# Automatically reassign ongoing conversation based on availability

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatically-reassign-ongoing-conversation-based-on-availability/105996>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** conversations-inbox\
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatically-reassign-ongoing-conversation-based-on-availability/105996 "2024-04-29T11:41:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![DAarnink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@DAarnink](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DAarnink)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatically-reassign-ongoing-conversation-based-on-availability/105996/1 "2024-04-29T11:41:22Z")

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Now when an agent is on holiday, he/she can still receive assigned conversations. Because he was already the owner of this conversation. As a result, the other team members may overlook this conversation.  
In fact, it should be the case that if an agent is set to away, he will no longer be assigned a single conversation, even if he was already working on with the conversation. If a customer then responds to a previously assigned conversation, that conversation should be reassigned to an agent who is available.

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**Author:** ![RBozeman](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/rbozeman/32/8786_2.png) [@RBozeman](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RBozeman)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatically-reassign-ongoing-conversation-based-on-availability/105996/2 "2024-05-17T18:21:29Z")

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Hey @DAarnink,

This may be possible through Workflows. You could, in theory, have a Workflow that unassigns the ocntact at the end of the assigned owners workday. Of course this does not deal with mid-day unavailability but it gets you halfway there.

Do these conversations generate tickets? If so, you could potentially use [Insycle’s support ticket availability](https://blog.insycle.com/support-rep-availability-hubspot) features, which allow you to set working hours. You can toggle users away/available for unexpected availability, and add future dates of unavailability, such as vacation days or conference days. Full disclosure, I work for Insycle, but the availability features are great there. I can check on whether we are able to interface with conversations here.

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**Author:** ![DAarnink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@DAarnink](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DAarnink)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatically-reassign-ongoing-conversation-based-on-availability/105996/3 "2024-05-22T08:18:01Z")

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Hi @RBozeman,

Thanks for your idea!

About the workflow, do you mean that all conversations will be unassigned at the end of the day? So that means that when a customer replies to an email send the day before, another agent can be assigned to that email, eventhough the agent who replied first is available?

We only work from the conversation inbox, not with tickets. So that won’t be an option unfortunatelly.

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**Author:** ![Jleyson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@Jleyson](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jleyson)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatically-reassign-ongoing-conversation-based-on-availability/105996/4 "2024-09-05T04:13:18Z")

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This would also be perfect for tickets in helpdesk for those who do customer support. This is one of the intercom feature that we totally missing. Can you please consider this?
