[Status: Backburner ⌛️] Assign User Groups

Hi Germain Krueger, welcome to the Community and thank you for taking the time to share your feedback here. I'm passing it on to our team. 

Upvoting the request to assign projects to GROUPS. Our Creative Team could benefit from this feature. 

Hi Sarah Rhein, welcome to the Community! Thank you for sharing your feedback, we can see the positive impact this feature could have on Wrike's usability. I will pass your feedback on to our Product Development Team. Looking forward to seeing your comments and ideas in future posts! 

Hello team,

This feature will make an easier management of requests, blueprints, and so on. It will be really easy to prepare blueprints for the team rather than for individual members. When a complex blueprint/request/template is created, it's hard to change it if a team member leaves or we have a new team member.

Wrike team, are there any updates on this request? I agree with all the comments above and have upvoted accordingly.

Haley, sorry to say after 6 years and close to 300 up votes, it doesn't look like this is going anywhere. Wrike has devoted all their attention to the rounded corners in the UI instead of making core product enhancements. The classic lipstick on a pig scenario.  If you can, get out now! We're leaving Wrike at the end of our contract and encourage you and anyone else to do the same.

Hi folks, thank you for your continuous feedback here.

I understand it can be frustrating that an idea that you're interested in isn't planned by our team. Please rest assured that we pass on, discuss, and report on all feedback we receive here. Our Product team can't commit to working on all or even most of the suggestions shared in this forum, but some of them do get implemented (you can check the list of Community-generated ideas released last year in this post).

Our team is currently concentrating on Wrike Lightspeed, while also releasing updates for automation, and analytics (check out the new Chart view if you haven't yet). I hope you find these useful.

We will let you know if there are any changes in relation to this idea to assign user groups. Thank you again for sharing your feedback. 

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Just ran into this issue. Can't beleive this is not implemented. Петко Ангелов summarizes it perfectly.

Welcome to the forums Ádám Hornyák, and thank you for supporting the suggestion to assign user groups. As I mentioned recently, this suggestion couldn't be prioritised due to other planned and highly anticipated enhancements. At the same time, we continue bringing this topic with our Product team, so please rest assured your feedback won't go unnoticed.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with 🙋

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Adding in my vote here as well. 

Thanks for weighing in here Michelle McMillen, we've passed your interest on 👍

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Upvoting. Competition has it even with unique functions. 

On Monday you can assign entire team/group to a single task and when time comes (task must be done actually) it will actually do a round robin assignment based on a members of assigned team/group.

Hi Łukasz Marek, welcome to the Community 👋

Could you please share a bit more detail on your use case (e.g. in which scenario you'd need to assign a group and how the members of the group would split ownership of the task)? 

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If we could already assign a group (my team or everyone) and that assigns each person in this group, that would save time. Example, I create the task of the whole team meeting, I have to assign the 35 employees one by one, painful...

Whoops! I searched for this topic yesterday but didn't find it, so I created a new post here:

https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/21019464454039-Allow-tasks-and-projects-to-be-assigned-to-a-group-instead-of-an-individual-user?page=1#community_comment_21042999905431

That's now a duplicate that could be deleted, I guess. Today I found this post which I see has 343 upvotes and was initially proposed years ago. Here is what I posted yesterday:

We occasionally have turnover -- who doesn't? There are 10 people in my department, and of the general tasks that are assigned to all of them, I would greatly prefer if I could assign our Wrike user group instead, then make changes to that group if there are changes in the department instead of deleting and reassigning individual users to every task in our shared workspace. Being able to do this would greatly increase my efficiency. 

This is similar to another request in the Community for this same functionality when a new request form is submitted and individual users are auto-assigned to the resulting task:

https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360018645053-Assigning-tasks-projects-to-groups-via-request-forms

In the same way, if a Wrike user group could be assigned to the (request form) task, and to redirects within the request form, this would make inevitable changes in personnel vastly easier and faster to manage.

Thank you,

Michelle

Thank you Serge Herviou Michelle! I can see how this option would be beneficial, I've passed your comments on to our relevant team 👍

We're going on 7 years  and 5 pages of requests for this being passed to the development team for consideration. Is this ever going to happen? Clearly a lot of your customers would benefit from this.

Lisa The easiest examples: I have a team of five 3D artists and my company is actively working on ~2-5 big projects at a time. These projects are ~2000+ tasks/subtasks each. 3D team participates in about ~20% of the total tasks. These projects are starting independently of eachother and while I was doing it on Monday, I could just assign entire 3D-team to a single task and when time to actual task was ready to be started (3D-team can't do anything before certain things happen) everybody in 3D-team was getting a notification, including 3D-team manager. From this moment they had ~2 hours to assign a specific person amongst themselves and re-assign a task to that specific person. When they didn't, the round robin assignment was triggered - either a random person or the person with the least amount of workload at the time was assigned automatically (this was setting specific).

This gives a lot of flexibility, I can start a project today and not have to worry about specific 3D-team assignments when time comes to do something by them in a week or two.

When I'm starting a project like this on Wrike, I have to assign a 3D-team-manager specifically, so he decides manually who will be re-assigned to that task, when time to start this task actually comes. The thing is: this can happen either in a week or in a month - depending how quickly preceding tasks will be actually finished.

This feature has been specifically requested by our team.

We need a way to indicate a task is assigned to the correct team without it getting lost in one person's "to-do's" since it could be picked up by anyone on the team. It would be really tedious to assign all members of our configuration team for each task they own within each project.

Throwing another request for this in here, as our usecase is a little different.  We've set up an internal knowledgebase using a Wrike Space, and my gosh it'd be lovely to be able to assign individual tasks/knowledgebase articles to a team/department.

Right now, we either need to assign them all manually, or rely on the team finding them in a shared folder/Space.  The first is time-consuming, and the second allows for individual user error.

Hence, assigning a task to a group, just makes sense.

Hi folks! We have some good news: our team has released the ability to assign to user groups through automation. We'll be announcing the release in the coming days, but you can test this new feature already:

We're looking forward to your feedback on this! 

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Exciting! This might be the first time I've seen a happy post on one of these long-suggested items! THANK YOU WRIKE for doing it!! Looking forward to trying it out!

Agreed that it's exciting development.

Lisa - are there plans to implement it through the normal interface?

Lisa , if you add this functionality to the other places, such as workflows and blueprints, it will be perfect!

I agree with Jarod and Петко, hopefully this is the first release of the functionality and that we will be able to assign groups to tasks manually through the normal interface.

Thanks for getting this far though!

Hi folks, thanks a lot for sharing your feedback on this addition! 

By the way, the full post with details on how this works is here 📌

No plans to introduce this feature outside of automation at the moment, but we'll continue sending your feedback to the team. We hope that being able to assign user groups through automation is still a welcome update 🙂

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I think this would be really helpful in planning and resourcing. We could assign a general group/dept a task or project and during the discussion/planning/daily stand-up. That group/dept can see what tasks are assigned to said group and appropriately assign to a specific person. 

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Just looked into this and was surprised to find i could not directly add a task to a group...  Also found this post which has been active since 2018....  The automation assignment to groups is kinda a shoe-horned approach.  Would really like to see the ability to directly assign a task to a group so tasks don't die with an individual.

I agree with David Williams. Since my original post here I have tried using the Automation workaround and have found it clunky compared to being able to directly assign a Wrike user group directly to a task or project. I'd like to be able to have different Wrike groups established according to which projects certain people would be working on regularly, then I could assign those groups instead of having to assign 5-10 different individuals from my team to each project... this would save a lot of time of searching out individual names and trying to remember who is supposed to be working on what, etc.