# Assign multiple assignees on one task

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/assign-multiple-assignees-on-one-task/1176>\
**Category:** Product Ideas\
**Tags:** tasks\
**Created:** [27 March 2017 19:07 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/assign-multiple-assignees-on-one-task/1176 "2017-03-27T19:07:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rebecca\_McGrath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/rebecca_mcgrath/32/74508_2.png) [@Rebecca\_McGrath](https://forum.asana.com/u/Rebecca_McGrath)\
**Post date:** [3 August 2022 10:20 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/assign-multiple-assignees-on-one-task/1176/634 "2022-08-03T10:20:40Z")

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Hi all, and thank you for your continued feedback. As @Marie mentioned back in May, we appreciate you sharing these use cases and the problems you’re hoping to solve, to help Asana understand the motivations behind this feature request.

Our Research and Development teams were actively exploring these pain points to understand how Asana might enable better visibility and control over resource management and capacity planning.

With that said, we have just announced the launch of a new Custom Field type → People 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We believe this field will help to resolve a lot of the pain points users are experiencing in this thread.

You can check out all the details of this new People Custom Field on the post below ⬇

> [@Introducing People Custom Field! busts\_in\_silhouette](https://forum.asana.com/t/introducing-people-custom-field/187166):
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> Hey Asana Community, I’m Ben, a product marketer on the Track Anything team, here to share some exciting news on feature updates! When tracking information in Asana, custom fields give you the flexibility to track all different types of data in a standard way. These standards make it easier to filter and sort your projects, build seamless automations, and create compelling charts with powerful insights. Starting this month, we’re excited to roll out our newest custom field type option to your A…

We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback and how you will use this new custom field in the comments over on the main post!

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