Parts of an assignment

When you need to schedule work to be done on content in Inspire, you must first create a project. Then you can assign work related to the project. The component or content doesn't have to exist before you can create an assignment. You also don't have to know who you want to assign the work to when you create an assignment.

You must provide the following information to assign work in a project:

Activity

• This is where you identify the work to be done or the goal of the assignment
• You can select one of the following default values:
  • Edit Content
  • Publish Content
  • Write Content

Inspire administrators can add options to the Activity list or update the default values.

Follow the steps in Add a project activity configuration.

State

This is where you select the status of the assignment. States are designed to be used in the following order:

1. To Do
2. In Progress
3. Completed
4. Cancelled

When you create an assignment, you can select only To Do or In Progress.

Assignment properties

Component options

When you create an assignment, if you include multiple components in the assignment, you have the following options:

• Create a separate assignment for each component
• Keep all the components in this single assignment

If you choose to create an assignment for each component you included, all assignments that Inspire creates will have the same activities, states, and properties as the original assignment.

You only see this option when you create an assignment by clicking Create.

• You can create an assignment without adding components. If you do this and update the assignment later to add multiple components, you will not see this option.
• You do not see this option when you are updating an assignment by clicking Update. Even if you are updating an assignment with no components included, and you add multiple components, when you click Update, all components are added to the existing assignment.