[Status: Investigating 🕵️‍♀️] Automation Actions: Date Fields

I agree with this!

I agree with this!

this would be so helpful to have 

Hi Lynn Graham,

it's a strange idea for me to change tasks that are marked as completed into active again. Why don't you use recurring tasks for this? If you have to do the same tasks more often, it still remains every time a new task. I think it's totally confusing and messy if you would reactivate completed tasks for something like this.

Florian Kislich Hello,

One of the main challenges we have to work around in Wrike is that a majority of the people in our account are collaborators, which means they cannot manage their own tasks beyond the basics (status, comments, etc.). We have several governance processes that utilize an annual review cycle that include task-specific information in the description. We need to have a running record for each task, so recurrent tasks would hinder this. Additionally, we need to be able to see how often items in governance need updates off-cycle (more than the annual review cycle). Lastly, the folder also acts as a repository, all items must be available to view at any given time.

I am open to suggestions about this process; however, being able to change due dates as an automation action has other helpful implications beyond this one scenario.

This would be a very helpful automation for our Teams!

Hi everyone! Lynn Graham thank you very much for creating this post, I can see it's becoming a popular one very fast 🤩

Thank you all for adding your votes, I'm passing your feedback to our Product Team 👍

Yes, Please add this to the automation actions. I would also like the ability to change a date custom field. Especially based on duration or +5 days from creation date. This would help solve so many roadblocks! We need dynamic date automations. :)

Noted, thanks for sharing Crystal Fugate, we've passed it on 🙂

Elaine Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

Elaine Wrike Team member Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

Another request came through for something similar: Change dates in automation – Wrike Help Center

Lynn Graham I have been hoping for automation of dates for a while, hopefully they will add it soon.

This seems like an obvious one to should be included, especially for tracking and following up of various tasks. I added an upvote, hoping to see it move into investigating soon.

Thank you for adding your support to this feature Justin Cisney, we'll keep you updated if there are any changes 👍

I agree! I have some tasks that are created automatically, and I would like it if I could automatically set a due date for X days after creation.

There have been several instances where date automation would be helpful, whether with the standard dates or custom field dates.  I upvote for this as well

Rohan V Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

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I Agree with this

+1 for this idea! Just discovered a need for this today.

Thanks for supporting this idea, Peter and Daisy. As Rohan mentioned, it's on the roadmap for the coming months, and we'll keep you updated on any developments. 👍

Basudha Sakshyarika Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

Basudha Sakshyarika Wrike Team member Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

I honestly don't know why this wasn't considered from the start - the start and due date for a task are one, if not the, primary attributes of a task so it's natural that one would want to be able to update that with an automation.

Hi Jules Bowie, thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We’ll pass it along to the relevant Product team.

Rohan V Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

Rohan V Wrike Team member Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

Throwing my support in on this one. We are using forms + conditional branching to start with a blueprint and then add custom item types as tasks. Would LOVE to be able to use automation to set that. Without it, we have to workaround by also making a Blueprint that is just one of our Custom Item Types and set dates there. Then add from the blueprint instead of directly from the custom item types.

Welcome to the community, David Bell! Thank you for taking the time to post your feedback. Your comment has been forwarded to the relevant team for visibility. I'll keep you posted if there are any future developments 👍

Rohan V Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Узнайте о самых популярных функциях Wrike и советах по его использованию

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Can't stress the need for adding date changes to automation rules! I was just trying to create one and noticed it was missing; luckily a colleague of mine shared this article with me as I was going to submit a product feedback idea for this very thing. This is so necessary and this type of functionality is one that other PM tools have as part of their basic automation actions. Would love to see this implemented in Wrike as a simple automation rule for this could eliminate a lot of manual work and can help us solve some other issues we are trying to find solutions for.