[Status: Investigating 🕵️‍♀️] Paste multiple tasks or sub-tasks

I've been following this thread for five years. Every couple I'll jump in and comment. None of the work-arounds address the key issue. All the competitors have this feature. I can't properly convey how astounded I am by the failure of the Wrike team to implement this. It seems like a trivial amount of work for such a high-interest feature that drives real dissatisfaction. 

My disappointment in Wrike is immeasurable, and my day is, once again, ruined.

Amen amen Gabe Mott

I started this thread and my workaround has been  A s a n a  for years now. We design and build applications in the Digital Transformation space and one of our core tenants is to keep asking the question: "How can we design this to actually make peoples life (day) better?"

Copy/paste is a no brainer, second nature to everyone who works on a computer.

I know some enormous companies using Wrike and I hope to high heaven they can get this built soon.

Until then, thanks everyone for adding your weight to this FR.

Hi again, folks! Thank you for adding your thoughts, concerns, and feedback here, please rest assured your sentiment is passed on internally.

I'm sorry to see you're disappointed by my latest comment! I'd like to point out that the team is still researching this potential functionality, so the status here remains "Investigating". 

Please let me also share some detail on how this Product Feedback forum works. We have a voting system here where any Wrike user can upvote a suggestion when visiting the Community. We have a process for reporting all suggestions, feedback, and votes from this forum to our Product team, and they continuously review all of this data.

Once any suggestion reaches the 60 votes threshold, we add a Product status to it. You can check out more info on that and on the list of statuses in this post. Our team can't commit to working on all or even most of the suggestions in this forum, but at the same time, feedback from this channel is still important to them. As an example, here's the list of Community-generated suggestions that the team has released last year.

I hope this info was helpful, but if you have any questions, please let me know.

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Hi everyone

Thanks for supporting this feature-request. It looks like we're only 3 votes away from this gaining 'Product' status. (thanks for the insights Lisa)

Please ask your co-workers to add their weight and vote too - let's get this feature into Wrike so users can get on with their day instead of fiddling with project templates while cursing the sky!

;) 

My vote made this 62, please let's get this feature rolling. 

Hi everyone! Could you please let me know if you've tried using AI subitem creation? I know it's not exactly the same as suggested in the original post, but it can still be helpful: it allows you to create multiple subitems from the parent item's description. 

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Lisa  I'm currently evaluating Wrike, and I was surprised that this feature isn't in the core product.  I'm also stunned that this thread is 6 years old, with so many detailed responses from your customer base, and the feature still doesn't exist, which leads me to believe Wrike isn't paying attention.  Customers even tell you this is a huge selling point that Asana uses against you, but nothing.

However, what is even more strange is that you use AI to solve a copy and paste problem. That must be a first in the world. I'm letting you know it worked, but there was definitely a face palm afterwards. 

Kristian Poe Like some of the others on this thread, I will occasionally check on this out of sheer morbid curiosity. My first comment was in 2019. 

Matt Pavid and Gabe Mott the wait continues....(well...not for me...I stopped using Wrike years ago).

I'm glad I am late to the party. Wrike definitely outshines Asana, but this is a classic "Product Centric vs Customer Centric" Harvard Business Review type of case study.  It's a keeper of gem!

Hi folks!
I understand that it can be disappointing to see this idea that was submitted a while back, not being developed in Wrike. I'd like to shed some light on how this forum operates to provide you with more information.
The forum works based on votes and statuses, but it's important to note that Wrike can't guarantee the implementation of all or even most of the suggestions. While our Product team would love to work on the majority of the fantastic suggestions our users share, it's not always feasible. Sometimes, user suggestions may conflict with the needs of others, or adding new functionality may require resources that we currently don't have available. Additionally, there are ideas and enhancements in the pipeline that haven't been posted yet but are known to benefit the product's evolution.
That being said, we truly value all the feedback we receive, and that's precisely why we have this forum and the processes mentioned above. 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. At the beginning of each year, we create wrap-up posts to showcase all the user ideas that have been implemented.
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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Thank you for the explanation, Lisa.  My frustration and I bet the frustration of others here is that this is not a major feature-- it's just about interpreting a single action (paste) and doing something simple with it (splitting the input by newlines and creating a task for each).  I've run into the same issue as others, and like others, I'm trying to come over from Asana, but this missing feature is a real impediment.

I'm disappointed that such a simple and oft-requested feature is still unimplemented after 6 1/2 years.

I understand Rich Kay, thanks a lot for jumping in to share your feedback with us. Please rest assured your feedback will be passed on to the responsible team shortly. And let me know if you need help with anything else! 

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This is definitely a miss in Wrike. We don't even need it to create new tasks, just to update a single custom field in existing tasks with new data. Copying and pasting one by one into 50 columns each time is crazy. And we do it with multiple columns in each project. We weren't doing anything fancy before - just using excel - but the fact that it can't just be copied from one system that uses the cell format, to Wrike - which also uses a cell format - is shocking, at best. 

Thank you for your feedback Ren Sampson, and welcome to the Community 👋

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Checking to see if this feature has since been implemented since I see 128 upvotes.

More generally, we need to be able to paste a list to create sub-items (could be folders, projects, or tasks).

Hi Sri Sukhi, you can use the option to Create subitems by selecting the text (the list you copy-paste) to achieve this:

1. Paste the text in the task description and then select it. By hovering over the selected text, you will see the option Create subitems.

2. The items will created right after clicking on this option.

Would this work for you?

7 years later after initial request :( any progress on it?
It's all about speed of usage of the system. When there is friction in creating new tasks users start to avoid using the system as it's faster to note down the task list somewhere else. So creating new task as fast and as frictionless as possible should be priority for every creators os task management system. If they care about adoption of the system in the company.

Hi Marcin Kwiecinski! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. 😊

The speed and ease of creating new tasks are definitely crucial for the effective use of any task management system. Although there are a few more clicks, does the workaround shared by Juan—to use the option to create subitems by selecting the text in the description—work for you? Please let me know.

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Lots of great commentary here. I found this thread when searching for what I presumed was an existing feature. Still surprised it isn't. Notion allows this too. Basically any app that has a table view allows you to copy and paste data like this. 

One additional note that I'd like to add (I'm not sure if other's have suggested it) is to allow enforced data entry when the view is filtered with exclusive parameters. For example, If I have a filter applied to East Region in a Territory field (column), then I would expect that all new pasted entries include that East Region data without having to specify it. Ideally, if that freaks the engineers in the room out, then prompt the user for a warning or option to include or disallow the enforced data.

I was the 4th comment here over seven years ago. My company long ago left Wrike. The solution we have in place isn't growing with us and we are looking for something to replace it. I have fond memories of Wrike, and would consider making the switch back, but then I remember this thread. I'm not looking for a work-around. I'm not looking for suggestions on how I can minimize clicks. The feature request is clear. All the other services offer it. If it is this significant a challenge for Wrike to implement it, then Wrike is not the solution for my company.

Thanks Gabe and Rustin!

Hi Rustin Crawford and Gabe Mott 👋🏼

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. I completely understand the sentiment. I checked, and currently, there are no updates on this particular request. Please be assured that we will continue to pass your feedback to the team and check for updates regularly.

I'd like to reiterate the workaround shared by Juan: using the option to create subitems by selecting text in the description. While I understand it isn’t the same, it might still be helpful for those who aren't aware.

Thank you!

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I would love this feature as well! I can't believe this doesnt exist when some of these comment are 6+ years old

Thank you for the feedback, Katie Hughes, and welcome to the Wrike Community 😊. Did you get a chance to try out the suggested workaround, i.e., using the option to create subitems by selecting text in the description? Let me know! 👇🏼

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Basudha, this presumes we want to create subitem tasks. If I'm already working in a Table view, I don't want to leave my environment to go to a Project or Task description just to paste and create subitems. For all of the incredible work the team has done to improve the UX over the past few years, it's comical that this one basic item is getting so much resistance. It's like defending not adding a spell check feature to a word processor with "Have you considered looking at a dictionary?". This is an essential, expected feature that every table-view app offers.

I'm a huge fan of this tool and advocate for it every day. But this one puzzles me.

Agree with your point, Rustin Crawford. We’ll continue to pass your feedback to the team and keep everyone in the loop about any new updates. Thanks! 🙏🏼

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