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Change the list owner or assign colleagues

Every list has one owner, the contact your client sees. Assignees are colleagues who work on the list and get its emails.

Written by Jan Alexander Jedlinski

Who can do this: anyone who can open the list.

Product: Client Portal

Where: List configuration → General for the owner, Assignees for colleagues

Every list has one list owner, the person your client sees as their contact. Assignees are the colleagues who work on the list with you and get its emails.

Change the list owner

  1. Open the list and click List configuration → General.

  2. Under List owner, select the new owner. The change saves straight away.

The new owner shows on the list as your client's contact. Depending on List header style (in List appearance), clients see their name, photo and title at the top of the list.

The List owner field

Select the new owner here. The change saves straight away.

Screenshot of the List configuration General tab with the List owner field highlighted

Assign colleagues to a list

  1. Open the list and click Assignees at the top right.

  2. Select the colleagues who should work on the list.

  3. Click Save.

You can also select colleagues under Assign colleagues when you create a list.

The Assignees dialog

The dialog lists the list owner and your colleagues. Select the colleagues who should work on the list, then click Save.

Screenshot of the Assignees dialog with the colleagues you can select highlighted

What do assignees get?

  • Access to the list, also when they're Members who couldn't see it otherwise.

  • List emails, for example when a client opens the list for the first time.

  • On new candidates, they're added as Colleagues receiving notifications, so they get that candidate's messages and requests.

Who gets emails about one candidate?

On a job submission list, each candidate has their own participants. To change them, open the candidate, click the participant avatars above the Messenger (Add or remove participants) and edit:

  • Colleagues receiving notifications: your colleagues

  • Clients receiving notifications: client contacts on this list

Search to add someone, click the x to remove them.

Participants on one candidate

Colleagues and client contacts who get this candidate's emails, in two separate fields.

Screenshot of the participants panel with Colleagues receiving notifications and Clients receiving notifications highlighted

Good to know

  • Assigning colleagues after candidates are on the list doesn't add them to those candidates. Add them as participants on the candidates if they need those emails.

  • When a colleague leaves, an Owner or Admin reassigns their lists when removing them in Settings → Users.

  • Colleagues are added as assignees automatically when they share the list, change its status, add a candidate, or mark a candidate ready or set one active.

Pro tip: Assign colleagues before you add candidates. Colleagues you assign later aren't added to the candidates already on the list.

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