Assigning an Editor to a Job

To assign an editor, open the job's Task tab and find the Editor Assigned row in the task fields grid. This row is visible to all company roles (Owner, Admin, Project Manager) but hidden from agents and from providers working in their personal workspace. Click the Assign Editor button or the existing editor name to open a searchable dropdown listing every organization member with the EDITOR role. Type to filter by name, then select the person you want. The assignment is saved immediately via PATCH /projects/:id/assignEditor — no save button needed.

Once assigned, the editor's name and avatar appear in the row. An X button appears next to the name if you need to clear the assignment. The editor receives access to the job in their /projects/mine feed as soon as the assignment is saved. If no editors appear in the dropdown, it means no organization members have the EDITOR role — check your team settings under Organization to confirm role assignments.

The status flow for editing hand-offs works as follows: when the shoot is complete and the raw files are ready for editing, change the job status to Awaiting Editor (labeled 'editing_queued' internally). This status signals to the editor that the job is in their queue. When the editor begins working, they change the status to Editing. When editing is complete and the assets have been uploaded to the Media tab, the job is ready to deliver. Note that Awaiting Editor is intentionally not auto-advanced — this prevents the system from logging an edit-start timestamp before any work has begun.

The Editor Assigned field also appears as a filter on the jobs list: an admin can filter the list to show only jobs assigned to a specific editor, making it easy to see workload distribution across the team. The saved-views feature lets you save this as a named preset — for example 'Sarah's editing queue' — so you do not have to re-apply the filter every session.

On iOS, editor assignment is a web-only admin action in the current build. Editors working on mobile use the iOS app to view their assigned jobs on the Today screen and to review uploaded media on the Deliverables tab, but bulk assignment and role management happen via the web dashboard.