Darren Rose Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Hi If I create a task and leave the 'Assigned to' field empty, when I save the task it automatically adds the owner of the task as the assignee and marks the status as assigned. Would it be possible for it to be created without an assignee and have the status of 'unassigned'? thanks Darren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Thanks again for your post @Darren Rose. This was something that came up in development. Unfortunately due to the way that the platform tasks work, they are always required to have an assignee. This is why the task is assigned to you if you leave it as blank when you create it. I know we are due to revisit this area again for a host of other features so I will add this point to that discussion. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Rose Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Thanks, Alex. A common scenario for us is to have defined the tasks that need to be done (our backlog in effect), but we will only assign to a person to complete when we begin each sprint cycle. I think that's from me for today thanks for the swift replies Darren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 No problem. It's the same concept really in Service Manager when you are building your business processes. Many of our customers will assign a pre determined task to a role which in turn is then granted to a group of users, allowing any of them to complete it. You will see some similar logic implemented in Project Manager in the not too distant future. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Rose Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 Great. Thanks, @alextumber 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSheward_SGW Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Hi @alextumber Is there any movement on this, especially as it's now out of beta - it's really frustrating. Thanks, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSheward_SGW Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Also, not being able to filter Activities views (boards, lists etc.) based on tasks originating from Projects is also frustrating. Kind regards, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Hi @TSheward_SGW, thanks for your posts. Regarding assignment, are you wanting to assign project tasks to roles instead of project stakeholders? When you say filter Activity views based on tasks, are you talking about the ability to categorise tasks and/or the ability to distinguish which application a task/application has come from? Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSheward_SGW Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Hi @alextumber Thanks for coming back so quickly! Either being able to assign project tasks to roles or being able to leave the assignment field blank - either would fulfill our requirements. Again either being able to categorise the tasks or identify which application it came from would fulfill our requirements. At the moment to give my team a "Project Tasks" activity view I have to prefix every project task with an identifier which is a bit pants Also while we're on the subject, tasks linked to requests display a link and the request ID - project tasks do the same but my team don't have a list of project IDs. Yes of course they can click the link to find out but it would be nice to have the information at a glance by displaying the project name instead. Kind regards, Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 @TSheward_SGW no problem, thanks for the feedback. It is most welcome :-) I will pass on everything to our development and product teams. I can tell you that the ability to categorise project tasks is in active development so you should see that added very shortly, possibly in the next update. I will post back here when I have more updates to share. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSheward_SGW Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Fab, thanks Alex! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSheward_SGW Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Hi @AlexTumber has there been any movement on blank/role task assignment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Hi @TSheward_SGW . We have a change in active development where you can create tasks without owners/assignees. I will update this thread again when there is more information on this. Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSheward_SGW Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Thank you very much for the update @AlexTumber; look forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaj Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 22 hours ago, AlexTumber said: Hi @TSheward_SGW . We have a change in active development where you can create tasks without owners/assignees. I will update this thread again when there is more information on this. Alex Hi @AlexTumber that would be great and also help me with my other topic. When i create a project (in draft) with a template and tasks included... But also there should be a different if the project is in draft or active.. Thanks Nikolaj @AlexTumber yes that is right i´m the owner of, because i create the project via a template and there are tasks included. But After I create the Project i change the Project Manager and also the assigned tasks to the Project Manager who is responsibly for that project from that time on. And i cannot change the owner of a task. only if i create a new task. It would make sense when i change the project Manager and im not a Stakeholder any more of that project that also the owner will change automatically to the new project manager. Best regards Nikolaj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaj Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Hi @AlexTumber any news here? my list get bigger and bigger and that is a bit frustrating... Thanks Nikolaj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 @Nikolaj thanks for your post. This is still an area that we are working on and hope to have addressed soon. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaj Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Any News here? will it be possible also in the future to change the owner on existing tasks? thanks Nikolaj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaj Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 Hello @AlexTumber any news here? my list get bigger and bigger.... Thanks Nikolaj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTumber Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 @Nikolaj there is no news here at the moment unfortunately. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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