How do I automatically assign an issue to a new user based on status

[John Leitner]

I am using the Content management template to manage an editorial calendar. How do I configure a workflow to auto-assign the issue to myself as the Editor after one of my writers has moved the issue from "Draft" to "In Review."

[Mike Rathwell · Accepted solution]

@John Leitner , I have the same scenario as you and likely for the same function. There are a couple of ways you can go, one ugly and hard coded and one that is more elegant and flexible.

The ugly hard coded way is to use a post  function to set the Assignee field to your username hard coded in the post function on transition.

The more elegant way is to create an Editor custom field. That way, you can set the assignee to whomever is in that Editor field and allows for more than one editor. Additionally, you might make another field to be one of two things; a "writer" field so that if you have revisions to request, you can re-assign it to them or use a hidden field (not on the screen) to set "previous assignee" and swap 'em back and forth via that method.

[John Leitner]

Perfect- thank you for your help @Mike Rathwell!