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# Transfer Assignment Ownership

In some cases, a labeler may leave a project or become unavailable before completing their assignment. Instead of adding a new labeler who has to start from scratch, you can transfer assignment ownership so another labeler can continue the work from where it was left off.

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This feature is available only in team workspaces and is disabled by default. Reach out to **<support@datasaur.ai>** if your team needs this feature.
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## Transfer assignment

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You cannot transfer an assignment to a member who was previously assigned to the project and then unassigned.
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In a project, go to **File > Settings > Assignment** to manage assignments. Only workspace admins can update project assignments.

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If assignment transfer is enabled, an additional column, **Transfer work to**, appears.

* Only labeler work can be transferred.
* Eligible roles: **Labeler** and **Labeler & Reviewer**.
* Reviewer assignments do not require transfer. Reviewers share the same work, so assigning a new reviewer allows them to continue progress immediately.

## Limitation

Transferring work may affect analytics, especially inter-annotator agreement ([IAA](/workspace-management/analytics/inter-annotator-agreement.md)). Label ownership is derived from document ownership, so after a transfer, labels created by the previous labeler are attributed to the new labeler. An info icon appears next to the labeler name to indicate that a transfer has occurred.

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This can affect IAA results because agreement is calculated between labelers. When labelers do not work on the same document from start to finish due to transfers, the results may be skewed.