Delegate tasks

The assignees field designates the task owners. A task can be assigned to multiple users at the same time. The assignees can be changed by the owner of the task, the creator of the task and the project owners of the project that contains the task.

Each person’s set of assigned tasks will appear in their My Tasks list.

 

Assign a Task

Using the people picker

To assign a task to a team member:

• Select the task
• Click the user(s) next to the assignees icon on the task details pane
• Toggle the users you would like to add or remove as assignee
• Use the search functionality to search for a specific user
• Click the Done button when you're ready

To remove someone from the list of assignees:

• Select the task
• Click the user(s) next to the assignees icon on the task details pane
• Toggle the selected user to remove that user from the list of assignees

If you remove all assignees, the task will be listed as unassigned. This is useful if you don't know yet who will become responsible for a task or if you want to offer a list of tasks to your team members that they can select from when they have time available. When a user picks a task he or she adds him or herself as assignee of the task.

Using drag & drop

You can assign a task to a user using drag & drop as well:

• Change the grouping of your task list to By Assigned To using the view selector
• Drag a task from one user to another user to change the assignee of the task