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title: Assign a Visual Task Board card to a user
description: Assignees represent ownership of task cards and the associated records. Each task card can have one primary assignee and multiple additional assignees.
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release: australia
product: Visual Task Boards
classification: visual-task-boards
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Working with Visual Task Board cards, Using Visual Task Boards, Visual Task Boards, Configure UIs and portals, Configure user experiences]
---

# Assign a Visual Task Board card to a user

Assignees represent ownership of task cards and the associated records. Each task card can have one primary assignee and multiple additional assignees.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

You can filter the visible tasks on a board to show only tasks assigned to a certain user. Assignees appear on cards as avatars.

\[Omitted image "AssigneeOnCardHelsinki.png"\] Alt text: Task card assignees

When a card changes lanes, all the assignees receive an email notification.

For flexible and guided boards, the primary assignee corresponds to the underlying task's **Assigned to** field. For example, on a board created from the Incident table, if you add Joe Employee as the primary assignee for a card, the associated incident is assigned to Joe. Note that assignment rules on the associated table may restrict who you can make the primary assignee of a card. If you attempt to assign a task card to a user in a way that violates an assignment rule, a notification appears and the assignment does not take place.

**Note:** Assignees are not automatically granted access to the board. Only members can access the board.

## Procedure

1.  Do one of the following actions.

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**Add an assignee from the quick panel**

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1.  Drag a user's avatar from the quick panel directly to the task card.
2.  Drop the avatar in the **Primary** or **Additional** drop zone.


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**Add an assignee from the card details**

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1.  Open the card details for a task.
2.  Click the assignees tab \(\[Omitted image "AssigneesTab.png"\] Alt text: Assignees tab\).
3.  Click **Add Primary Assignee** or **Add Additional Assignee**. The **Add Primary Assignee** option is not available if there is already a primary assignee.
4.  Select a user.
5.  Close the card detail pop-up window.


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</table>    The system sends an email notification to inform the new assignee of the change.


**Parent Topic:**[Working with Visual Task Board cards](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-user-interface/visual-task-boards/r_TaskCards.md)