Reassigning Tasks Automatically

[JRobertshaw]

Hi All, 

We have a situation where one contact owner might either be on leave or has a too large workload and needs to assign a new opportunity to a new owner, which is pretty straight forward. 

However when a new opportunity is created in our deal pipeline it automatically creates a task for the original owner to contact the client. It would be good to create a workflow where if the contact owner is changed the task is also reassigned to the new owner. 

Does anyone have a solution for this? 

[jxlio]

Personally, I set up an automation thru Airtable and Zapier to do this, it's a major workaround, but it essentially recreates the task and assigns it to the new owner, then deletes the original task. Airtable holds a backup so nothing is lost. If this gets reply gets 50 upvotes, I will write out a tutorial and publish it on Medium or something.

[DHill5]

Definitley a capability that is sorely needed. Kind of ridiculus that no one considered the need to align task ownership with lead ownershp. 

[AStretten]

Again, why is this not a default option. We have 12 users with 1500 task and its poor planning that you cannot reallocate a task when the owner of a contact changes. Please get this sorted asap

[DianaGomez]

Hi @AStretten hope you are doing well.

I understand that this could be very beneficial, that's why I want to encourage you to vote for the idea, this way it would have more chances to be implemented in the future. You can also follow the threat of the idea, so you will receive the updated status.

Best, 

Diana

[ErikStromness]

This is a workaround but it is not a solution. Capability to do mass task reassignment within a workflow needs to be created. 

[karstenkoehler · Accepted solution]

Hi @JRobertshaw,

At this stage, tasks cannot be enrolled in workflows, which means that it's not possible to automatically assign tasks from one user to another.

Luckily, there is an option to bulk update multiple tasks to a new owner. Navigate to Menu > Sales > Tasks and select the user under "No assignee":

Once this filter is active, select all tasks:

Click Edit, select Assignee and choose who the tasks should now be assigned to:

There isn't any out-of-the-box option to re-assign these tasks to the new owners of the deals. You could review your deal-based workflow that is creating the tasks and whether you could set up re-enrollment: You could add "Deal owner is known" as an enrollment trigger and active re-enrollment based on that criterion.

HubSpot interprets "known" as "has changed", too, so the deals would re-enroll once the owner changes and the tasks would be created anew. You could then find the old owner's tasks and delete them.

(The workflow can of course only be change if it's only creating tasks, not if there is any other automation happening that you do not want to repeat, e.g. internal or external notifications.)

Hope this helps!