When creating a task in Teamleader Focus you can assign it to yourself, a colleague, a team or to no one in particular. This last option of 'unassigned tasks' will be discussed here.


Unassigned tasks are especially convenient when you want to create some (general) tasks without having to decide already who will pick them up later. Later on, the assignee can be changed to a colleague or a team.


Keep in mind that the functionality 'teams' is only available in our MOVE and BOOST package.


Access & dashboard

Everyone will have access to these unassigned tasks when navigating to the tasks menu, but they won't appear on anyone's dashboard since they aren't specifically assigned to someone.


Smart segment

When you navigate to Calendar > Tasks you'll find a smart segment here to easily guide you to the unassigned tasks:


It's also possible to include unassigned tasks in segments you create yourself.


Recurring events

Important is that unassigned tasks can’t be repeated. This because recurring tasks are immediately planned in the agenda and we can't do this without an assignee. First assign this task to a colleague to make it recurring.



Features available in our MOVE package or higher:


Deleting a team

When deleting a team in Teamleader Focus: 

  • The tasks that were still assigned to this team won't be deleted.
  • These tasks won't be under anyone's responsibility anymore and will be 'Unassigned'.


Projects

After you’ve added phases to your project you can add specific tasks and meetings per project phase. Important to know when adding tasks here, is that it’s not needed to choose a task assignee immediately. You can always do this later; this has the advantage to first take a look at who's available to execute the task and keep everyone happy. If you don't choose an assignee immediately, these tasks will be unassigned.


Project template

As you might know, it's possible to create a project template if you often use the same structure for your projects. If you choose to include tasks per phase in your template, you can keep these unassigned. This is especially useful when you have general phases and general tasks and you want to assign them to your colleagues later, after the project has been created.