Ability to choose if a notifications is sent when someone is assigned in a People column

[KLS13 (Kirsty)]

Hi,

It would be great to be able to control the person assigned notification at the people column level on a board.

An example is we have a board that contains multiple people columns, 1 for a requestor, 1 to assign who the new workspace owner will be, 1 to assign who will complete the task.

When we assign the requestor and the workspace owner we do not want to trigger notifications to those people, however when the person to complete the task is assigned we would like them to be notified.

I am aware we can turn notifications off at a user or board level however this one size fits all approach does not fit this use case.

[Lucas1 (Lucas)]

Hey posted the same request, before I found yours and then another for the same idea: Mute People-columns not meant for assigning tasks

Select a People column to act as "Assignee" column, allowing for more function from additional people columns

Just like you can select if a date column should act as a deadline, I would like to select if a People column should act as an “assignee” Column. Currently, any and all People columns result in pulling items through to My Work. There are use cases for People columns that act as “cc’s” or work on automation. i.e. “Notify the person in the Account Manager column if the Status changes to Stuck.” In this case, the Account Manager might not have a deliverable or task due on this item, but they shou…