Working with Assignments

After you create a topic, you can begin to create assignments that detail the work that must be completed to accomplish the topic’s goal. Topics and assignments share a 1:1 relationship in that you can link an assignment to only a single topic at any one time. However after you create the assignment, the Collaborate app allows you to move that assignment to a different topic as needed.

n In this release, Avid supports a maximum of 100 assignments per topic. Although this limit is not strictly enforced, organizations could see a performance impact if users exceed this maximum assignment count.

The following illustration and table describe the different areas of an assignment.

	Button or Function	Description
1	Filter Button	Similar to the Filter button that is available in the Project Planner, this button displays a list of filters that you can use to narrow the contents of the Media Container. For more information, see Working with the Planner Filters Tab.
2	Info Button	Allows you to open or close the Assignment’s Info panel. When you first open an assignment, the Info area is hidden by default. You can click the Info button to display or hide the Assignment Info panel. As long as you do not close the Collaborate app, this setting persists throughout your MediaCentral Cloud UX session
3	Priority and Status Menus	For more information, see Assigning the Priority and Status.
4	Assignment Title	Displays the name of the current assignment. You can click this field to change the name of the assignment.
5	Due Date	Allows you to assign or change the assignment’s due date. You can also export the assignment details to a calendar application. For more information, see Exporting to a Calendar.
6	Description and Metadata	Similar to topics, assignments allow you to configure contacts, resources, metadata, and other values. For more information, see Editing an Assignment.
7	Collapse	When the Info panel is open, you can click the Collapse button to hide the panel.
8	Panel Divider	You can change the amount of space allocated to the Info panel by dragging the divider to the left or right. If you adjust the size of the panel, this change remains consistent across different MediaCentral Cloud UX sessions. If you want to decrease the Info panel to smaller than its minimum size, you can use the Collapse button to temporally hide it from view. The size of the panel is saved in your local browser cache, so the change remains consistent across different MediaCentral Cloud UX sessions (on a per user / per workstation basis).
9	Refresh	If another user is actively updating the same assignment, you can click this button to update the display and view the changes. Alternatively, the app updates automatically when you switch from one area to another — such as switching between an assignment and its linked topic. This refresh button does not update the status of the Tasks area of the app.
10	Find an Asset	This field allows you to search for the names of any media asset that you have added to media container. If your topic or assignment includes a note, the search also looks for a match in the note text. Partial word searches are not supported. If for example your asset includes the word "Interview", a search for "Interview" would return the asset, but searches for "inter" or "view" would not.
11	Media Container	Allows you to add assets that are related to this assignment. For more information, see Working Within the Media Container.
12	Sort Controls	Similar to other areas of MediaCentral Cloud UX, the Assignment Container allows you to organize your assets by familiar categories such as Date Added, Name, and others. You can further refine your display by selecting an option from the Ascending / Descending menu.
13	Thumbnail Slider	Allows you to adjust the size of the images in the Media Container. For more information, see Using the Thumbnail Slider.
14	Tasks area	Allows you to create tasks that are related to this assignment. For more information, see Creating Tasks.

Additional Information on Assignments

This section includes the following processes: