MicrosoftMicrosoftDoesn't Portfolio allow inclusion of only the Project based plans though, so no support fo the Basic plans? Will that eventually change during the transition?
Hi Petr, not making excuses for the feature but a basic Planner plan doesn't have a concept of a timeline in it, like a premium plan does with a schedule. Basic plans have a series of dates, no formal start and end date like a project would in premium. It's basically a series of tasks with no 'interdependencies', no total % complete, which makes displaying data that's available in the Portfolio service, and related roadmap, difficult. The Portfolio feature as we understand it is really designed to display project schedules and their information ('a portfolio of projects').
It would be interesting to think through how a basic Planner plan with less structured work could related to a more formal project in premium, and determine a way to show them together.....
Thanks for the answer. The reason why I am asking in fact is, that the article mentions unified backends / endpoints of a Basic and Pro plans. So what actually that unification means? I prefer Planner simplicity and much more useful card design (checklists, attachements) and chat. In the past, we have developed PBI report, which sampled Planner on a daily basis, so we've got history / deltas, and also parsed the checklists for due dates. From unification I really expected the merge of good things from Planner and Project in one streamlined interface.
