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Assign issues not only to a user but to a department
Bugtrack assigns responsibility to resolve issues on a per user basis. Organizations, however, often work per departments and it should be possible to organize bugtrack users in a hierarchy and also to allow e.g. a head of department to see in "my stuff" not only his/her open issues, but, the team's. Half of the work is done since users can be organized per groups, but, there should be the possibility e.g. to define a head or manager of each group. It should also facilitate mechanisms of delegation e.g. passing all open issues to a colleague of the team.
ID
334
Category
Configuration
  Management
Author
Miguel Berrozpe
Date Created
10/15/2012 3:00:01 PM
Date Updated
2/5/2015 8:06:30 AM
Status
New Idea
Score
40
Promoted By
Hagn, KonradMirreza, MehrdadHeuer, Boris
Miguel Berrozpe
Comments
Miguel Berrozpe 10/15/2012 6:48:13 PM
May I add: in "Assign To" field, selecting first a department and then a user, would also narrow down the amount of users in the pickup menu, which is useful for large organizations or projects. For instance in our project, for incident management (not IT development), we have >100 users organized perhaps in a dozen departments or companies. Each "user group" is, in fact, such a department or company; and incident resolution must often be tracked within a group, more than solely a person. If "Assign To" would be first to a user group and then to a person, the user interface would be much simpler as regards filtering, follow-up, reporting, etc.
Mirreza, Mehrdad 2/5/2015 8:06:30 AM
We use the workaround that we define special users as placeholder for departments and give those users the email address of the department manager. He/She get's informed and then assigns the ticket to employees.
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