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Role Assignments

Workflow Runs, Workflows

Updated March 7, 2024

With role assignments, you can dynamically assign tasks to users in different roles on your team.

This is useful for larger teams where different people might complete a task depending on their role, or if you want to assign different team members to tasks in different Workflow runs, or if you want to dynamically invite external users to complete a specific task or tasks.

Users: In order to add Role Assignments to Workflows, you must be an Administrator or a Member who has been given ‘edit’ access by your Administrator.

Example use cases

Your employee onboarding process will be completed by one of your HR team, but this may vary each time depending on their availability. Using the members form field, you can dynamically assign one of the team to the relevant tasks, once you run the Workflow
You have a series of podcasts planned and you have a different client co-hosting with you on each one. Using the email form field you can dynamically assign selected tasks to whichever email address you fill out in your Workflow runs. Filling out their email address effectively invites your client into your Workflow run as a guest, where they can complete their tasks
You are listing a new property for sale and you need to involve a number of colleagues in the process at different points. Since you are the one running the Workflow for the team, the first few tasks are dynamically assigned to you as the Workflow runner, before you can then hand off the process to the rest of your team

How to use role assignments

There are 3 ways in which you can assign a role to a task:

Workflow runner

You can use the Workflow runner variable to automatically assign tasks to the user who manually runs the Workflow. This means that the person assigned to the task/s will be dynamically assigned based on who has run the Workflow.

Note: The Workflow runner will not be assigned if you run your Workflow via automation or integration.

In the example below, the first two tasks and the last task, have been assigned to the Workflow runner. When someone manually runs the Workflow, those tasks were assigned to that person automatically.

Members Form Field

Using the members form field allows you to select a user from either a list of all members in your organization, or from a specific group of members, like a group of Sales, Marketing, or Human Resources staff.

When you run the Workflow, use that members form field to select a member from that specific group in the dropdown that appears. This will then dynamically assign that user to the required tasks.

For example, when onboarding a new employee, you might assign an HR Manager for most of the tasks, and assign a Manager as the Approver, as shown in the example below:

Note: Only admins and members can be assigned in this way, Guests (Internal) or Guests (External) cannot.

To set this up first add a members form field to your Workflow in edit mode and give it a descriptive label, like “Account Manager”, “Approver” or “HR Manager”. The default group in this field is the “All Organization group“, but you want to choose the appropriate group for this specific process, from the dropdown list. Learn more about creating groups.

Next, select all the tasks you would like to assign this role to. Click “Assign”, and choose the members field role you want to assign.

When you run the Workflow, select a team member from the list shown in the member’s field, and it will dynamically assign that user to your tasks.

Email Form Field

Using the email form field allows you to dynamically assign an email address to tasks in a Workflow run. This is useful for inviting guests (external collaborators) into your Workflow runs at the points you need them.

In the example below, we’re using the client email address to assign the client to the approval task, once their email address has been entered into the Workflow run.

Note: If you invite guests to your Workflow runs, be sure to consider using task permissions, to only show them the tasks you’d like them to work on and not the whole run.

Start by adding an email form field into your Workflow. For employee onboarding, this might be the “Referee email address” or “Employee email address”. Next, assign the desired task to the email field role and publish changes to your Workflow.

When you run the Workflow, enter an email address into the form field you added earlier. This will invite the person as a Guest (External) in your organization, and give them access to the Workflow run to complete their assigned task/s.

Pro tip: Members fields and Email fields can be auto-populated with data from other apps by using an automation, via Zapier, when using Workflow run links or when you run multiple Workflows from a CSV file.