Sharing - What's an Owner?

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What's an Owner?

When you are sharing an activity, you may want to designate one or more of your teammates as "Owners." The Owner is the person you expect to take the lead on that activity. This could mean that you expect this person to actually complete the activity, or that you would like everyone else on the team to go to this person for instruction on how best to complete it.

The Owner of any given activity is distinguished in the Team field by regular font (regular team members, on the other hand, are displayed in soft italics). S/he is also displayed first in the team field, so as you glance down your list of shared activities, you can immediately see who owns each of them.

To make a teammate the owner of an activity, click on the down arrow in the Team field to open up the Team edit box. The top portion of this window will show you the current team. Just click on the checkbox next to the teammate you would like to make the owner. If you'd like to take the activity on yourself, you can make yourself the owner.

By default, the first contact you add to an activity's team will be designated as the owner. You can always re-assign the activity to someone else at any point. If you would like to change the default behavior so that you are the owner of activities that you share (or so that no one is), you can do so in the Sharing Preferences.

When you accept an activity, you can see who has been designated as the owner. If you have been assigned the activity by the requester, you can choose to either accept the request and take the lead, or just stay on board as a team member. Alternatively, if you receive an activity that you would like to own, you can take the lead on it whether the requester has asked you to or not.