Hello, dear openproject community!

I have question regarding openproject community edition.

I could not find if there is a way (doesn't matter standard, workaround or coding) to create recurring tasks?

Kind regards,

Sandro

Hello Sandro,

it is not yet possible to set up a work package (e.g. task) as recurring. That is a highly anticipated feature request on the roadmap yet:

I added a vote for you there. Please feel free to add your thoughts on this as a comment to the work package mentioned above.

Best,

Alexander

Hi Alexander, Thank you and looking forward to see the feature released.

Hello Sandro,

The workaround I use for this is to have my main template work package created specifying the recurrence in the name for example "Monthly - Apply OpenProject server updates) and also assign a custom status of "Recurring". Set your start and finish dates on the work package so that when the work package comes up as due you can copy/clone the work package, change the status to "new" or whatever fits your workflow, change your dates accordingly and then update the date on the "Recurring work package" for it's next occurrence.  

Kind Regards

Andre

Until the new feature gets rolled out, I think Andre's take on this is how I'm going to manage that for our recurring tasks. Currently, I have "Send first batch of widgets" as the first one and the next one will be called "Send second batch of widgets" etc.