It's the holiday season again. A time of wonder. A time of joy. A time where you can offload your workload to the poor interns/articling students/contract workers/anybody else not fortunate enough to have the holidays off. A good way of assigning work to these poor souls is by creating hotlist tasks and assigning the tasks to them.
In order to assign other users tasks, you must first be able to access their hotlists. Here is how you would do this:
- In Administrator, go to File > Users. (You can also do this in Maximizer by going to File > Users, just make sure you have the right to modify User/Group setup).
- Select the user you want to assign the tasks to, and select preferences.
- Under the Access to Hotlist section, make sure that you, or a group you belong to, has full access to the user's Hotlist.
The Calendar/Hotlist tab is also the place where you would set access rights to their calendar too, so you can see whether or not they actually do have time to do your work before whatever plans they have at night. Nobody likes to stay in the office really late around Christmas. You don't want to be Major Buzzkill, because nobody likes Major Buzzkill.
So after you've enabled yourself to assign hotlist tasks to the user(s), when creating a hotlist task, their names will appear in the "Assigned To" drop down list. Names appearing in this list are users who have set full access to their hotlist to you or a group that you belong to. After completing entering their task, click OK and the Hotlist task will appear in their hotlist.
So after you've assigned all your work to other people, go home and enjoy the holidays. Here are some simple steps to have a good holiday:
- Chill out, be happy. Forgive and forget!
- Give generously, there are many people in need, especially this year.
- Give your Mom a big hug the next time you see her.
Happy Holidays!