I would like to automatically assign an entity to the person creating it.
Use case: “Employee adds an Expense, it is automatically assigned to them”
If this is not possible, I will create a separate field called “Creator override”, and then take this as the source of truth if set, and otherwise default to the ‘creator’. Rather than having a “User” field, as currently when creating an entity we have to make 7 clicks to assign the user and nobody got time for that 
/Laurence
Yet, it is possible via Formula, like this. Formula can be access via … near field that you want to update
Perfecto! Thanks
Oh my god! This comment save me a couple of hours (or days)! Thanks a lot.
Sorry to update this from so long ago, I don’t see a similar function to auto assign on update (e.g. a User changes a task from To Do to In Progress)
You can use an automation similar to the one @mdubakov posted, but choose to trigger on entity updated (instead of created) and pick the state field as the one to be monitored.
Then add a filter to only execute if the state is In Progress.
Yup I tried that but I could not see a way to assign to the current user even in a formula, only to assign to a specific user. I have probably missed something?
