To assign an owner to an incident:

1. From the Incident List, select the unassigned incident you want to assign an owner to.
2. Click Accept. WFDSS updates the Owner Name with your name and gives the message, "Incident updated successfully".
3. Select the incident again.
4. Click View Information. The Edit Incident Information page appears.
5. Click Transfer Ownership. The Transfer Ownership page appears.
6. To quickly find the person you want to transfer ownership to, enter their last name in the User Name field and click Apply Filter.
7. From the User List, select the person you want to transfer ownership to.
8. Click Transfer Ownership. The Edit Incident Information page reappears with the name of the new incident owner displayed.

The incident owner is responsible for ensuring that decisions related to the incident get documented, reviewed, and approved. (See Assigning a Decision Team to an Incident.)

In This Section Assigning an Owner to an Incident

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