[Status: Launched 🚀] Convert a Task into a Project

Lisa That is so disappointing. It is clearly a desperately desired feature.

@... Unfortunately your workaround doesn't accomplish what many of us are hoping for. Losing all of the comments/interaction defeats the purpose of "converting" the task into a project- we all know we can just create a new project with the same content as the existing task.

My org submits project proposal requests via a request form. I then present these proposals to the leadership team. We want to view these proposals in the kanban board view, thus they have to come in as a task. When they approve a proposal to move forward, at that point I would like the task to turn into a project so it flows with all of the other project capabilities and views, rather than a task with a ton of subtasks.

Lisa, every time you say these things it is like spitting in the face of years worth of users begging for this to happen. Your failure to add anything of value to this conversation is as big a problem as the problem itself. Quit treating your customer base like children. 

Not to add fuel to the fire, but it seems like the Wrike Customer's (US/WE) are in support of adding this ability.  The status of Not Planned which means = Not planned and unlikely to be part of the Product Team’s roadmap in the near future.  I do not understand, with 500+ upvotes, you are telling us that Wrike is not going to consider this in the future.  Granted that some ideas may not have the traction that this idea has.  But this is ridiculous.  Are we wasting our time on these Community Forums for Voting on ideas to improve the functionality of the Wrike Platform?

It is truly absurd that the Wrike team has no intention of addressing this requested feature despite the clear demand from over 500 active users. While I don't intend to digress from the main topic, I also believe that sorting is another significant issue that could be easily resolved on Wrike. After all, shouldn't user experience (UX) be one of the primary drivers of customer satisfaction? Disregarding fundamental requests for functional development does not reflect well on your team.

Hello everyone!

Firstly, I want to apologise if our responses have left you feeling dissatisfied. We understand that it may seem frustrating to hear similar replies, especially when your suggestions are not being implemented and planned at the moment.

We deeply value your input, but it's not always possible for us to incorporate every idea into our current roadmap. This is not a reflection of the quality or value of your suggestions, but rather a matter of aligning with our current product priorities and resource allocation.

In this specific instance, the idea proposed, despite its popularity, doesn't quite align with our current plans and would demand resources we are unable to devote at this time. However, we want to reassure you that we continue to forward all your feedback to our developers and your voices are being heard. This topic is a regular part of our internal discussions.

Thank you for your understanding. We truly appreciate your continued support and engagement.

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Lisa Does this mean there are some other features coming that will solve our need? I think, at this point, we need a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe the solution isn't going to look like "convert a task into a project," but is there something on the roadmap that will accomplish the end result we are looking for?

I have never quite understood the thought process in developing the tool to allow the customer to convert a folder into a project, but not a task.  Our workaround to this limitation, while is not ideal (due to the start date of the task being earlier than the creation date of the project), is to tag/move the form intake task into the Planning phase of the project once the task has been approved to be converted to a project. At that point we have to back date the start date of the project to match the start date of the task, which then shows a start date prior to the project creation date (which seems a little odd that the tool even allows that to happen). 

Definitely some room for improvements here and I have to agree with the others, if 500+ votes is not enough to move this up in the roadmap, then what is the point of even having the little "hearts" other than for us to show one another a little love (which we all could use from time to time).

Thank you for additional feedback! At the moment, this idea is not on the roadmap. We continue to share your feedback, and if there are any changes or updates, we will let you know. 

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Lisa Does this mean there are some other features coming that will solve our need? I think, at this point, we need a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe the solution isn't going to look like "convert a task into a project," but is there something on the roadmap that will accomplish the end result we are looking for?

Lisa,rather than disappoint us further by sharing what IS NOT on the future roadmap, perhaps it would be better to tell us what IS on the roadmap.

I’ve been following this thread for 6 years, it’s time to hear something different than, “it’s not on the roadmap”. I hope I can return to this thread to see some exciting new features that users have actually been asking for.

Hi folks! Although we don't currently offer a public product roadmap, there are several suggestions that got released this year, and more releases are planned. Here are some of them:

• Color attribute with custom fields
• Bullet points in task comments
• New Table View suggestion - add "last modified date" to selectable columns
• Hyperlinks in discussion
• Clickable links in description in External Request Forms
• Custom Field HTML Link

I hope this info is helpful! 

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Requested since 2017. In 6 years it isn't a priority nor there hasn't been resources made available.

Such a basic feature that is very common among growing companies.

tsk tsk tsk

Welcome to the forums Ricardo Gonzalez Cuello, and thank you for letting us know your feedback. I hope my previous replies in this thread have given you some context around this suggestion and how our team works with ideas in this forum. 

Please let me know if you have any further questions or feedback. 

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Just adding my voice to the slew of others excited to see this feature added

PLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAASEEEEE

I'll be back next year to beg again. 

Hi Gina-Anne Cameron-Turner, welcome to the Community! Thank you very much for adding your support to this thread. Hope to see you more often here in the Community 🙂

Hello Gareth Radley, please rest assured that we will keep you informed in case there are any changes. Thank you for voicing your interest in this idea 👍

Has this been addressed? I'm in a free trial period, testing the software on day 1, and running into the same issue. Phillp's position on the initial "mind dump" and clean-up of thoughts in a "post-mind dump" stage is where I'm at. This is a no-brainer function, and I'm surprised this has been open since 2017. Are there any updates on a fix?

Hi Zohrab Grigorian, welcome to the Community 👋 Thanks a lot for sharing your feedback! 

We don't have any updates at the moment, but we'll be sure to let you know if we have any news to share in the future. 

I understand it may be disappointing to see this extremely popular idea not being planned at the moment, but our product team can't commit to working on all or even most of the suggestions. At the same time, they do work on many of the features suggested by the Community. Please let me know if you have any additional feedback or questions, we're here to help. 

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Adding my voice to this consensus. It seems like an awful lot of users have been clamouring for this feature for years...

Hello Benjamin Rodd, welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your support for this suggestion 👍 You're right in pointing out how popular this idea is within the Community, and we understand that you might find it frustrating to not see it implemented yet. Please rest assured that we pass all your feedback on to our Product Team, and as soon as we have an update on this feature, we'll gladly share it with you in this thread.

If there's anything else we can assist you with, don't hesitate to let us know. Also, allow me to highlight that you can explore our New to Community forum to discover all the resources available in our Community 🙂

With the release of features that extend existing tasks and projects, such as custom item types, I am surprised that there is not a feature to convert them without making users aware of the difference between tasks and projects.
Users are not that aware of the difference between tasks and projects, so it should be designed in such a way (like in life) that they can redo it later, no matter which way they create it.

Agree. Please add this feature request.

We also would really like this to be implemented: added my +1. In the meantime, it might be possible to create it using a custom Wrike API app that maybe gets triggered by a checking a custom field. Has anyone tried this (obviously inferior to an official feature, which we would love to see as soon as possible)?

Hi everyone, thank you very much for supporting this suggestion! Please, rest assured that we will keep you updated if there are any changes implemented 👍

Hi everyone 👋 I have good news: our team has started researching the possibility of introducing this feature. Our team has carefully gathered and analysed all the feedback you shared with us in this thread, and now, we'd like to ask you a couple of specific questions to understand how we should move forward. We kindly ask you to fill out this short survey; it shouldn't take you more than 3 minutes. We're looking forward to your replies. Thank you for your insights and willingness to help us shape Wrike.
We'll keep you posted on how the research goes based on your replies.

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Hi Lisa, Is there another way I may get to this link or is there an alternate platform so I may fill this out?  My company unfortunately blocks Google.  Yes, Google of all things, everyone has Google.  Thanks!

i can get to the google link, but it pulls my gmail address vs my company email, which I think would be more helpful in your database (knowing what users/companies have filled out the survey).

Hi Lisa, 

The question is not formatted correctly. You need to flip the options. The "importance" should be on the X grid and the "type of data" should be on the Y grid.

Unless you meant us to grade these 7 types of data from most to least important.

thanks

Hi all,

I had a workaround that to create a project titled by the name of the task in question and move the task to the new project. It will move it with all its comments and history.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Mohamed