[Status: Not Planned] Changing the "Author" of a project

Hi, I would like to request that the "author" of a project can be changed. It seems at the moment, once someone creates a project, they are the "author" and it cannot be changed.

Sometimes the person who starts a project isn't always the person who is responsible for the project. For example, if someone is on a holiday when the project begins, a different person will create the schedule than the person who is the true owner of the schedule. Once the vacation is over, and the rightful project manager takes the project over, they aren't considered the author.

We also have our dashboards set up so we can monitor the tasks of our projects. But I don't see an easy way to follow the tasks of a project that you own, only if you are the author.

 

 

 

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So here is a totally new use case which I have not seen brought up.

New employee.  The wrike account is added by automation between AD, Okta, and Wrike.  On initial IT Account creation, the email address had a typo.  Between initial entry and correcting the typo, the new employee entered tasks.  Now that the email address changed, we have an author for an invalid email address.

There is no way I see to correct this without being able to change Author. 

I realize the importance of tracking task/project history, and I have to agree that the reasons I have seen so far do not justify changing author, but in my case it should be up to the admin. 

I also have to agree, that if admin wants to change a setting, it should be allowed.  Track it in a log file, but not necessarily in the task history as this causing problems for latest change.

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Jared Barden, I’m very sorry for missing your comment! If you’re still experiencing the issue, please feel free to reach out to your CSM or contact our Support Team as they’ll be able to assist you further.
 
Joel Jensen, thank you for taking the time to share your use case with us in detail. We’ll make sure your feedback is forwarded to the Product Team.

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No feedback on this topic ?

I have the same trouble importing multiple project, i use dashboard plugin base on project author. When could we have this feature available (disable by default on the whole space)

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Hi Julien Dubois! Currently, this is not in the plans, but we will be sure to share an update if the status changes in the future. I have passed your feedback on to our team. Thank you! 👍🏽

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