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Brass Contributor

Jul 10, 2020

How to Designate a SP Task List Field to Assign a Task

Hello All-- I've been an admin for older, on-prem versions of SP for many years but am relatively new to SPO. We're trying to migrate a user group off of a legacy version of SP onto SPO and I'm ...

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razor7tech

Brass Contributor

Jul 16, 2020

That's interesting--thanks. Do you happen to know what the default method for assigning a task item to an individual is for SP tasks lists?

Thanks again

Steven Andrews

Iron Contributor

Jul 16, 2020

razor7tech

I'm going from memory here but let's see where we go. Firstly in the list settings make sure that Advanced Settings --> Email Notification is turned on. When this has been activated any name that's provided to the Assigned To column should receive the email alert. This should work we creating a new List Item but sadly I can't recall if it fires for page edits.

I'm realllly hoping that's of some use for you!

razor7tech
Brass Contributor
Jul 16, 2020
Steven Andrews

I'm not seeing an Assigned To column. Do you have a screenshot you can share?

Thanks!
- Steven Andrews
  Iron Contributor
  Jul 18, 2020
  I don't have access to a WSS instance anymore I'm afraid but if you check the site settings and look under the list columns listing can you post a screenshot of that? One of those columns should correspond to a people picker, which I think would be a good candidate.
  - razor7tech
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 20, 2020
    Steven Andrews
    
    Hello--
    
    I'm talking about SPO. I don't see an Assigned To there. That's what I was hoping you could send a screenshot of.
    
    It's not looking like there is a straightforward way to assign a task to someone without using the alert me feature, or sharing the task item. Is that your understanding?