Auto assign board owner

[Rosina_Ankomah]

Hi!

Have a question regarding board automations.

I have set-up an automation for my team which automatically creates a new board based on a status change. However, everytime a new board is created by the automation, I get assigned as a board owner.

Is it possible to ensure that the person who triggers the automation gets assigned as a board owner instead? Or for example the person who is linked to the item via a ‘person’ column?

Thanks in advance!

Best wishes,

Rosina

[mark.anley (Green Llamas Consulting)]

Hi @Rosina_Ankomah - I see you posted these elsewhere in the community which I posted a response to. It may not be the answer you were looking for, but we use a separate account for automation ownership (if a spare account exists).

Auto assign board owner based on people column

Hi @Rosina_Ankomah - At this time there isn’t a way to set who the owner of a board is via automation. The owner will always be set to the owner (creator) of the automation. What we have done in the past is create a separate account to run the automations (like a bot account) and set the automation ownership to that account (if you have a spare license). Also, make sure that when you create the new board via automation to ideally have it set to a main and not private (if that works for you pe…

[jon (Jonathan Banks)]

Have there been any developments here? We’d like to assign different owners when boards are created.

[CandyJE (Candy Johnson-Eich)]

Any updates on this? We generate new project boards via automations for a team of project managers, and I’d like to have board ownership assigned based on the PM column.