New Feature: Assign Tasks to Multiple People
October 14th, 2008 by John Reeve
We’ve recently launched a new feature in Intervals — the ability to assign tasks to multiple people. This is useful for a few reasons. First, tasks that require a team effort can be more easily managed by a project manager. Second, other people can be kept in the loop throughout the life of a task, receiving email notifications as the task is updated (similar to a watch list in traditional issue tracking systems). Multiple assignees has been one of the top features requested by our customers, so we’ve made it available as a core feature of Intervals. And don’t worry if you are a one-assignee kind of task manager, the feature stays out of the way until you need it.
Screenshot of a task being assigned to multiple people
October 14th, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
July 22nd, 2009 @ 9:59 am
How are we able to manage parallel task status changes?
If I have an “Orientation”: task assigned to Rick and Greg, how can Greg set his status to V&C, and how does Rick let us know when he has completed his “Orientation” task.
Do I need to make duplicate tasks?!
It seems that multiple assignees doesn’t really account for the complexity of multiple workers completing their tasks asynchronously.
Suggestions?
July 22nd, 2009 @ 11:36 am
If a task is assigned to two people then they would both be modifying the status on the same task. If you want them to update seperate tasks, than yes, the task would need to be duplicated. We added this feature to Intervals mainly so that multiple assignees could be “kept in the loop” on certain tasks.
April 8th, 2010 @ 6:45 am