# select contact owner directly from within forms

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/select-contact-owner-directly-from-within-forms/52026>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** forms\
**Created:** [February 23, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/select-contact-owner-directly-from-within-forms/52026 "2022-02-23T15:56:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Mehlich](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/daniel_mehlich/32/63860_2.png) [@Daniel\_Mehlich](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Daniel_Mehlich)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/select-contact-owner-directly-from-within-forms/52026/1 "2022-02-23T15:56:16Z")

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In HubSpot when automatically assigning contacts the best way to do this is currently the workflow tool.

However some customer would like to restrict certain users from certain contacts and set their permissions to “owned only” this however causes those contacts to be visible to the other users for a short time.

It would be really helpful to have the ability to assign contact owners directly from within froms.

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**Author:** ![vsping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9f8e36/32.png) [@vsping](https://community.hubspot.com/u/vsping)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 11:16am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/select-contact-owner-directly-from-within-forms/52026/2 "2024-11-27T11:16:07Z")

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I agree this would be useful for us as well. We would use this when our sales reps are on third party events that they could fill out a form with the prospects information and add themselves as the contact/lead owner.