In this section, we’ll explore how to assign tasks to stakeholders and track their progress using the comments thread. Monitoring task status with terms like ‘Resolved', ‘Open', etc. ensures clear communication and efficient collaboration, especially when managing inputs from multiple stakeholders. You can achieve this with EDITable, which can help your team with accountability and improve workflow efficiency.
1. Assign tasks
Let's add a column-level comment and assign it as a task. Select a column and click on Add a comment.
Select column and add comment
Enter a comment. Click on the 'Assign a user' dropdown.
Assign a user - option
From the dropdown, select the desired user.
Assigning a user
After selecting the user, click Post to post the comment. The status is set to 'Open'.
Post the comment
The task gets assigned.
Task gets assigned
2. Task status
By default, on assigning a task, it is set to 'Open'. To change the task status, click on the 'three dots' and select Resolve thread.
Resolve thread
The thread is marked as resolved, as shown below.
Task set to resolved
Resolved tasks can be reopened if required by clicking on the 'Undo' icon. Alternatively, replying to any resolved thread will automatically make it open again.
Reopening a resolved task
Comments added in the comments column can also be assigned as tasks. Select a comment and assign it to a user.
Assign tasks in the comments column
By clicking on the arrow highlighted, you can expand/collapse the task status and assignee columns. Based on the selection in the comments editor, these columns get populated automatically.
Click this arrow to expand
The status and assignee can be viewed in the columns as below. These columns are available when you enable the comments column and add comments to it.
Task status and assignee columns
In the next section, we'll cover how you can track task status and changes for all comments.
