Adding Followers from Blueprint
Hi! I've just discovered that projects launched from Blueprints do not keep the followers marked in the Blueprint tasks. This was shocking and disappointing to find out! Wrike recommends having only one assignee, so we've been using "Followers" to keep people in the loop on tasks that they're not responsible for, but still need to know about status and updates. How do other people approach this problem?
Yes, this would be a huge game changer for my team. We utilize Followers heavily, instead of assignee, and it's tedious to have to add after creating from Blueprint
Hi Krystal Burwell, thank you for chiming in here - please be sure to like/upvote the post if you haven't yet🙌🏼
This would be very helpful to my team as well! I have upvoted this
Thanks a lot Lily Brock, I'll let the responsible team know your feedback 🙂
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We'd also benefit from having followers copied across from a blueprint. Having to re-add followers is a decent time suck on my end.
Jason Fassler Desiree Dixon the hacky way I worked around this is to create an automation in the location where your blueprint is happening and adding a comment with the users' names to set up the follow. As with all Wrike related workarounds, it's super annoying that we have to resort to something like this but unless the product team deems this feature worthy of their attention, it's the only way.
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Hi, This is still an issue in July 2025.
Our team relies heavily on task followers to keep multiple stakeholders informed without assigning everyone directly. We've set default followers in our blueprints, expecting they would carry over, but they are not applied to tasks created from those blueprints.
This adds unnecessary manual work and increases the risk of key people missing important updates. It would be great to have native support for default followers in blueprint-based task creation. Please consider prioritizing this — it would improve consistency and save time for many teams like ours.
Thanks
Hi Olivier Boivin, I'm sorry to hear that this is causing issues with your work!
Thank you for detailing your use case and sharing your feedback. We’ll be sure to post an update if there are any developments regarding this suggestion in the coming months.
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Hi,
any update on this feature ?
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There are no updates on this currently, João Alexandre da Costa Ferreira, but we will keep you in the loop about any developments. Thank you! 👍🏽
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