User Roles allow you to:

With user roles, you can add user roles to your lead type or process type and set your workflow steps to be assigned to that role, regardless of which user is in that role on the individual process. 

If we assign a specific workflow step to a user role, the task will be assigned to the user in that role on our individual process.

(In this case, Matt is the property manager for this process, so any tasks for the property manager will be assigned to him. But if Zach were the property manager on a renewal for another property, the workflow task for that process would be assigned to him.)

Here's a closer look at the assignee roles:

If a user role isn't set on a process, any tasks assigned to that role will default to the assignee of the process.

To define the team roles for a process type, first navigate to the User Roles & Assignment settings page. (Settings > User Roles & Assignment)

First, add your user roles to the list.

Then, click on each role to choose which pipelines and processes each should apply to. (Some roles will be involved in some pipelines and processes and not in others).

These will now appear as options as you are triggering a new process in this process type and you can select the users responsible for this particular process.

Now you can add auto-assignment rules to your user roles, to automatically assign your user roles based on property group.

(Note that these features below are only included on our newest Operations plan. It is not available on Growth, the legacy Operations plan, or our other legacy plans.)

Scroll down to select your default assignees if none of the rules you will add apply to a property. Note that you will likely need to scroll to the right to see all the user roles!

Then add your additional auto-assignment rules based on property groups. (Note that these auto-assignment rules will only apply to processes and not pipelines.)

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You can also set advanced user and role assignments by clicking "change", then "Use all rules in order (Advanced) on the blue banner at the bottom of the User, Roles and Assignment page. The advanced settings allow you to have multiple pods and roles assigned to a process for a property that is linked to those pods. For example, if you have Squad A and Squad B and Property 123 is added to both property groups, the advanced settings will check the roles for both pods and ensure that all roles are assigned on the process, both from Squad A and B. The default assignment rule will only assign the roles of the pod that appears first in the user, roles and assignment list.
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For the process owner role (which is essentially the person who is finally responsible for the process and the one to whom any tasks are assigned that aren't assigned to other roles), you can set it for each process type instead of having one person fill that role for every process type.

This setting can be found in the Process settings, under Users, Roles, & Assignment.

You have 3 options to choose from for the process owner:

Once your automatic assignment is set up, whenever you start this process one at a time, in bulk, or automatically, the process will use these rules to select assignees for each role. It will look at the rules from top to bottom, using the first rule that applies.

You can update the assignees on individual processes when starting them (click "overview automatic assignment" as picture above) or afterwards in the process.

Now that you've added your team member roles and defaults based on property groups, be sure to assign the tasks in your process workflow to the correct team member roles.

When deleting a user who is assigned to a role in an auto-assignment rule on a process, the processes and roles they are assigned to will be updated to the user you select to replace them.

LeadSimple will then reassign all the assignment rules to the selected reassignment user and you can update the processes as needed.