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Welcome to the Planner Community Blog!

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Dave Heller
Former Employee
Dec 20, 2016

Welcome to the new Planner Community Blog, we’re glad you’ve found your way here! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, and chat about what you’re working on and your team's progress from anywhere, on any device.

 

In the past year since introducing Planner, our team has worked to create the best experience possible based on your feedback and suggestions.

 

This community and blog is the next step in providing a direct line of communication to you, the customer, about what we’re thinking and what’s coming next. This blog won’t replace the official Office Blogs channel, but it will be an added way for us to connect with you. You can expect to see top-of-mind posts, behind the scenes insights into why we’ve made certain decisions regarding the product roadmap, and a place where you can ask questions and provide direct feedback.

 

Thank you for joining us! Let us know a little about who you and what information you would like to see from the team in the comments below.

 

- The Planner Product Team

 

Published Dec 20, 2016
Version 1.0

37 Comments

  • James Sutton's avatar
    James Sutton
    Copper Contributor

    I am a government cloud client.  Am very much looking forward to having access to Planner.  Anyone have any insight into when that might happen?

  • Ed Hansberry's avatar
    Ed Hansberry
    Bronze Contributor

    Glad to see continuted dev on Planner. The key issues for me are:

    1. Ability to copy a card. Scenario: I would like a card of specific tasks on a checklist that needs to get done once a month. I would copy it from a "Pending" bucket to a "Today" bucket and work on it. Retyping the checklist each time isn't practical.
    2. Increase the checklist to something beyond 20. Only 20 items is pretty small.
    3. Full Planner in Teams, so needs attachments, links, and ideally dashboard.
    4. Easier way for users to see what items are assigned to them in Teams and when they are due. Right now, if you have 20 tasks assigned to you in 5 Planners in Teams, you have no clue what is assigned to you or when it is due without going to all 5 planners.

     

    Looking forward to updates!

  • Joey Hornick's avatar
    Joey Hornick
    Copper Contributor

    Dave Heller I'm supporting a Gov client also, they are seeing the Planner tab within their Office 365 Groups however it errors out.  It would be nice for the tab not to be present if the product isn't available for the tenants.  Do we have an approximate launch date in 2017 yet for this, it would be nice to get a date in front of them.

  • Chris Shaida's avatar
    Chris Shaida
    Iron Contributor

    Would love to hear about the nature of the architectural changes to Planner to get it to fit better to Teams.  Are you adding a 'layer' above buckets to correspond to channels? Just continuing the notion of planner id = team+channel where channel planners are note xplicitly connected to each other? or?

  • Deleted Hi - the apps (Windows Universal, iOS, Android) are in development and will ship in 2017.

     

    Michael Blumenthal Glad to hear your firm is using Planner! Would love to hear feedback if possible. Planner is not yet in the gov cloud, but the plan is to get there in 2017. The process of deploying in the gov cloud has extra steps/processes that are time-consuming, which is why we didn't deploy there at GA.

  • We use Planner extensively within our consulting firm.  However, one of my clients is a local government, and they are missing out on Planner because it's not deployed to the "Gov cloud" yet.  What can you share about why that's the case and when it would come to their environment?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous

    Love using Planner for simple team projects. iOS apps to have Planner on the go would be great. I believe it's been on the roadmap for a while?