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"Fake" or virtual users
Sofia Borregaard
I would like to be allowed to assign a task to someone whom is not on click up, but is taking care of the task. It could be a company or a person where i would be able to create them under "users", give them a name and a picture, but not connect the user to anybody in clickup or anywhere ells. Users i create so that i can get an overview and remember who accepted to do a task.
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Marcel MAYR
Please Clickup team, take this request into account!
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Mariusz A.
has there ever been response from Clickup team on that?
Jaron Flynn
The user base explored/solved many different system options for this. It would be very helpful for tracking delegated work from 3rd parties.
Especially in times like this with quarantine remote teams continue growing in popularity... people want to be able to track accountability without having to drag a 3rd party into the process. Clickup doesn't always need to be shared in order to make progress on work. Shouldn't require more guests and invites. Allow sovereign use for the project managers...
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Marcos Adrián Orso
1.2k comments and not at least in planning state?
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Chris Osdick
To roll up this idea from many posts by folks. This concept actually solves at least three really important functions-
1) VIRTUAL USER- manage tasks and information with external users that will not be interacting with ClickUp. At a minimum necessary due to technical or relationship challenges.
2) VENDORS- managing tasks and information of external resources you are dependent on.
3) RESOURCES- non-people internal entities that tasks are assigned to. This is super functional (and critical) for ClickUp to be used in operations scheduling. e.g. printing press, paint booth, mill, etc.
At quick glance, it would seem these will all function just like regular users except-
a) assign them to an existing user as an owner instead of inviting them.
b) availability for resource management must be unique (as in the maligned Enterprise only user config)
c) add context to differentiate them from regular users e.g. unique categories in settings, different shape/style emoji thing.
Jaron Flynn
@Chris Osdick: Incredible system... The "Resources" Users can be accountable for repeatable hardware/software related assignments/processes as well.
Reg
I have multiple social media accounts (Dummy ones) and would love to allocate jobs when i am working with these accounts
David Daniels
I will second this and raise you... that it would also be great to notify such users without them having to become a "real" user, create an account, etc. Basecamp has such a feature.
Gavriel Fleischman
If we 'invite a guest' and they never accept will they still appear to be 'assigned' a task and future tasks?
Nick
Nick
Merged in a post:
Create "fake" ("dummy") users
Aliona
Some of the external teams or suppliers don't use the system but there are still tasks to assign to them (not for them to do but to keep everything in one place and make sure it's done). It's not comfy to assign it to yourself as when there are 2+ like those, you still need to recall who was assigned to it. It would be great to have a feature to create a "fake" user with a custom avatar so that tasks can be assigned to that icon and monitored by the board manager.
P.S. Hope there will be more teams who need this feature. I think it's more important for small teams and those who work with external service providers :(
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