Add people to a project outside of your organization....

How can you think to add the person to the project if doesn't have email? 

Andrea Rosales "Gracias por existir Ctrl+Z"

Let the software to add a user, and leave the email field blank.  Currently you cannot add someone to Wrike without a valid email.  No email, then nothing gets set.  However, you would have a contact, with an avatar that you can tag to certain folders / projects.

So your point "This would be used as a reference point to keep things up to date without sending emails to the person tagged in the project" means that you only want to see the name of the person... uhm... 

Have you try to add that person and say to her/him that turn off all the notifications?  I know this doesn't resolve your problem but I can understand why you need an email... you "have" to notificate something

Andrea Rosales "Gracias por existir Ctrl+Z"

Think of it as more of a Tag.  The user does not want nor need an email.  Their companies do not use Wrike, but they are the person in OUR project designated to get the task completed.  Asking a user "Hey, we use this software and really like it. It will send you emails from time to time, but can you just turn them off or ignore the message?" seems a little far fetched and, I personally would not ask a business partner to do this... its just not very professional.

A much more practical position would be to allow the email field to remain blank.  Create the assignee so the item can be tagged and communication could be handled only when needed.

yeah, I get it, we try that with our clients but they accepted the invitation (because he could follow up the progress of the project) and I gave them a training.  BUT   you can manage her/him notifications from "account management" by "login in as user" and turn off... :D

I completely understand  you :)

Andrea Rosales "Gracias por existir Ctrl+Z"

Hey,

I do share your need.
Right now, I created a custom Workflow status "External Execution in progress", but I have to write a comments to know who should be in charge, even externally. I do not want to manage a collaborator nor external uses for them.

I would love to be able to use your idea to virtually assign the task to a virtual identified assignee.

Hi! I also have this requirement - has anyone figured out a way yet?

Well for those in construction who are 60 years old I doubt if we are going to get them to open an email account. Not being able to add a contact or sub contractor w/ out an email address basically makes this negates our ability to use it. 

Hey everyone, apologies for the delay in response here.

According to the Product team, there are currently no plans to implement this suggestion into Wrike. If anything changes, I'll be sure to let you know.

Hello-- Has there been any further development in this case since the last response? This is a downfall in Wrike environment that our team has built and would love a solution. 

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