Problem: How to assign multiple users to a single task?

Hello everyone!

I need help from anyone who has encountered this issue. We have a client request to prepare a legal opinion. Several users can work on the task. How should I properly create a Project or Task so that the reports show the name of each employee who worked on the task?

At the moment, the Client has a “User” or “Assigned User” field. However, only one user can be indicated in these fields, not multiple.

The bigger question is: how to organize work in Invoice Ninja when several people work on the same project, and a report is needed for each person’s work on the project?

Hi,

I think you’d need to break down each task so each user is assigned their part.

Thanks for the idea, but I don’t understand how to:

  • Each user creates a task within the project and adds their time.
  • But when a task report is generated, there’s no column for the user’s name.

I see that when creating a task, it’s possible to assign a user name. It’s unclear why this name isn’t displayed in the task report.

If each user creates their own tasks you could use the created by column in the tasks report.

Hm… I can’t find such a field in the tasks report when I choose 'Customize Columns.

The column should be available in the desktop/mobile app.

Feel free to create an issue on GitHub to request the column be added to the web app.

Did I understand correctly that in the web version, the ‘created by’ column cannot be displayed? And it’s better to create an issue on GitHub?

Yes, I believe that’s correct

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Thanks a lot! Done!
Hope it will be fixed

After several days of testing, I can say that using the service within a team is quite difficult. Either I haven’t fully figured it out, or I would appreciate some help.

What issues have we encountered?

If we create a timesheet with analytics by employees, the “User” field in each task needs to specify the employee (it’s not possible to assign multiple employees). In that case, you can see the “Created by” column in the Task report.

However, this creates another problem. In order for the employee to only see their own tasks, their role is set so that they don’t have permissions to view others’ tasks. But then, they can’t select themselves in the “User” field when creating a task.

Has anyone encountered this issue?

Why does the user need to select themselves? The app will automatically set them as the created by user.

Thank you very much for the quick response!

I thought this field had to be filled out. By the way, it seems that if you assign the task to another employee, this mechanism would be quite limited.