# Owner

# Owner

You can assign an owner to each card. The owner usually refers to the person that has actionable work to do on this card or that is responsible for reaching the goal of the card.

> Being able to assign multiple people can introduces confusion and a lack of clear ownership, sometimes resulting in work not getting done because of "I thought the other person would do it.". Only allowing one owner per card is a conscious decision based on our real-life experience. For project management and task ownership **sharing is not caring**.
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> If a task involves two or more people there are two mechanisms you can use:
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> 1. You can either create a [hero card](https://manual.codecks.io/hero-cards/) and add each persons task as a sub card
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> ![Hero Card](https://manual.codecks.io/_astro/hero-card.KPPjx4An_1EEGkt.webp)
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> 2. Or you can use reviews as a hand-over mechanism. Since a review is conversation-bound, the two participants can have a conversation to make sure all necessary information is present.

## Assigning owner

![Owner picker in sidebar](https://manual.codecks.io/_astro/picker.C5090LCD_1DixBD.webp)

Open the properties sidebar by clicking on the top button to the right of an opened card. You can also click on the user portrait icon of a card and it will open the sidebar and highlight the owner input area.

![Card showing a portrait](https://manual.codecks.io/_astro/portrait.Cjmx5VjC_Z1oBwCY.webp)

You can use the user input field to type the name of an user and to select them from the list or click on one of the proposed username buttons. To remove any owner use the 'None' button.

The list of potential owners is restricted to the people that have access to the card based on the deck it is in. If you don't see a person make sure to put the card into a deck that you share with that person.

You can also use this **shortcut** to assign a card to yourself: hover your mouse cursor over a card and press the `spacebar` to assign it to yourself. If the card was already assigned to yourself, pressing the space button will set the card to in-progress.

You can also use the [bulk action bar](https://manual.codecks.io/bulk-actions/) to set the owner of multiple cards at once. By default new cards don't have any owner set, unless the Deck's [Template Card](https://manual.codecks.io/decks/#automation) sets one. A card you create from your [Hand](https://manual.codecks.io/hand/), or that you choose to add to a Hand while creating it, gets you as owner if it has none yet.

![Bulk Action](https://manual.codecks.io/_astro/bulk-action.aAkQ5-jk_Z1vx0gS.webp)

You're also able to drag and drop cards into the corresponding owner swim lane if your current view is sorted by owner.

Finally there's the [Quick Settings](https://manual.codecks.io/quick-settings/) to modify the owner as well as other properties.