Virtual Assignee
Jack Hatfield
It would be great to be able to assign tasks to virtual people in order to better categorise and track tasks which are the responsibility of people who are not members or guests within ClickUp. This could be a generic "others" assignee or perhaps better still a virtual assignee which can be customised to suit each task (e.g. it may be an organisation name on one task or a person's name on another). In that way the task can still sit within our task lists and be sorted and filtered, despite there being no actual person linked to it.
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Caroline Ginty
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Add assignee without sending invite
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Tommy Sharkey
I want to add people to tasks without inviting them to the project. A few reasons here
- some people I don't have emails for
- some people I don't want poking around in the project plan
- my personal projects where I want to mention someone, but don't want to invite them.
Hacky work arounds
- use name@fakeemail.com to add people. However, this doesn't make them persist across tasks and I have to add each time. This also means I can't filter or look up by user. It just looks ugly and messy. If by random chance the email exists and someone accepts the invite its a huge security concern
- creating tags/labels for each person. This works fine except all of the assignee specific filtering tools don't work. E.g. I had to make my own dashboard widget that uses tags to filter by user. Also mixes users in with other tags which is messy.
What I want:
To be able to just type someone's name into the assignee field. If someone with that name already exists (whether an active account or just a virtual user), add that existing name. If they don't exist, offer to invite them, but allow me to not invite or provide an email - let me just add an arbitrary name that isn't linked to anything.
Caroline Ginty
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Assignee Placeholder
Alex Howard
[From Support Ticket]
Hi, Can I assign tasks to a person or resource who has not be "invited"? That is, we don't need to give them access to ClickUp, but do want to plan their work.
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Jan Albert Zalewski
this is neat idea and it could be used for placeholders in templates and their further remapping
Yaqoub Aboalhasan
YES, PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE. This would be a game changer. Also if these "people" could be actually a directory contatct entry to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. So save a person/companies contact information and be able to be added as an assignee
Caroline Ginty
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Assignees without ClickUp
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Briana Li-Vidal
It would be helpful to be able to add assignees by name without needing to "invite" them to ClickUp or connect to their ClickUp account.
Melanie von Schorlemer
this would be helpful. We often assign placeholder resources when we don't know the person who will do the task. We need this to be able to calculate the budget.
Ivan Villa
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Third party assignees
Selwyn van Diermen
I would like to be able to set third party names that need to be assigned to task.
Right now you can only add assignees who are part of your workspace but in case you want to write down the name of a third party member you need to add a new text column in order to do this. This should work better in the assignee column
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Kenicia Ricketts Gunn
I am new to clickup and this would be a great add!
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Louise Chapman
We just need the ability to be able to assign tasks to people who wont be accessing click up so we can still see who it is allocated to on the plan
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Louise Chapman
Agree we need to be able to assign tasks to people who do not use click up, they do not need to be invited but we still have sight on the plan that it is allocated to them!
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