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MatthewLi1
MatthewLi1
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June 2, 2024
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Need a way to show Primary Assignment Name in a Column for a task view or report

  • June 2, 2024
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My team needs to see from the project task view easily who the primary assignment is on tasks with multiple assignees. Does anyone have any recommendations for how to best do that?

 

I'm able to show a column that shows the primary assignment ID but was surprised to see there wasn't a way to show the primary assignment by name, I don't expect anyone to memorize the 30-digit ID number for every user in the system.

 

 

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Best answer by lgaertner

Hello Matthew,

 

to get the corresponding name to an ID field in text mode, you can simply remove the ID-part and replace it by :name like this for the field assignedToID:

 

assignedTo:name

 

Regards

Lars

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lgaertner
lgaertnerAccepted solution
Level 9
June 3, 2024

Hello Matthew,

 

to get the corresponding name to an ID field in text mode, you can simply remove the ID-part and replace it by :name like this for the field assignedToID:

 

assignedTo:name

 

Regards

Lars

MatthewLi1
MatthewLi1Author
Level 3
June 3, 2024

I tried this change before posting this question but all of the columns are blank when I use primaryAssignment:name

I can't include the assigned column without blurring out the names but I can confirm all of these tasks have people assigned to them.

 

MatthewLi1
MatthewLi1Author
Level 3
June 3, 2024

try assignedTo:name instead of primaryAssignment as @lgaertner  suggested. 
I think he is right. You should be getting this:

with this:

displayname= linkedname=assignedTo namekey=view.relatedcolumn namekeyargkey.0=assignedTo namekeyargkey.1=name querysort=assignedTo:name valuefield=assignedTo:name valueformat=HTML

please note this field is available straight from the wizard, no text mode is required!

Unless you have another view in mind, than please share that


I see, thanks for this clarification. I was looking for the primary assignee to show up so when I read assignedTo:name I thought it was just going to show all the assignees instead of the primary assignee which I was looking for. I think the whole primary assignment field options were confusing me.

 

Thanks so much for your answers @rafal_bainie & @lgaertner !!!

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