New Feature: Assign to Groups

Submitted by clavileno on

Hi. We have many temporary staff and volunteers working in our office. It would be great if, as well as users, we could create the concept of a group of people. We would then like to be able to assign an issue to a group instead of a user.

So, as an example, we might have a group called "Painting Volunteers" indicating people who have volunteered to come and paint sections of our building. When one of them comes in for a day, they could log in, look for issues (i.e. tasks) assigned to the "Painting Volunteers" group, re-assign a task to themselves, and then get on with it.

At present it is possible to approximate this using lots of folders and leaving tasks unassigned, but that could get a bit complex.

You can simulate this by creating a drop down list attribute containing all possible groups as their values. Of course in that case you cannot select a single user OR a group in the same attribute, but it seems that in your case using two fields: Assigned To Person and Assigned To Group might be sufficient.

Regards,
Michał