About Assignments for Legacy Change Data

Assignees can delegate their assignments to another user who is in the current list of assignees related to the change object. However, if the current list of assignees has only one person (the context user), then the Delegate Assignment command opens the Search page and the context user can search for a user to delegate their assignments. The assignee must be in the associated responsible change organization or responsible design organization and have the role of Design Engineer, Senior Design Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, or Senior Manufacturing Engineer.

Once a user delegates assignments to someone else, then the delegated assignee is responsible for carrying out the tasks that the original assignee was responsible for completing. When an assignment is delegated, the delegated assignee receives a notification that includes which items are being delegated.

The change object owner can make changes to assignees. This person can add or remove assignees or reassign tasks, including reassigning a task assigned to multiple users to a single user. Also, if a task is inappropriately delegated by any user, the change object owner can override the delegation and reassign the task to someone else.

The following rules apply when assignments are delegated:

• If a task is inappropriately delegated, the change object owner or Responsible Design Engineer can delegate the assignment to someone else.
• Assignments from single/multiple users can be delegated to a single assignee.
• The current assignee can delegate their own assignments to any single user.
• The owner of the change object can delegate assignments of one or more users to a single user.
• Once you delegate your assignments to another user, the Delegate Assignment command is dimmed since you are no longer an assignee for the change object. However, if you are the owner of the change object, the Delegate Assignment command is not disabled, since the owner continues to be associated with the change object by virtue of coordination responsibilities.
• If you delegate assignments from the Assignees page, then all the proposed changes and markups that were assigned to you will be assigned to the new assignee. If however, you want to split your proposed changes and delegate them to different people, the you must invoke the Delegate Assignment command from the Proposed Changes page.

The delegation of assignments can take place across all lifecycle states of the change object.