[Status: Not planned] Improve how Recurring tasks work
Greetings!
I must confess that of all the many, awesome features in Wrike, recurring tasks is probably the one I'm most underwhelmed by. One of the tools that we came from was Asana, which falls short in so many ways, but handles recurring tasks very well.
I was bummed the first time I created a recurring task and found that Wrike simply created a task for every single instance. There's one task that we do every month, for example, for the foreseeable future. First, I realized I couldn't simply have it recur indefinitely. Then, after setting it to 5 years, I realized I'd created this monster list which ate all the other tasks, visually.
I understand this would likely require back-end changes, but please consider changing how recurring tasks work. Here's a couple thoughts:
- Make it a single task marked as a recurring task (bringing things like description and comments to a single place)
- Allow for a task to recur indefinitely. Since it's just a single task, no problem!
- Instead of a task being daily or weekly or monthly or yearly, allow a user to define multiple recurrence rules, providing the flexibility for more bizarre schedules
Being a task attribute, I believe it would also lend itself to open support for recurring subtasks as well.
Hope this helps! :)
Hi folks, that's correct, as Elaine mentioned above, this suggestion will be reviewed again in the future, but for now, it remains not planned. I'm sorry you're disappointed. Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.
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As with a similar post to this one, it continues to be ignored by Wrike dev team. This one for 5 years now; the other post for 2 1/2 years. So disappointing that Wrike continues to fail its users by not addressing the requests.
This post has 71 followers and has been upvoted 144 times and is 5 years old. What more does it take to get these requests addressed?
I guess it's way more important to add the Invite link to the Create button (green "+" button), which is unnecessary in my opinion, than it is to improve the features that have functional weaknesses.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts here Jason Pontius! I understand your sentiment here as this suggestion is indeed popular. Unfortunately, as you may know, our team can't commit to work on every idea posted on the Community. However, I've flagged this post with the Product team again, and although there are no concrete plans at the moment, there might be some updates for recurring tasks in the future.
We'll be sharing any news here on the Community 👍
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Jason Pontius - Please refer to my post last March. There was an effort in 2020/2021 to assess this. At the end of the day this is a Design issue. From my understanding there would have to be a major restructuring to fix this. One that we (Mark Tuggle, Ella Flansburg, Evan Rakowski) and many other have been asking for for years. If this functionality is vital, you will probably have to look to a different tool; because at this point, I don't think this will ever be addressed by Wrike. I do wish they would just tell us that it is not going to be added.
Scott Harris I revisited your posts last year. I believe I was one of the people that was surveyed/interviewed regarding this topic. I have had a number of calls with Wrike discussing feedback, improvements, frustration points, etc. but I have given up since it's a waste of my time. None of my feedback (which often reflects feedback from others as well) has been addressed that I can recall.
We really don't know if the "technical obstacles" on this issue are related to overall system architecture or more a priority on where they want to assign their resources. They never really tell us anything, as you pointed out, regarding the future. It's always "not on the road map" but never say if it ever will be addressed or when, or why something isn't possible. Best you can hope for is that someday they may decide to work on it.
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