[Status: Not planned] Editable Task Completion Date

Greg Gibbs There have been some important releases lately, like bi-directional email communications with non-Wrike users, conditions in Wrike's automation, and of course custom item types. There are many more to come soon, and I'm hoping you'll find them useful!  

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Voting for editing completion dates! Please help, Wrike...

Welcome to the Community and thank you for supporting this suggestion Jenna Chambliss!

I also vote to this function. 

Wrike should address this problem quickly!  The "Date Completed" field is especially annoying when onboarding, and when importing MS Project files.  Having the complete date always set to the "date marked completed" simply falsifies our process, and workarounds reduce Wrike to a manual process not much better than Excel.  I agree with Rob G. Irwin above, that this field should be called "Date Marked Completed" --but Duration should be calculated with an "Actual Completion Date" that is editable--otherwise Wrike isn't providing correct information without a manual workaround that seriously distorts the time it has actually taken to complete a task.  Why have a field whose lack of changeability renders it useless as a measure of our process?  

Hi Joseph Shuffield, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and thoughts here, I'm passing it on to our Product team. 

I would like to check on an update on making the completed date field editable . I have been tasked with tracking overages of days for both tasks and subtasks. I tried a workaround for the issue of not allowing an edit to the completed date .I created a new custom field for complete date that is editable to get past the limitation of your current completed date. I added a calculated field  for actual days to complete the task/subtask. I then added another calculated field to determine the percentage over between what the expected  duration and actual duration was. The gap I have is I can't find a way to have the custom actual days field not take weekends into consideration when totaling days like the stock duration does . So using a custom field does not solve my problem unless you can tell me if a custom field can somehow not take weekends into consideration when calculating days using one stock date field and custom date field  . Let me know if am explaining clearly as I know I am even a bit confused when reading what I typed

Hi Larry Sebak, I see that our Support team is in touch with you regarding your question here, please let me know if I can help with anything else. 

I am closing out last year and found a few instances of hanging tasks and project.  Now I am stuck with 2023 dates.  As administrator I should be able to edit.  This and other suggestions I have researched have gone on for 3-4 years here and are not resolved.  I don't understand with all of the feedback, why the development team is not addressing.  The folks commenting are not casual users but the thought leaders.  We understand the risk and can mitigate by limiting access to administrators only.  Please provide the requested functionality.

Thank you for your feedback Darin Brzakala! Please rest assured it's passed on to the Product team. 

Our team receives a lot of feedback from the Community and through other channels. While they aren't committed to addressing all or even most of the suggestions, they still play an important part in the team's decision-making and planning. This particular suggestion isn't planned at the moment, but we continue bringing up this topic and we'll let you know if there are any changes in the future. 

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We need this feature! Our team has been trying to update past reports and they're reading all wrong. We're uploading past years projects during the same type of market to utilize the reporting systems & graphs. Our department is considering a restructure and it would be super beneficial to be able to forecast precisely based on past data. 

Hi Jessa Money, welcome to the Community 👋

Thank you for sharing your feedback and supporting this suggestion. 

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Adding to the thread. As transparency and accurate reporting are integral to project management reporting, the project end date should be editable so accurate reporting can be completed with the product. It seems we have at least 4 years of people using workaround instead of the product working as the users need it to work. The workaround is ok, but I'd like to hear from the Wrike team on if this change has been scoped for a near future sprint?

Hi Darla Suit, thank you for adding your thoughts here. For now, this request remains 'not planned'. Although this is a popular request and we can understand how it could be beneficial, the team are currently focused on other priorities and therefore this isn't in scope. There's more information on how with work with Product feedback available in this Community post. We do however, continue to pass your feedback on to the team. If there's anything else we can help with, please don't hesitate to ask. 

Also, welcome to the Community! Be sure to check out our Welcome forum if you haven't already 😊

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Hi,

is there any news on this subject ? It seems "Completed Date" can still not be edited. Thanks,

Delphine

Hi Delphine Rochereau, welcome to the Community 👋

No updates at the moment; this suggestion remains not planned and unlikely to be re-prioritised this year. 

Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you with. 

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I second this motion along with everyone else, as if we have to use a workaround (which we currently do to accomplish accurate reporting), then we suddenly can't use the Gantt chart functionality. 

It's unfortunate it's an "either/or" situation where we have to choose between accurate reports with our own custom fields for dates or being able to use the Gantt Chart functionality. 

As a side note, this suggestion has 120 upvotes now, how many are required for it be added to the Product Team as an action item?

Thank you Cody Weber! At the moment, this idea is not planned by our team, but we continue to pass on all your feedback here to our team. And we'll let you know if there are any updates in the future. 

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Any update yet? We need to edit the Completion date

No updates currently Samar Das. We'll share your interest with our Product team.

Welcome to the Community 🙂

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Agreed, this functionality would be extremely beneficial for us as well. We would use this update regularly for project management. Now at 137 upvotes. Has this been reviewed by the Product Team yet?  

Hi Lindsay Fahey-Smith, thank you for your comment. We don't have updates about this suggestion, but we will share your feedback with our Product Team and keep you informed in case there are any changes implemented 👍

Adding my voice to bump this up on the priority list to make it an editable field.

We are new to Wrike and not having Completed Date as an editable field is very frustrating

Hi Michael Poskey Mary Regan welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your support for this idea, please rest assured that your feedback has been noted and that we will let you know in case there are any improvements 👍

If you have any additional questions, please let us us know. Also, please feel free to check our New to Community forum to discover all the resources you can find in our Community 🙂

This desire came up early in my Wrike days and I was frustrated to find Completion Date can't be edited. Adding my voice to bump as well and have upvoted. Thank you for the update above, @....

Hi everyone,

After searching for the right system to manage our company projects, we decided that Wrike offered the best cost benefit.

However, after using it for more than a year, we have concluded that issues such as the Completion Date problem, among others, were significant enough for us to cancel our subscription.

What bothered us the most is that Wrike's support consistently provided the same responses repeatedly. You can see @...'s comment above and all other Wrike "Community Team" personnel comments in this and other forum posts—they all seem to be following a script.

This request has received enough upvotes to warrant a review from Wrike, and it's been years since we first raised this concern. And there is still "no updates".

I'm disappointed and hope that Wrike can address these issues. If they do, we will consider returning to the system. Until then, we will likely use Trello, ClickUp, JIRA, or something else.

I believe it's important for Wrike users to understand the thoughts and experiences of other members, as they may also become frustrated with certain functionalities of the system.
Thank you!

Hi Rodrigo Caetano! Thanks a lot for reaching out and sharing such detailed feedback.

I understand that it can be disappointing to see some of the suggestions, especially those that were created a while back, not being developed in Wrike. We commit to reviewing and analyzing all feedback and we give special attention to ideas with many votes, but it's important to note that Wrike can't guarantee the implementation of all or even most of the suggestions.

That being said, we truly value all the feedback we receive, and that's precisely why we have this forum. We carefully track and report on all data, as well as request status updates. Your ideas and concerns are regularly shared and discussed with the Product Managers at Wrike.

Our team strives to allocate some of our resources to customer-generated suggestions. As an example, you can check out this post where we highlight some of the suggestions released last year that were generated by the Community. 

I hope this provides you with more context on how we work with feedback from the Community. If there's anything else I can assist you with, please let me know.

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We really need an editable completion date field that isn't a customized field workaround. I think the suggestion above for you to make the static/uneditable field be labeled "Marked complete" and add a new field for "Actual completion date" would address the needs that so many have shared here. Thanks.

Hi Julie Olsen, welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your support for this suggestion 😁

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