Fields include the following AI Fields:

  • Summary
  • Progress Updates
  • Translation
  • Action Items
  • Custom autofill with AI

Long Text Custom Fields have a 50,000 character limit.

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

  • Required field
  • Default value
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.

Votes
Screenshot of a voting Custom Field.png

  • Required field
  • Emoji type
  • See or hide who voted
Website

Capture the URL of any website.

https://clickup.com

  • Required field
  • Default value

Create a Custom Field

Learn how to create a Custom Field!

Show Custom Fields

Show and explore the data available in Custom Fields from tasks or views. 

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