# Assign users & task status

In this section, we’ll explore how to assign tasks to stakeholders and track their progress using the comments thread. Monitoring task status with terms like ‘Resolved', ‘Open', etc. ensures clear communication and efficient collaboration, especially when managing inputs from multiple stakeholders. You can achieve this with EDITable, which can help your team with accountability and improve workflow efficiency.

### Assign tasks

1. Let's add a column-level comment and assign it as a task. Select a column and click on **Add a comment.**
2. Enter a comment. Click on the 'Assign a user' dropdown.
3. From the dropdown, select the desired user.
4. After selecting the user, click **Post** to post the comment. The status is set to 'Open'.
5. The task gets assigned.

### Task status

1. By default, on assigning a task, it is set to 'Open'. To change the task status, click on the 'three dots' and select **Resolve thread**.
2. The thread is marked as resolved, as shown below.
3. Resolved tasks can be reopened if required by clicking on the 'Undo' icon. Alternatively, replying to any resolved thread will automatically make it open again.
4. Comments added in the comments column can also be assigned as tasks. Select a comment and assign it to a user.
5. By clicking on the arrow highlighted, you can expand/collapse the task status and assignee columns. Based on the selection in the comments editor, these columns get populated automatically.
6. The status and assignee can be viewed in the columns as below. These columns are available when you enable the comments column and add comments to it.

In the next section, we'll cover how you can track task status and changes for all comments.


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