## Description
Auto-assignment was skipping the 7-day staleness check entirely for
inboxes that don't have an assignment policy attached. Those inboxes
would pull unassigned conversations of any age off the backlog and hand
them to agents — including conversations untouched for months — while
the activity log still credited "Default Policy" for the assignment.
This makes the default behaviour match what that label implies: with no
policy configured, conversations with no activity in the last 7 days are
now excluded, the same window a freshly created policy uses.
## Type of change
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
## Checklist:
- [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
- [ ] I have performed a self-review of my code
- [ ] I have commented on my code, particularly in hard-to-understand
areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
- [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream
modules
## Linear ticket
-
https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-7137/assignment-v2-backlog-flush-overloads-agents
## Description
Assignment policies now skip stale unassigned conversations
automatically. Each policy carries an age threshold (defaults to 7
days), so auto-assignment only picks up recent backlog instead of
draining very old, forgotten conversations. The threshold is
configurable per policy and can be cleared to assign conversations
regardless of age. Previously this control existed only on Enterprise
capacity policies (`exclude_older_than_hours`); it now lives on the
assignment policy itself, so every V2 inbox benefits without needing a
capacity policy.
## Type of change
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
## How Has This Been Tested?
- Local UI flows
## Screenshots?
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## Checklist:
- [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
- [ ] I have performed a self-review of my code
- [ ] I have commented on my code, particularly in hard-to-understand
areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
- [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream
modules
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Co-authored-by: Sony Mathew <sony@chatwoot.com>
## Linear reference:
https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-4649/re-imagine-assignments
## Description
This PR introduces the foundation for Assignment V2 system by
implementing assignment policies and their association with inboxes.
Assignment policies allow configuring how conversations are distributed
among agents, with support for different assignment orders (round_robin
in community, balanced in enterprise) and conversation prioritization
strategies
Fixes # (issue)
## Type of change
Please delete options that are not relevant.
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality not to work as expected)
- [ ] This change requires a documentation update
## How Has This Been Tested?
Test Coverage:
- Controller specs for assignment policies CRUD operations
- Enterprise-specific specs for balanced assignment order
- Model specs for community/enterprise separation
Manual Testing:
1. Create assignment policy: POST
/api/v1/accounts/{id}/assignment_policies
2. List policies: GET /api/v1/accounts/{id}/assignment_policies
3. Assign policy to inbox: POST
/api/v1/accounts/{id}/assignment_policies/{id}/inboxes
4. View inbox policy: GET
/api/v1/accounts/{id}/inboxes/{id}/assignment_policy
5. Verify community edition ignores "balanced" assignment order
6. Verify enterprise edition supports both "round_robin" and "balanced"
- testing the flows after enterprise folder deletion
## Checklist:
- [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
- [ ] I have performed a self-review of my code
- [ ] I have commented on my code, particularly in hard-to-understand
areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
- [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream
modules
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Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranavrajs@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
