Assigning resources to tasks

Multiple order assignment

Multiple orders are assigned form: Sales > Sales dashboard > Tasks page

In the “Tasks” page, click the “Change range” button (fig 4) and create a range to display the orders you want to assign. You can filter the range by any value you find suitable: order number, title, series, etc. (fig 5).

If not all tasks from the order range are displayed in the “Tasks” tab, try clicking “All tasks” (fig 2) to show the missing tasks.

The advantage of assigning multiple orders from the “Tasks” page is that each line is one task from the range which makes it easy to quickly assign resources, one by one, to the different tasks.

You can use the 2 assigning methods mentioned above: Quick in-line assigning (fig 1) or Assigning from the “Task Edit” page (fig 2), in addition, there are three bulk assigning tools.

Bulk assigning tools

Assign all

This tool will assign the same resource to all the same tasks in the range, on the current page.
Same task meaning the same task type (i.e Translation, QC, etc..) and the same source and target language combination (i.e English to Spanish).

1. Use the In-line assign method to assign the resource to the required task (fig 1) (i.e English into Spanish Translation task).

2. Click “Assign all” (fig 2).

All same tasks on the current page will be assigned to the same resource. If you have more than one page, click “Assign all” once for every page, or expand the number of items per page. Make sure to revert to the default items per page to optimize the page’s performance.

Note: This will also change the assignment of assigned resources to the new resource

To minimize the results so they will be displayed on one page you can use “Change range” (fig 1) or column title filtering (fig 2) to only display the task type you want to assign and then click “Assign all” (fig 3).

This tool will assign the same resource to all the same tasks in the order range (meaning all pages), and not only on the current page as the “Assign all” tool that was introduced in the previous example.

1. Set the range so only the required tasks are displayed on the screen.

2. Click the “Task Edit” (fig 1) button of the task you want to assign.

3. Select the resource from the Resource pull-down menu (fig 2).

4. At the bottom of the “Task Edit” page, click “Assign to all same tasks in the range”

5. Click “Assign” (fig 1) to assign all the unassigned same tasks in the range.

6. To replace the resource in assigned tasks with the new selected resource, set the “Also Replace the assignment of assigned same tasks” switch to on (fig 1).

7. Click “Assign” (fig 2).

8. Close the “Task Edit” page (fig 3.

9. Click “Refresh” on the tasks page to show the new assignments (fig 4).

Assign same resource

Assign a resource to only some of the same tasks in the range

This tool enables you to assign all same tasks in the range to different resources.
Same task meaning the same task type (i.e Translation, QC, etc..) and the same source and target language combination (i.e English to Spanish).

1. To better understand the functionality, filter the “Task” column to only display the required task (fig 1).

2. In-line assign the first resource to the task (fig 2).

3. Once assigned, the “Assign same resource” column will be populated with buttons next to each same task (fig 3).

4. Click the “Assign same resource” buttons of the tasks you want to assign to this resource (fig 4-5)

   
   

5. Next, in-line assign the next task to the second resource and repeat the action as mentioned above.

   
   

6. Repeat the actions until all tasks are assigned.

Assign same resource to different types of tasks

1. Start by setting up a range to only see the tasks you want to assign on the Tasks tab of Sales dashboard. Set additional fields, if necessary.

2. Then, click “Task info”, of any of the tasks.

3. Select the resource and click “Assign all tasks in the range”.

4. Click “Assign” again.

The result, all tasks in the range have been assigned to the selected resource: