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jacqueline88

Changing Organizer when Creating a Meeting

Being that we are a company and we have all of our co-workers calendars visible on our ends too, sometimes when we're done with a session and are going to schedule the client for their next training it may very well not be with the specialist they are currently meeting with because they may not be available. So what we would do is put the client with the next available specialist. When I'm accessing the company's profile and adding the session on the calendar it attaches it to my calendar. I want to be able to change the organizer when I open up that meet window and attach it to the correct organizer. 

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johnwilliamcook
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This is...strange. I can't change the rep to whom the meeting is assigned? I have to delete it and create a new one, as well as send all of these updates to the customer?

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Olivia_Englert
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Running into the exact same issue John Cook is...no ability to change who the meeting is assigned to in HubSpot. This makes reporting off if a meeting is reassigned to another individual.

slepoidevin
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@jacqueline88 I have a similar issue and I have a workaround for this (although it is not perfect, it is working for me for now).

 

I have created a "Call and Meeting Type" for each individual who is booking meetings (these are SDRs on my team). So, for example, I have "Meeting Type 1 - SDR Name" and "Meeting Type 1 - SDR Name 2" etc. 

Then I have each rep use that meeting type in their meetings links so that all meetings are automatically set to that type. And, if I need to change who the meeting is "assigned to" I just change the Call and Meeting Type to the one with that rep's name. 

 

The reason I use this type field is that it is not visible on the client's end, since I use it just for my own tracking.

 

A little janky, but it's something.

GBallard
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@slepoidevin 

 

Sorry Im a little confused on your work around can you provide me with any more detail or screen shots?

slepoidevin
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@GBallard sure!

 

First, you go to Settings > CRM > Call & Meeting Types and create a meeting "type" for each SDR:

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Then, the SDR creates a meeting link (Sales > Meetings > Create meeting link > Details tab > Meeting type) using that "type" in their meeting link so that the resulting meeting uses their "type," regardless of who the meeting is "assigned to" in Hubspot (our meeting links are round robin types that rotate between multiple AEs, so the meeting is assigned to the AE but the SDR gets credit).

 

Although the result meeting should have the right type, if you need to change the meeting type manually, can do so on the activity record without any notifications being sent to the prospect:

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And to report on the SDR-sourced meetings, all you need to do is create an Activity report and filter by "Meeting Type".

GBallard
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@slepoidevin you are awesome and just to double-check. This will change the organizer of the meeting. so it appears on the new person's calendar while also putting them in charge of the meeting? Or is this mainly just for internal use of running reports on how many meetings were done by who.

slepoidevin
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@GBallard good question! Unfortunately, this is just for internal use, it does not change the owner of the meeting.

 

There is no way to easily change the organizer of a meeting in Hubspot BUT I did find a workaround if you use Google Calendar (will probably work with other calendars too, but only tested with Google) - basically, if you change the meeting owner in Google Calendar it updates in Hubspot automatically.

 

I shared some instructions on how we do ownership reassignments here if helpful: https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Create-meetings-for-other-team-members-assign-meeting...

BBush1
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yes have been trying to accompish this ... someone creates the meeting adn able to assign it to another hubspot user... just like tickets which has this capability 

CAxisTech
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yes we need the meeting re-assignment feature

MrBean
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@slepoidevin has the correct approach-- Change ownership through the Calendar integration-- 

 

Meetings/activities have two properties:


Activity Created By
Activity Assigned To

Although you can't edit these properties within hubspot, you can indirectly by editing ownership of the actual event on your calendar. 'Activity Created By' is set based on who creates the meeting. 
 
However, to edit 'Activity Assigned To' of the desired meeting, change ownership of the event on your calendar (ie google/exchange). If the integration is setup correctly, then once the recieving party accepts ownership, that meeting's 'Activity Assigned To' property will be updated accordingly. 
 
I think this is better than allowing users to manually change ownership of meetings through HS.
TNapierski
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First, I'm shocked that HubSpot does not have a more effective way to report on who set the meeting vs. who held the meeting. One of the most common practices in Sales is to have a team of SDRs our there setting meetings that will be held by AEs. It's foolish to not have a solution for reporting on the set vs. hold of the meeting. 

 

Setting the above aside, we tried the calendar change (ownership) option but I didn't like that they had to reassign ownership and then notify the AE so they could accept the ownership change by clicking the link in the google email. Too many dependencies there and we saw a few errors early on. 

 

We chose to modify our process and ask AEs to "Log a Meeting" after every meeting held. I then built reporting to show meetings set by SDR (excluding AEs) and then meetings held by AE (excluding SDRs). I don't love either option but this seems to be a cleaner solution since we're reporting only on the following:

 

SDR: Activities (Call, email, LI, Vidyard), meetings set, & pipeline generated

 

AD: Meetings Held & Deal creation (pipeline created)

 

I REALLY hope HubSpot solves for this soon -- it is so fundamental it's truly shocking they don't have a solution.

Qwiek
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Same issue here. Please let people choose another user as organiser. 

NPW
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Hello All,

 

Please upvote the following thread, as it has more votes and is more likely to gain traction: https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Change-Contact-Owner-if-Meeting-Booked/idi-p/184781

JakeKnight
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