Hand an Inbox Queue to a Teammate

Give a member or manager the Facts to confirm or Duplicates to resolve queue without making them an admin.

Overview

Get help with your brain's queues without handing out admin

Two Inbox queues keep your brain accurate: Facts to confirm and Duplicates to resolve. Owners and admins work them by default. If you want an assistant or office manager to help, you can hand them one or both queues. They do not become an admin, and they do not see anything they could not already open.

Tip

What you will accomplish: Hand a queue to a named teammate, see who already handles each queue, and take a queue back when you no longer need the help.

Who This Is For

OwnerAdmin

Owners and admins of a business workspace hand queues over. You can hand a queue to a member or a manager. Admins and owners already work every queue, so there is nothing to hand them. A personal workspace has no one to hand a queue to.

Step 1: Hand Over a Queue

1

Open the person in Members

Go to Team, Members and click the person you want to help.

Their profile opens. Find the Inbox duties section.

2

Turn on the queue

Turn on the switch for the queue you want them to work.

Facts to confirm
Confirm facts the brain found.
Duplicates to resolve
Decide whether two things are the same.

The change takes effect right away. If the switch does not stay on, you will see a message saying why.

Step 2: What Your Teammate Sees

The queue appears in your teammate's Inbox, with its count, and the view's header says Handed to you by and your name.

Only what they can already open
They only see items from documents they can already open. Anything else stays in your queue.
Facts: confirm as found
They can confirm a fact exactly as the brain found it, or hide it with Not right. Changing a value stays with owners and admins.
Duplicates: keep separate
They can keep two records separate or put the pair off with Later. Combining records stays with owners and admins.
Some items need you
If an item touches something they cannot see, Confirm says "This one needs an owner or admin." Leave it for an owner or admin.

Step 3: Check and Take Back

On the Facts to confirm or Duplicates to resolve view, owners and admins see a Who else handles this link. It opens Members showing everyone who has that queue.

To take a queue back, open the person in Members and turn its switch off. A queue is also taken back automatically when the person leaves your workspace or becomes an admin or owner. It does not come back on its own if they later return to their old role.

Good to Know

Tip

Handing over a queue never widens what someone can read. To let a teammate work more of a queue, give them access to the access groups whose documents the items come from.

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