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Assignee or Owner field sync

Assign work items such as User Stories to Users.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Assignee attribute is visible on sticky notes that are:

  • Configured with the Work Item Sticky function on the Team Board (Note: this applies only to Jira Software and Rally Software ALM Connections only)

  • Configured with the Risk Sticky function on the Team Board

  • Configured with the Work Item Sticky function on the ART Risk Board

The Assignee attribute is visible in the bottom left corner of a sticky note.

Note: At the top of the Assignee list, you'll find users that are members of the same piplanning.io Team. You can however, assign any User registered within your piplanning.io instance simply by using the Search field.

Synchronize piplanning.io User with the ALM Connection

To allow the Assignee attribute to be synched on the sticky notes with the integrated ALM tool, please have Users follow the following instructions.

IMPORTANT

To enable the Assignee field synchronization with your ALM tool, the users piplanning.io Users account and their ALM (Jira or Rally) account must be linked. This can be done in the Users Profile settings in piplanning.io.

User Profile showing a warning sign when the piplanning.io User Profile is not linked to their ALM account.

User account not linked with a Jira or Rally user account

In case the user has not linked their piplanning.io account with their ALM (Jira or Rally) account, the following warning message is shown next to the users name in the Assignee dropdown list.

Unknown ALM User

In case the assignee is set in the ALM tool, but the user is not known in piplanning.io, the following message is shown.

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