# Issue with assignees filter

**URL:** <https://community.vikunja.io/t/issue-with-assignees-filter/4204>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** filter\
**Created:** [8 December 2025 11:56 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/issue-with-assignees-filter/4204 "2025-12-08T11:56:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jmpen](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jmpen](https://community.vikunja.io/u/jmpen)\
**Post date:** [8 December 2025 11:56 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/issue-with-assignees-filter/4204/1 "2025-12-08T11:56:46Z")

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Hi,

we are trying to work with Vikunja, but one of the features most important to us we can’t get to work.

If I create a filter for myself “assignees = myusername” everything works fine.

But when I create a filter in ordner to see the tasks assigned to someone else “assignees = colleague1”, the filter shows nothing, even though that person has tasks assigned to him.

While trying to figure out what the issue might be, I noticed that I can assign a task to myself while creating it using the @-tag, but with my colleagues username that doesn’t work, so my guess is that these issues might be related.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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**Author:** ![kolaente](https://community.vikunja.io/user_avatar/community.vikunja.io/kolaente/32/5_2.png) [@kolaente](https://community.vikunja.io/u/kolaente)\
**Post date:** [8 December 2025 21:48 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/issue-with-assignees-filter/4204/2 "2025-12-08T21:48:59Z")

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Can you verify that your colleague really has these tasks assigned?

What do you mean by assigning with the @ tag? The quick add magic?

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**Author:** ![jmpen](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jmpen](https://community.vikunja.io/u/jmpen)\
**Post date:** [9 December 2025 15:56 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/issue-with-assignees-filter/4204/3 "2025-12-09T15:56:34Z")

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Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, I can see that he has various tasks assigned. Also, if I assign tasks to myself, they show up in the respective filter immediately; with him, it does not work.

The quick add magic is what I meant, yes.

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**Author:** ![kolaente](https://community.vikunja.io/user_avatar/community.vikunja.io/kolaente/32/5_2.png) [@kolaente](https://community.vikunja.io/u/kolaente)\
**Post date:** [9 December 2025 20:50 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/issue-with-assignees-filter/4204/4 "2025-12-09T20:50:34Z")

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Are you sure that the username you typed is correct?