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  2. Collaborate with teams and organizations
  3. Assign posts or comments to team members

Manage tasks in Assignments

After you’ve assigned posts or comments to yourself or team members from Streams, they appear in a consolidated view in Assignments , where your team can collaborate on them. You can view and respond to assigned posts, reassign or resolve assignments, and send message assignments to third-party tools such as Salesforce and Marketo.

Plans: This feature is not available to Free plan members. To gain access to this feature, follow the steps to change your plan here.

Enterprise users can use Hootsuite’s automation tool to automatically assign posts using keyword-based rules. See Automate assignments and tags.

The steps in this article apply to the following:

  • Tweets
  • Facebook posts, comments, and private messages
  • App assignments

Reassign tasks

Tip: You can reassign messages to different teams or team members, either individually or in bulk.

  1. Select an assignment from the list.
  2. Select the arrow next to Resolve, and then select Assign to or Assign to me.
    The Resolve drop-down menu, showing the Assign to and Assign to me options
  3. Enter an assignee and a contextual note (optional), and then select Assign.

Reassign tasks in bulk

You can select all or multiple assignments to reassign at the same time.

  1. Select the check box at the top of the list to select all assignments under the current filter. Or, point to the avatar in individual assignments and select the check box that appears.
    assignments area with check boxes for assign to all and assign to an individual highlighted
  2. Select Assign to.
    confirmation area showing items selected and assign to and mark as resolved options
  3. Enter an assignee and a contextual note (optional), and then select Assign.

Resolve tasks

When messages no longer need attention from your team, resolve them to remove them from the assignments list.

  1. Select an assignment from the list.
  2. Select Resolve.
  3. Enter a resolution note (optional), and then select Resolve.

Resolve tasks in bulk

  1. Select the check box at the top of the list to select all assignments under the current filter. Or, point to the avatar in individual assignments and select the check box that appears.
  2. Select Mark as resolved.
    confirmation area showing items selected and assign to and mark as resolved options
  3. Enter a resolution note (optional), and then select Resolve.

Send tasks to installed apps

In Assignments, you can send message assignments to third-party tools (such as Salesforce and Marketo) for further collaboration with team members.

You must install third-party apps to Hootsuite before you can use them in Assignments. To learn more, see Install or uninstall apps.

Send a task to an app

  1. Select an assignment from the list.
  2. Select More in the assignment’s detail.
  3. Select one of your installed apps from the list.
    A sample assignment, showing options in the More drop-down menu

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