What do you think about adding new field type “Date”? I’d like to have “Start Date” and “End Date” for tasks and currently I am using “Text” field for that which does not work well for 2 reasons:
Inconsistency - date formats are written differently by team members. 13 April, 13/04, 13 april 2017…
Inability to Sort By - text fields are general. That’s why you cannot really “Sort By” those fields. In case of Dates, you could sort tasks by Date. This point actually is linked to first point - consistency.
Thanks for the feedback, @kshengelia. This is something we hear from customers often, and we hope to be able to improve the functionality for this soon.
In the meantime, have you considered trying out a subtask for the start date? This would allow it to appear in the assignee’s task list on the start date (if the subtask is assigned to them as well) and can also be brought up in advanced search results for the project to include tasks and subtasks in a list.
Let me know if this might work in the meantime, and we’ll keep you updated on future improvements for start dates. Thanks!
I’d also like to chime in with a request for this feature, please. I’ve just set up a task template with a few different fields, two of which ask for specific event dates. These are unrelated to the due date of the task itself. At the moment, people have to manually type in their date, but it would be easier to have a proper date field available.
I agree. A custom date field would be helpful, for example to set internal deadlines or notes on when to follow up without having to create another task just to follow up on an existing task.
Really wish this was a thing. Using subtask for it doesn’t work because if you want to select a bunch of tasks and change all the custom fields at once you can’t if it is a subtask.
Be nice to include Date as a Type in the Custom Field rather than typing the date - possibility of people entering different date formats since there is no format validation.
it will be good if you can include another type as Calendar in custom field, it will be helpful in update dates for anything as you don’t need to put dates manually in certain format.
