Invisibly assign users to cards without sending notification

[supremesyntax]

Feature request:

In our daily workflow we would like to be able to assign users without sending out a notification or the need to share a board. (assignment should be invisible to assigned user at first)

• First use case is for personally monitoring tasks without the need of sharing boards.
• Second use case is to create a board with cards and assign users and share the board only when everything is finally ready to be shared (better for larger projects).

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[juliusknorr]

First use case is for personally monitoring tasks without the need of sharing boards.

It would make sense to not notify about own actions of course. 👍

Second use case is to create a board with cards and assign users and share the board only when everything is finally ready to be shared (better for larger projects).

Assigning users that have no access to the board seems to be somehow wrong from a UX point of view. That might lead to confusion when users think that they assigned a card to someone, but that person isn't aware of it, because the board is not shared.

[supremesyntax]

First use case is for personally monitoring tasks without the need of sharing boards.

It would make sense to not notify about own actions of course. +1

oh you got me wrong on this one... both use cases are based on assigning users without notifying them until i want them to be notified.
So personally monitoring tasks means monitoring tasks with users assigned only visible for me.

I agree in the UX pov.
Of course there needs to be some hint or indicator that a user is assigned but board is not visible to this user(s) and needs to be shared to be visible (maybe greyed out user icon or with a striked out eye icon overlay).

Background is this:
A manager wants to create a large board for a project with dozens of cards. Every card should be assigned to different user(s).
As soon as the board is shared with a group - because that is mandatory to assign users later - the whole board (all cards) are visible to the users with no users assigned to the cards.
So the user(s) get notifications about the board being shared but doesn't see his name anywhere.
The manager now has to assign users to the already shared and visible cards one by one and the user(s) have to check if they are assigned periodically.

Better solution in this case would be the second point in my first post.

Better/alternative solutions welcome!

[9662]

Just write the name of the to-be-assigned user in the content (or title) of the card.

[juliusknorr]

As this sounds like a nice feature, the requests for this are quite low. Currently there are no plans to implement such a feature. Thus I will close this ticket for now. This does not mean we don't want this feature, but it is simply not on our roadmap for the near future. If somebody wants to implement this feature nevertheless we are happy to assist and help out.

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