Assignees, color tags, activity labels, and filters help a busy Goals board answer practical questions: who owns the work, where it belongs, and what needs attention. They organize the same goal without replacing its article or changing its identity.

The board groups current work by status while keeping its activity and assignee visible.

Assign Accepted Responsibility

A goal can have one assignee: a participating person, a space role, or Unassigned. A role is useful when responsibility belongs to a group whose membership can change.

The assigned person and current members of the assigned role can edit the goal's title and article, change status, move it between board and backlog, and delete it. They do not gain permission to reassign it, change its tag or area, or manage columns solely through assignment.

Reporters, space owners, and goal managers can change the assignee. Use the people-and-roles picker to search for the right person or role, and choose Unassigned when nobody has accepted ownership. Reading, commenting on, or saving a goal does not assign it to someone.

Keep Color Meanings Simple

Each goal can have one color tag. Boards begin with Urgent, Medium, and Minor; a space can adopt additional named colors when they serve a clear purpose.

A small shared vocabulary is easier to use than several colors with overlapping meanings. Keep detailed priorities or tradeoffs in the goal article.

Put Work Near Its Context

An activity label identifies the goal's working area and uses that activity's color. When the label is a navigation link, selecting it opens the activity's Goals view. Reporters and managers have placement controls where applicable and can move goals to another accessible, published activity in the same space or to the space root.

Moving a goal outside the activity you are viewing makes it leave that board. Its article and discussion remain attached; open its destination or the broader space view to find it. An archived activity cannot receive new or moved goals, and private-area access still determines who can see the work.

Build A Focused View

Open Filter to combine assignee and color-tag selections across the board and backlog. Desktop quick-assignee circles provide a shorter route to frequently useful choices.

Useful combinations include:

Within one family, multiple choices mean any of those choices can match. Across families, both must match: selecting two people and Urgent shows urgent goals assigned to either person. The selected filters stay with the Goals route through navigation and refresh.

The combined panel keeps assignee and color-tag filters together; opening it does not change the visible plan.

Changing an assignee or tag may make the goal leave the filtered view. Nothing was deleted; it simply no longer matches. Clear that filter or use Clear all to return to the wider plan.

Search And Ordering

Use Search for a known title, reference, keyword, or part of the goal's content. Search respects your current area and access, and works with the selected assignee and tag filters.

Assignee and tag filters allow dragging and inline placement. Text search pauses both. Clear the search term to restore ordering while keeping your useful filters.

Board search is a focused lookup, not a complete inventory of an unlimited backlog. It shows a limited set of matches, and backlog matches depend on the rows loaded into the workspace. If an older goal is missing, clear search, browse farther into the backlog, or open its existing reference before concluding it is gone. Done Goals has its own search over completed history.

Who Can Change These Details?

A reporter, space owner, or goal manager can change a goal's assignee, tag, and supported area placement. Assignment alone grants editing and movement of the goal but leaves those coordination decisions with its reporter or managers. Space-wide column and tag definitions remain management controls.

Common Questions

Can a goal have several assignees or tags?

No. Choose one person or role and one color tag. Use the article and discussion to describe the wider group helping with the work.

What does No tag mean in a filter?

It finds goals with no color classification. In a goal's editing controls, the same label removes its tag.

Why did a goal disappear after I assigned it?

It may no longer match the active assignee filter. Clear the filter to find it again.

Can I reorder only the goals I am filtering?

Yes. Assignee and tag filters preserve ordering controls. Clear text search if dragging is unavailable.

For a connected planning pass, follow Organize the board and backlog.