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Default Assignee for new ideas (by category)

With the introduction of categories in the ideas portal, it would be great to have a default assignee by category. This would override and default assignee on the product.

Release time frame 6 months
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    May 8, 2023

    Customers on the Ideas Advanced or Enterprise+ plan can use automation rules to streamline a variety of tasks in Aha!, including assigning ideas based on category.

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    • Elliot Golden
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      Jan 31, 2023

      As a newer leader for an enterprise software org, we make great use of the categories, though we are struggling to get the team to review items that are not assigned to them. The options are to mass assign using Lists or hand assign/bug the team regularly. The auto assign by category would be a massive "quality of life" improvement for us at Unanet!

    • Vered Yosub
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      Mar 24, 2022

      As suggested in the response from May 11, 2021, we enabled automation, however this solution is not scalable for large number of categories and hard to maintain, I would suggest to add in the categories entity an assignee field which will be the default assignee to the Idea

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      Kelly Sebes
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      Feb 11, 2020

      We got a little over-excited and changed the status on this idea earlier than intended. Stay tuned for more details this week.

    • Guest
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      Dec 16, 2019

      Really need this feature. I work with a team of 20+ PMs and find is difficult to have to assign the ideas to each person on my own on a regular basis

    • Danny Carvajal
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      Jan 16, 2019

      Really need this! Currently, we are having to regularly bulk edit ideas by category to assign them to a list of 20 product managers. This really should be automated. I feel silly doing the same task every week when it can so easily be handled through automation.

    • Guest
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      Jul 21, 2018

      Hello! Assigning Ideas by Category would be very impactful for my company as JIRA currently allows us to do it by component. Time frame says 6mo - when was that assigned? Thank you!

    • Guest
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      Dec 15, 2016

      Hi there, so we have an ETA on when this would be launched? This would be huge for our company. Thanks!

    • Guest
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      Dec 15, 2016


      This capability is growing in urgency/importance to run our business smoothly and to make sure we're being responsive to our customers' ideas.  We're taking a responsiveness hit without it.

      For more on problem statement see merged idea >>  https://big.ideas.aha.io/ideas/APP-I-3470

    • Guest
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      Nov 18, 2016

      This would help my Product Managers enormously as our product is divided by category with a responsible PM assigned. Have you considered also having some form of notification to the default assignee or assignees. For example, having the ability to request email notification on the creation of an idea in a specific category. 

    • Guest
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      Sep 16, 2016

      This would be a huge help for our team

    • Charlene Brennan
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      Dec 14, 2015

      We have our HCM product managed my module.  We identify the module in Aha! by using a custom field.  It would be more efficient for each product owner to have only the ideas pertaining to their module coming to their email.  As it is, we have it set up where all product owners receive all ideas and filter out their ideas for a response.

    • Magalie Allard
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      Mar 12, 2015

      Hey! Did you look at adding this feature?

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      Chris Waters
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      Oct 15, 2014

      Thanks for the suggestion. Categories for ideas are a brand new concept in Aha!, but I can see how assigning by category would be really useful.

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