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Shared Lists within ToDo - change owner
I setup some shared lists for the organisation during various Covid lockdowns and they are working really well however I am still the owner of them and I want to leave the lists to the people who are actually doing the work. How can I change the owner of a shared list please? In this case it's because I am not responsible for any of the work but could just as easily be because I was leaving the organisation so we need a way of moving a list to someone else?
- I have the same problem! Did this ever get sorted out?
- No sadly not
There is a way to solve this. I did this. Here are the steps to do this.
Suppose Sarah (Owner) has created a To Do List - ProjectABC with 10 Tasks in it. This is currently shared with another person - Manu
1. Request Manu to create a new list in HIS To Do account - ProjectABCNew
2. Now, Manu has access to both the lists - ProjectABC (owned and created by Sarah) and ProjectABC (owned and created by Manu).
3. Manu can right-click on a Task (or select multiple tasks), right click and use move function to move the tasks from ProjectABC to ProjectABCNew.
4. Above steps work better on To Do Web or Laptop/Desktop. Its a little painful to do this on mobile App
5. Depending on the number of Tasks in a List, it will take a few seconds to a minute or two to update.
Hope you found this useful.
The problem with moving tasks to a new list is that the person who was assigned the task is lost. Does anyone have a better solution?
- this should be realitively easy I would have thought ?
1) check thatt he current Assigned owner of the task is also a member of the Moving To list
2) if so, retain Task assignment
3). If not, do as it currently does and null down the Assigned To field
