I have a saved search for completed tasks by my direct reports. If there is a task with no assignee that gets completed then it is omitted from these reports since they are not assigned. Would be great if there were a filter for “Completed By”.
That would also fix any issues with a person other than the assignee completing a task so they could get proper credit.
Obviously this is all fixed by properly assigning tasks but when you are creating subtasks within a project, it’s very easy to create a bunch of tasks to be worked on and not think to assign them.
I also need this. I want to search for and review what someone was able to complete today, this week, whether it was unassigned, assigned to someone else, or assigned to them.
The tedious work around is to never complete a task without first reassigning or assigning it to yourself.
and that workaround is tedious indeed. especially when working from a shared project with repeating tasks. in such a case, you’d need to assign the task to yourself, complete it, wait for the rescheduled task to appear, unassign that task from yourself, then unfollow the new task so as not to receive superfluous notifications for any and all activity on future iterations of the task. Otherwise team members’ inboxes become so utterly clogged with irrelevant updates as to make the inbox effectively useless.
My team could absolutely use this! There are certain tasks the need to be completed by the appropriate person, and I would like to be able to track who marks them complete via reports and custom fields.
We need this badly to keep an eye on productivity. I don’t care much about who created the task or who it was assigned to but I DO WANT TO KNOW WHO COMPLETED IT
Yes! This would be so helpful! I work at a university. We frequently have students that are OOO. We have staff take over their work, but we don’t want to reassign it because we still want to remain on their plate should completion dates change (as they frequently do in higher ed). But, as the project manager, I want to see who is completing the work, even if it’s not assigned to them.
One workaround would be a rule in each project that says when a task is marked complete to add a comment with who the task was assigned to (assignee), and who completed it (rule triggerer). This will create a record showing if someone else had completed the task.
Additionally, I would have that same rule reassign the task to the person who completed it so that you could capture any unassigned tasks or subtasks in the suggested report that @Geoff_Manning mentioned in the original post.
As an extension of this suggestion, if you want to maintain the assignee as the originally designated assignee, you. could create a custom people field and have a rule set that to the person who completed the task. Currently, I think this can only be done using AI, which is a little resource-wasteful for such a small request that really should be exposed in native rules (since rule triggerer is already available for assignee and description/comment actions, as shown in the sample rule screenshot above).
