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103 VOTE
Status Launched
Categories Assign
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 1, 2021

Option to assign through rules or keep assignment even if assignee is Out Of Office/Busy

When a teammate’s status is set to Out of Office, provide an option to allow new conversation assignments from rules and prevent unassigning existing conversations when new activity occurs.

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  • Guest
    Aug 27, 2025

    It is an inbox level setting https://help.front.com/en/articles/2076#inbox_settings_section Pretty great :)

  • Guest
    Aug 19, 2025

    I don't see how or where this is available, can you provide more details?

  • Guest
    Aug 18, 2025

    Apparently this was now launched, but I still don't see such an option. See screenshot. What am I missing?

  • Guest
    May 12, 2025

    We want our team members to keep their emails assigned most times when they put an out of office up. They put out of offices up when they are traveling for work and will just be slower to respond. Or their managers handle the assignment from their assigned list. This would help so much!

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Make Automatic Unassign when OOO Optional

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Some users like using the snooze function. But we may have a bit of trouble if something is snoozed but reappears while the assigned person is Out of office status. Then the thread is unassigned and we can lose track of it. Not a big emergency but...
over 2 years ago in Assign 2 Launched
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OOO status should allow re-assignment but no new assignments

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OOO status to allow conversations that were once assigned to a teammate to be re-assigned, but no new conversations to be assigned.
over 2 years ago in Teammate availability 2 Launched