I can't seem to get "Assignee" to stick on an idea card

[Kelly Lillis]

Do assignees need to be Creators? to show in a board view?

[Valentin Cardozo]

Hi @Kelly Lillis

That depends on the configuration of your project.
I think that by default it is not necessary that the assignees are creators, since they can be assigned in an idea as Contributors.

[Kelly Lillis]

any thoughts on why it would not be keeping them as assignees??

I went through all of the ideas and added an assignee (Most are contributors, one is a creator).

Then when I switched to a timeline view that I have setup, with assignee as one of the fields I want to show on the cards, it is only showing the ones assigned to the creator.

The other cards show blank/no assignee circle, and

when I click back to the list view they all say unassigned again. It's driving me nuts

[Sebastian Pechhold]

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Product-Discovery-questions/Assignee-got-resetted-all-the-time/qaq-p/2402508#M2109

There is a nice workaround. Create an new field @PEOPLE. We called it DEVELOPER. You can @ more than one assignee. 

May this could work for you

[Kelly Lillis]

Yes that worked thank you!!!!

[Rohan Swami]

@Sebastian Pechhold thanks for helping with the workaround!