Working with Assignments
An assignment is a request to other users (or user groups) to contribute to the content in some way. There is usually a timescale for the work to be completed.
Assignments offer several benefits:
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Assignments are tracked in Paligo, so there is an audit trail of who worked on them and when, see Assignment Workflow and States and Workflow Status.
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You can view the progress of assignments in the Planner or Dashboard, see Track the Assignment Progress.
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You can set Paligo to change the status of your content automatically when a review assignment starts and ends, see Assignment Settings.
There are different Assignment Types, including reviews, contributions, and translations.
Also, you can have multiple assignments for the same content. This can result in several users trying to access the content at the same time. When this happens, the Contributor Editor displays a warning telling the user that the topic is already checked out by someone else. That user's avatar is shown to the right of the topic.
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When you Add Users and Create a User Group , it is the User Types that determine which types of assignments you can allocate (see Create Assignments). Also, if you use Permissions, you can restrict access to certain folders or components.