Hello, We have a bunch of entities that are associated with a user. I would like to migrate the user field to an assignees field. The “Run now” function of automations is ideal for this type of manual migration work. However, it looks like assignee’s and user do not mapping nicely to each other. …

Yeah, you’re on the right track. User field is a many-to-one relation, but Assignees are many-to-many, so you need the formula to return a collection. I think the best way to do it is using a query formula. Something like this should work: Users.filter([Public Id]=[Step 1 Time log].User.[Public Id…

I did note however that you had a filter for only those logs for a specific user. If that was you’re intent, you could just use Add Assignees with a Named user (or Assign to me, if that’s appropriate) [image] [image]

Hi Chris, That is helpful thank-you Re: assigned to me - yes this was on purpose, I am the test case :wink: Re: the above - what I have discovered, is my automation actually does work with no changes. However, the automation must take a while to run, as I’ve come back to Fibery and I have A LOT o…

Unfortunately, it’s not possible to disable notifications for when a user is assigned. We have plans to improve the notifications subsystem, but for the time being, there’s no easy fix, sorry.

No problem, it’s straight forward enough to use a relation field instead.

It’s now possible to choose whether notifications are enabled for the Assignee field (or any other ‘People’ field) [image] October 10, 2024 / takeout_box Search in basic text/email/phone Fields, People Field, Space Setup 2.0, and more Changelog Today’s release …

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It’s now possible to choose whether notifications are enabled for the Assignee field (or any other ‘People’ field)

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Migrate user field to assignee field

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