Top Menu

Jump to content
Home
    Modules
      • Projects
      • Activity
      • Work packages
      • Gantt charts
      • Calendars
      • Team planners
      • Boards
      • News
    • Getting started
    • Introduction video
      Welcome to OpenProject Community
      Get a quick overview of project management and team collaboration with OpenProject. You can restart this video from the help menu.
    • Help and support
    • User guides
    • Videos
    • Shortcuts
    • Community forum
    • Enterprise support
    • Additional resources
    • Data privacy and security policy
    • Digital accessibility (DE)
    • OpenProject website
    • Security alerts / Newsletter
    • OpenProject blog
    • Release notes
    • Report a bug
    • Development roadmap
    • Add and edit translations
    • API documentation
  • Sign in
      Forgot your password?

      or sign in with your existing account

      Google

Side Menu

  • Overview
  • Activity
    Activity
  • Roadmap
  • Work packages
    Work packages
  • Gantt charts
    Gantt charts
  • Calendars
    Calendars
  • Team planners
    Team planners
  • Boards
    Boards
  • News
  • Forums
  • Feature tour
    Feature tour

Content

You are here:
  1. Messages
General discussion
  1. OpenProject
  2. Forums
  3. General discussion
  4. Using OpenProject to manage volunteer tasks

Using OpenProject to manage volunteer tasks

Added by Andrew M over 2 years ago

Hello,

I've just come across OpenProject and trying to work out if it would meet the needs of our organisation. We are an international network and we have a team of volunteer translators who translate content for our website. At the moment we have quite a slow system (basically emailing people individually until we find somone with the capacity to take on a task) which is frustrating for staff and for volunteers! I'm just looking at OpenProject but thought I would ask here before spending a bit of time playing/demoing.

Could we:

  • assign volunteers to groups based on their language translation (e.g. English to Spanish, French to German, etc)
  • assign tasks to groups so that everyone in that group gets an email when a translation task has been added
  • allow volunteers to "accept" that task (perhaps just by changing the assignee to themselves as an individual rather than the group?)

To me this all looks feasible but just wanted to check, or ask if anyone is doing anything similar?

Thanks!
Andrew


Replies (1)

RE: Using OpenProject to manage volunteer tasks - Added by Samantha Machon over 2 years ago

Hello Andrew, 

You can create groups and assign users to them: https://www.openproject.org/docs/system-admin-guide/users-permissions/groups/
A group can be added to a project and work packages can be assigned to the group then. 

Users will be notified about a work package being assigned to them according to their notification settings: https://www.openproject.org/docs/user-guide/notifications/notification-settings/
Additionally, the users can configure email reminders: https://www.openproject.org/docs/getting-started/my-account/#email-reminders

Users can assign the task to themselves if they have the permission to do so (https://www.openproject.org/docs/system-admin-guide/users-permissions/roles-permissions/). 

Best regards
Samantha

  • (1 - 1/1)
Loading...