{"id":12918,"date":"2018-07-17T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs2\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:06:48","slug":"finding-assigned-tasks-in-google-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/2018\/07\/17\/finding-assigned-tasks-in-google-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Assigned Tasks in Google Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScreenshotWhen collaborating as a team, it has become common practice to use the ‘Task Assignment’ feature of Google Drive to help recall take-a-ways. When leaving a comment, you can type a plus sign and a collaborator’s address and when you check the box labeled “Assign to …” and click Assign<\/strong>, Google will send an email message to that user which in effect assigns them the task. You can also assign tasks to yourself! (only one person per task though)<\/p>\n

Over time, it gets difficult to recall which documents have tasks assigned to complete. The following steps will do a search of your Google Drive for all documents which contain tasks for YOU.<\/p>\n

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    1. Click the down arrow on the right side of the Search Drive area at the top of your Google Drive (this opens the advanced search options)
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      1. Go to the last advanced search field and select\u00a0Action Items Only<\/strong>\u00a0from the Follow Up<\/strong> drop-down.\"Screenshot<\/li>\n
      2. Click Search<\/strong><\/li>\n
      3. The returned list of documents each have a number in a circle to the right of the document’s title. The number represents the total assigned tasks for you on that document.
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      4. Open the document to reveal the assignments<\/li>\n
      5. Complete tasks<\/li>\n
      6. Make everyone happy
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        When collaborating as a team, it has become common practice to use the ‘Task Assignment’ feature of Google Drive to help recall take-a-ways. When leaving a comment, you can type a plus sign and a collaborator’s address and when you check the box labeled “Assign to …” and click Assign, Google will send an email […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12931,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}